Acupuncture – a national heritage of China to the world: international clinical research advances from the past decade

Historic monuments are the most public and recognized forms of commemoration. In Canada, as around the world, many monuments have come under fire recently for celebrating a vision of the past that is no longer palatable to large segments of the population. The heroes and events they enshrine have been denounced by many as tributes to racism, yet they are valued by others as aspects of our collective history and a celebration of our national heritage. Both these positions gloss over the complexity of the historical act of raising monuments and interpreting their historical meanings. Monuments in Canada, like all forms of commemoration, are reflections of the historiographical and methodological trends contemporary to the discipline of history at the time of their creation. Changes in methods and interpretations have thus also affected their meaning over time. Thus, monuments are not straightforward representations of history but, instead, layered expressions of historiography in physical form. Ascribing to them singular meanings obscures the complexity of the societies that constructed them and simplifies their connections to public life.

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WHEN MEMORY REPEATS ITSELF: THE POLITICS OF HERITAGE IN POST CIVIL WAR LEBANON

International Journal of Middle East Studies ◽

10.1017/s0020743808080902 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 40 (2) ◽

pp. 314a-314a ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lucia Volk

Keyword(s):

Archaeological Site ◽

Community Identity ◽

National Unity ◽

United Nations Educational ◽

Cultural Organization ◽

The Past ◽

National Heritage ◽

The World ◽

Shared Humanity ◽

Identity Based

In 2005 the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization accepted Lebanon's archaeological site of Nahr al-Kalb into its Memory of the World Programme, turning it from national heritage into a globally memorable text. I argue that it is not the content of the commemorative inscriptions but the mode of repeated commemoration that makes it possible to reinterpret potentially divisive markers of Lebanon's past into icons of national unity and a shared humanity. By focusing on the intersection of public monumentality, repetition, and the construction of community identity based on the logic of resemblance, I show that governmental elites at times of political transition need to make public interventions into the past to bolster their legitimacy, new commemorations are confined by rules and conventions of public memorializing, and the logic of resemblance inherent in commemorative processes can be used to convert a fragmented history into a memory of unity and strength

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Exploring the Power and Promise of In Silico Clinical Trials with Application in COVID-19 Infection

Sudan Journal of Medical Sciences ◽

10.18502/sjms.v16i3.9697 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Abdelrahman H. Abdelmoneim ◽

Safinaz I. Khalil ◽

Hiba Awadelkareem Osman Fadl ◽

Ayesan Rewane ◽

Sahar G. Elbager

Keyword(s):

Clinical Trials ◽

Clinical Research ◽

In Silico ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Human Society ◽

Significant Development ◽

The Past ◽

Pubmed Database ◽

The World ◽

Long Time

Background: COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically engulfed the world causing catastrophic damage to human society. Several therapeutic and vaccines have been suggested for the disease in the past months, with over 150 clinical trials currently running or under process. Nevertheless, these trials are extremely expensive and require a long time, which presents the need for alternative cost-effective methods to tackle this urgent requirement for validated therapeutics and vaccines. Bearing this in mind, here we assess the use of in silico clinical trials as a significant development in the field of clinical research, which holds the possibility to reduce the time and cost needed for clinical trials on COVID-19 and other diseases. Methods: Using the PubMed database, we analyzed six relevant scientific articles regarding the possible application of in silico clinical trials in testing the therapeutic and investigational methods of managing different diseases. Results: Successful use of in silico trials was observed in many of the reviewed evidence. Conclusion: In silico clinical trials can be used in refining clinical trials for COVID-19 infection. Keywords: in silico, clinical trials, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, vaccine How

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A basic introduction to image processing using NIH-Image as a model

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100169699 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 52 ◽

pp. 392-393

Author(s):

John Mansfield

Keyword(s):

Image Processing ◽

Digital Image ◽

Image Acquisition ◽

Digital Instrument ◽

Novice User ◽

Nih Image ◽

The Past ◽

Digital World ◽

The World ◽

Instrument Control

Advances in camera technology and digital instrument control have meant that in modern microscopy, the image that was, in the past, typically recorded on a piece of film is now recorded directly into a computer. The transfer of the analog image seen in the microscope to the digitized picture in the computer does not mean, however, that the problems associated with recording images, analyzing them, and preparing them for publication, have all miraculously been solved. The steps involved in the recording an image to film remain largely intact in the digital world. The image is recorded, prepared for measurement in some way, analyzed, and then prepared for presentation.Digital image acquisition schemes are largely the realm of the microscope manufacturers, however, there are also a multitude of “homemade” acquisition systems in microscope laboratories around the world. It is not the mission of this tutorial to deal with the various acquisition systems, but rather to introduce the novice user to rudimentary image processing and measurement.

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Psychology from Egyptian, Arab, and Islamic Perspectives

European Psychologist ◽

10.1027/1016-9040.2.4.356 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

pp. 356-365 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Fouad A-L.H. Abou-Hatab

Keyword(s):

Professional Identity ◽

21St Century ◽

The West ◽

Islamic Perspective ◽

National Heritage ◽

Western Psychology ◽

The World ◽

The One

This paper presents the case of psychology from a perspective not widely recognized by the West, namely, the Egyptian, Arab, and Islamic perspective. It discusses the introduction and development of psychology in this part of the world. Whenever such efforts are evaluated, six problems become apparent: (1) the one-way interaction with Western psychology; (2) the intellectual dependency; (3) the remote relationship with national heritage; (4) its irrelevance to cultural and social realities; (5) the inhibition of creativity; and (6) the loss of professional identity. Nevertheless, some major achievements are emphasized, and a four-facet look into the 21st century is proposed.

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On the Symbolism of Rain in A Farewell to Arms

University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature ◽

10.33195/jll.v2i2.82 ◽

2018 ◽

Keyword(s):

Research Tool ◽

The Past ◽

The World ◽

Farewell To Arms

This paper critically analyzes the symbolic use of rain in A Farewell to Arms (1929). The researcher has applied the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis as a research tool for the analysis of the text. This hypothesis argues that the languages spoken by a person determine how one observes this world and that the peculiarities encoded in each language are all different from one another. It affirms that speakers of different languages reflect the world in pretty different ways. Hemingway’s symbolic use of rain in A Farewell to Arms (1929) is denotative, connotative, and ironical. The narrator and protagonist, Frederick Henry symbolically embodies his own perceptions about the world around him. He time and again talks about rain when something embarrassing is about to ensue like disease, injury, arrest, retreat, defeat, escape, and even death. Secondly, Hemingway has connotatively used rain as a cleansing agent for washing the past memories out of his mind. Finally, the author has ironically used rain as a symbol when Henry insists on his love with Catherine Barkley while the latter being afraid of the rain finds herself dead in it.

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Profilometry. Using Corneo-scleral topography for scleral lens fitting

The Eye ◽

10.33791/2222-4408-2019-4-19-22 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 21 (128) ◽

pp. 19-22

Author(s):

Gregory DeNaeyer

Keyword(s):

Ocular Surface ◽

World Wide ◽

Contact Lenses ◽

The Past ◽

The World ◽

The Future ◽

The Way

The world-wide use of scleral contact lenses has dramatically increased over the past 10 year and has changed the way that we manage patients with corneal irregularity. Successfully fitting them can be challenging especially for eyes that have significant asymmetries of the cornea or sclera. The future of scleral lens fitting is utilizing corneo-scleral topography to accurately measure the anterior ocular surface and then using software to design lenses that identically match the scleral surface and evenly vault the cornea. This process allows the practitioner to efficiently fit a customized scleral lens that successfully provides the patient with comfortable wear and improved vision.

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Aftershocks

10.23943/princeton/9780691172330.001.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Seva Gunitsky

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Regime Change ◽

International System ◽

Political Legitimacy ◽

Great Powers ◽

Past Century ◽

The Past ◽

Sudden Rise ◽

The World ◽

National Borders

Over the past century, democracy spread around the world in turbulent bursts of change, sweeping across national borders in dramatic cascades of revolution and reform. This book offers a new global-oriented explanation for this wavelike spread and retreat—not only of democracy but also of its twentieth-century rivals, fascism, and communism. The book argues that waves of regime change are driven by the aftermath of cataclysmic disruptions to the international system. These hegemonic shocks, marked by the sudden rise and fall of great powers, have been essential and often-neglected drivers of domestic transformations. Though rare and fleeting, they not only repeatedly alter the global hierarchy of powerful states but also create unique and powerful opportunities for sweeping national reforms—by triggering military impositions, swiftly changing the incentives of domestic actors, or transforming the basis of political legitimacy itself. As a result, the evolution of modern regimes cannot be fully understood without examining the consequences of clashes between great powers, which repeatedly—and often unsuccessfully—sought to cajole, inspire, and intimidate other states into joining their camps.

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The Tyranny of the Ideal

10.23943/princeton/9780691183428.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Gerald Gaus

Keyword(s):

Political Philosophy ◽

Moral Life ◽

Moral Inquiry ◽

Open Society ◽

The Past ◽

Theories Of Justice ◽

The World ◽

Diverse Society ◽

Just Society ◽

The Ideal

This book lays out a vision for how we should theorize about justice in a diverse society. It shows how free and equal people, faced with intractable struggles and irreconcilable conflicts, might share a common moral life shaped by a just framework. The book argues that if we are to take diversity seriously and if moral inquiry is sincere about shaping the world, then the pursuit of idealized and perfect theories of justice—essentially, the entire production of theories of justice that has dominated political philosophy for the past forty years—needs to change. Drawing on recent work in social science and philosophy, the book points to an important paradox: only those in a heterogeneous society—with its various religious, moral, and political perspectives—have a reasonable hope of understanding what an ideally just society would be like. However, due to its very nature, this world could never be collectively devoted to any single ideal. The book defends the moral constitution of this pluralistic, open society, where the very clash and disagreement of ideals spurs all to better understand what their personal ideals of justice happen to be. Presenting an original framework for how we should think about morality, this book rigorously analyzes a theory of ideal justice more suitable for contemporary times.

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History of Tour de France from the Geographical Point of View

Sport Science Review ◽

10.2478/ssr-2013-0013 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 22 (3-4) ◽

pp. 255-277 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Vladimír Bačík ◽

Michal Klobučník

Keyword(s):

Point Of View ◽

The Past ◽

Advanced Technologies ◽

The World ◽

Spatial Dimensions ◽

Tour De France ◽

Wide Circle ◽

History Of ◽

Expert Community ◽

Geographical Point

Abstract The Tour de France, a three week bicycle race has a unique place in the world of sports. The 100th edition of the event took place in 2013. In the past of 110 years of its history, people noticed unique stories and duels in particular periods, celebrities that became legends that the world of sports will never forget. Also many places where the races unfolded made history in the Tour de France. In this article we tried to point out the spatial context of this event using advanced technologies for distribution of historical facts over the Internet. The Introduction briefly displays the attendance of a particular stage based on a regional point of view. The main topic deals with selected historical aspects of difficult ascents which every year decide the winner of Tour de France, and also attract fans from all over the world. In the final stage of the research, the distribution of results on the website available to a wide circle of fans of this sports event played a very significant part (www.tdfrance.eu). Using advanced methods and procedures we have tried to capture the historical and spatial dimensions of Tour de France in its general form and thus offering a new view of this unique sports event not only to the expert community, but for the general public as well.

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