The paper attempts to critically engage with the idea of integrative medicine as a marker of pharmaceuticalization of Ayurveda in the recent decades. It examines what it means to say 'integrative' medicine using the metaphor of language from philosophy of science. Drawing upon fieldwork with Ayurveda practitioners, the paper also discusses the ramifications of integrative medicine in the curren...

The principle of substance stability – the feedback principle – is applicable to all biological systems. It boils down for different temporal hierarchies to the following: during the formation (self-assembly) of the most thermodynamically stable structures at the highest hierarchical level (j), e.g., the supramolecular level, in accordance with the second law, Nature spontaneously uses predomin...

XSEAD is an online platform supporting networks of creativity and innovation across science, engineering, art and design. Through networked co-curation and community participation, the XSEAD portal collects and distributes a growing repository of integrative art/science exemplars. This collection is designed to help articulate the past successes and future prospects of integrative undertakings ...

The efficiency of Integrative Gestalt Therapy on the decrease of undesired types of behaviour measured by the AAMD scale (Part two) in children with intellectual disabilities has been demonstrated in the authors' earlier works. The object of this work is to state the effects of the same therapeutic method on the intellectual aspects of social competence in the children with difficulties, as mea...

In this article we pursue two objectives. First, we refine the concept of responsible leadership from an upper echelon perspective by exploring two distinct styles (instrumental and integrative) and thereby further develop the understanding of the newly emerging integrative style. Second, we propose a framework that examines the micro-foundations of political corporate social responsibility (CS...

1 Please address all the correspondence to this author. 50 Memorial Drive. E53-347. Cambridge, MA 02142 Tel: (617) 253-0468 ABSTRACT This paper describes a method that allows us to enhance our understanding of the difference between designing modular systems and integrative systems. Modular systems are those whose interfaces are well defined and shared with only a few other systems. Integrative...

More and more cancer patients use complementary therapies. As the majority of patients do not disclose their use of complementary therapies to their oncologists, they expose themselves to possible detrimental effects from the therapies due to drug interactions. To meet the needs of patients and health care professionals on valid information on complementary therapies, the collaborative research...

Social perception commonly employs multiple sources of information. The present study aimed at investigating the integrative processing of affective social signals. Task-related and task-free functional magnetic resonance imaging was performed in 26 healthy adult participants during a social perception task concerning dynamic visual stimuli simultaneously depicting facial expressions of emotion...

S1 Fraction of integrative network edges with and without physical support . . . . . 4 S2 Degree distributions of integrative networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 S3 Structural properties of integrative networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 S4 Network motifs of integrative networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 S5 Prediction of novel functional...