Medical and Scientific Studies on the Apparitions in Medjugorje

2018 ◽  
pp. 171-193
Author(s):  
Daniel Maria Klimek
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Philosophical Question ◽  
Visual Functions ◽  
Clear Line ◽  
Psychological Studies

The chapter presents and analyzes the major medical and scientific studies that have been performed on the Medjugorje visionaries and their apparitions. Observing behavioral and psychological studies, neuroscientific studies, ocular and visual functions, auditory and voice functions, sensitivity and imperviousness to pain, the distinctions between a state of hypnosis and the apparition state in the visionaries, the chapter concludes with the results of the scientific studies: eliminating any form of hallucination, psychosis, epilepsy, neurosis, or catalepsy as an explanation for the apparitions. The chapter also considers the philosophical question of whether the visionaries are having a “subjective” or an “objective” experience during their apparitions, seeing a combination of characteristics when they enter the state of ecstasy that does not convey a clear line of delineation between a subjective and objective experience.

Blurring the Lines

2021 ◽  
pp. 29-54
Author(s):  
Daniel R. Brunstetter
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Just War ◽  
Use Of Force ◽  
The State ◽  
Special Forces ◽  
Terrorist Groups ◽  
The Government ◽  
Peace And War ◽  
Clear Line ◽  
Western Democracies

Law enforcement is often seen as the de facto, and relatively pure, alternative to contemporary just war. If we are not at war, then the more restrictive law enforcement is the viable paradigm. This chapter interrogates two assumptions underlying this view. It begins by demystifying the unwritten assumption that the liberal law enforcement paradigm associated with Western democracies is the idealized foil to just war. Using France, whose postcolonial legacy complicates the turn to the Western liberal paradigm as an illuminating case, the chapter explores how domestic warlike violence creates a state of fractured order—the violence and potential for abuses of power that permeate society as the government seeks to balance security and individual rights. The chapter then turns to the transnational context to challenge the view that there exists a clear line between the state of war and the state of peace. Mali serves as a paradigmatic case to illustrate how the effectiveness of law enforcement is curtailed in spaces of contested order where heavily armed terrorist groups challenge the authority of the state, thus prompting a turn to Special Forces and drones to restore order. In both contexts, the chapter identifies a shift away from the restrained norms that typically govern the use of force in law enforcement to more warlike uses of force that blur the lines between peace and war. The chapter concludes with a reflection on how this shift might inform the ethics of limited force, which lies between law enforcement and just war.

scholarly journals Legal Regulation of Cryptocurrency Emission and Allocation: Trends and Prospects

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 55-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Egorova ◽  
A. V. Belitskaya
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
The State ◽  
Philosophical Question ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
The World ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
The Russian Federation

Recently, the legislation on cryptocurrencies has been rapidly developing both in foreign countries and in the Russian Federation. The paper analyses trends and prospects of legal regulation of cryptocurrency emission and allocation, represents various approaches to this issue in the international arena. The author provides us with a thorough analysis of recent trends in the development of legislation on the emission and allocation of cryptocurrencies in the world, substantiates the theses that states are constantly seeking to settle the digital realm. By defining the legal nature of cryptocurrencies and referring them to a particular object of legal regulation, the state streamlines and systematizes the rules that will be applied to mining and ICO. Whether the market is interested in such regulation is a philosophical question, but the state as a sovereign cannot afford to recognize (the lack of regulation should be treated as a tacit recognition in this case) the existence of cryptocurrency as an alternative to the national payment unit.

The Marxist Theory of the State

1982 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 129-143
Author(s):  
Graeme Duncan
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Philosophical Question ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Bourgeois Society ◽  
The Subject

Marx did not approach the state in answer to some such broad and abstract philosophical question as: What is the state? Nor did he offer a full sociological or historical or analytic account of state institutions and functions, and there are hence clear and substantial dangers in extrapolating to all or most conditions an account which is, in large part, specific to bourgeois society. Failing a comprehensive and formal treatise on politics and the state, Marx's own discussion consists of a number of scattered and not altogether consistent general observations and some detailed investigation of the role and character of the state in particular historical situations. It seems sensible, then, to begin an elucidation of his account of the state with a comment on the nature of his interest in the subject. Why did he need a theory of the state? At what points does it become important to his explanatory and his revolutionary doctrines?

The Marxist Theory of the State

1982 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 129-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme Duncan
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Philosophical Question ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Bourgeois Society ◽  
The Subject

Marx did not approach the state in answer to some such broad and abstract philosophical question as: What is the state? Nor did he offer a full sociological or historical or analytic account of state institutions and functions, and there are hence clear and substantial dangers in extrapolating to all or most conditions an account which is, in large part, specific to bourgeois society. Failing a comprehensive and formal treatise on politics and the state, Marx's own discussion consists of a number of scattered and not altogether consistent general observations and some detailed investigation of the role and character of the state in particular historical situations. It seems sensible, then, to begin an elucidation of his account of the state with a comment on the nature of his interest in the subject. Why did he need a theory of the state? At what points does it become important to his explanatory and his revolutionary doctrines?

scholarly journals Prognostic factors of functional results of surgery for idiopathic (primary) epimacular membranes: morphology of outer and inner layers of the macula. Part 3

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-109
Author(s):  
S. G. Toropygin ◽  
S. V. Nazarova ◽  
H. Dawarah ◽  
A. N. Maslov
Keyword(s):  
Optical Coherence Tomography ◽  
Prognostic Factors ◽  
Functional Results ◽  
The State ◽  
Optical Coherence ◽  
Visual Functions ◽  
The Third ◽  
Results Of Surgery

The third part of the review (for the first part, see ROJ 2020; 13 (2): 99–104, for the second part — ROJ 2020; 13 (4): 105–110) discusses the structure of the outer and inner layers of normal macula in optical coherence tomography, their pathomorphology as well as its impact on the state of visual functions in epimacular membranes (EMM).

scholarly journals Functional results of surgical treatment of retinal detachment

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-162
Author(s):  
O. E. Ilyukhin ◽  
M. A. Frolov ◽  
K. V. Ignatenko
Keyword(s):  
Blood Flow ◽  
Visual Acuity ◽  
Surgical Treatment ◽  
Retinal Detachment ◽  
Photoreceptor Cells ◽  
Functional Results ◽  
Scleral Buckling ◽  
The State ◽  
Visual Functions ◽  
Outer Segments

The article analyzes the state of patients visual acuity after successful surgical treatment of retinal detachment. On the basis of gathered data, it was concluded that in case of detachment of the macula only in 50% of cases it is possible to increase visual acuity to 0.4 and higher. Restoration of visual functions continues for at least 6 months after the operation and is determined by the restoration of the structure of the outer segments of the photoreceptor cells. During this time, it is advisable to conduct drug therapy aimed at normalizing blood flow and functional activity of the retina. Visual functions recovery continues for at least 6 months after the operation and is connected with the restored structure of the outer segments of the photoreceptor cells. Important prognostic factors of central vision restoration in the postoperative period are visual acuity before surgery, duration of existence and height of macular detachment. Data on which of the methods of surgical treatment of retinal detachment allows to achieve higher visual acuity are contradictory. There is practically no data on the comparison of the effect on visual acuity of scleral buckling and vitrectomy in the long-term period, in patients with phakic eyes and with artiphakia. On visual acuity after fitting detachment of the macula may affect macular edema, epiretinal membrane formation and retinal folds, and edema of the peripapillary optic nerve head, progressive deterioration of blood flow in the basin of the central retinal artery, short posterior ciliary arteries and ophthalmic artery. It is believed that these factors are significantly more pronounced after scleral buckling than after vitrectomy. Some indicators of optical coherence tomography correlate with visual acuity after surgical treatment of retinal detachment: the state of the articulation line of the external and internal segments of the photoreceptors, as well as the state of the external limiting membrane.

Practical Picture Processing

1974 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 338-339
Author(s):  
T. A. Welton
Keyword(s):  
Radiation Damage ◽  
Coherence Length ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Coherent Radiation ◽  
The State ◽  
Energy Spread ◽  
Electron Micrograph ◽  
Picture Processing ◽  
Molecular Skeleton

Various authors have emphasized the spatial information resident in an electron micrograph taken with adequately coherent radiation. In view of the completion of at least one such instrument, this opportunity is taken to summarize the state of the art of processing such micrographs. We use the usual symbols for the aberration coefficients, and supplement these with £ and 6 for the transverse coherence length and the fractional energy spread respectively. He also assume a weak, biologically interesting sample, with principal interest lying in the molecular skeleton remaining after obvious hydrogen loss and other radiation damage has occurred.

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