Pledging lifelong loyalty to an ingroup can have far-reaching behavioural effects, ranging from ordinary acts of ingroup kindness to extraordinary acts of self-sacrifice. What motivates this important form of group commitment? Here, we propose one especially potent answer to this question-the experience of a visceral sense of oneness with a group (i.e., identity fusion). In a sample of British ...

The year was 1975; the first issue of Journal of Clinical Microbiology (JCM) was published. The advertisers included Microbiological Associates, Clinical Sciences, Inc., and General Diagnostics. Fifty U.S. dollars bought a 1-year subscription. The subjects of the published articles included Proteus morganii, a novel satellite test for Haemophilus spp., and rapid hippurate hydrolysis testing of ...

While ageing is commonly associated with exponential increase in mortality with age, mortality rates paradoxically decelerate late in life resulting in distinct mortality plateaus. Late-life mortality plateaus have been discovered in a broad variety of taxa, including humans, but their origin is hotly debated. One hypothesis argues that deceleration occurs because the individual probability of ...

L4All is a pilot system that records and shares learning pathways through educational offerings with the aim of facilitating progression of lifelong learners from Secondary Education, through to Further Education and on to Higher Education (HE). The focus is on helping those post-16 learners who have traditionally not participated in HE. The L4All system allows learners to access information an...

[T]hriving on osteopathic medicine’s complexity and challenges, he was a unique and forward thinking master and author of his craft, palpatory diagnosis and manipulative treatment. Teaching, writing and world-wide interdisciplinary outreach were lifelong mantras. Phil, as we all called him, occasionally reminded me that we were first introduced in 1966 at the AOA annual meeting in New York City...

65 Transformative Learning Factors to Enhance Integral Healthy Organizations Chanchai Thavinpipatkul, Lifelong Education Department, Faculty of Education, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand Archanya Ratana-Ubol, Lifelong Education Department, Faculty of Education, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand Suwithida Charungkaittikul, Lifelong Education Department, Faculty of Education...

Grace, A. P. (2009). Resilient sexual-minority youth as fugitive lifelong learners: Engaging in a strategic, assetcreating, community-based learning process to counter exclusion and trauma in formal schooling. In J. Field (Ed.), Proceedings of the Lifelong Learning Revisited: What Next? Conference of the Scottish Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK (4,...

Nowadays, the new technology revolution brings a fast progress for pedagogy. The popularization of cloud computing, edge computing and 5G network provides opportunity development mobile education, which makes lifelong education fragmented possible. Meantime, worldwide use artificial intelligence (AI) big data are changing research domain educational technology, will bring novel study in individ...