The absolute efficiency of perceptual decisions

1980 ◽  
Vol 290 (1038) ◽  
pp. 71-82 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mirror Symmetry ◽  
Statistical Information ◽  
Sense Organs ◽  
Sensory Physiology ◽  
Absolute Efficiency ◽  
The World ◽  
The Absolute

Our perceptions of the world around us are stable and reliable. Is this because the mechanisms that yield them are crude and insensitive, and thus immune to false responses? Or is it because a statistical censor that blocks unreliable messages intervenes between the signals from our sense organs and our knowledge of them? This question can be answered by measuring the efficiency with which statistical information is utilized in perception. It is shown that mirror symmetry can be detected in displays of otherwise random dots with an efficiency of up to 50 %; thus the statistical mechanisms are not crude and insensitive, and this aspect of sensory physiology and psychology may deserve more attention.

The World after the End of the World

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kas Saghafi
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
End Of The World

In several late texts, Derrida meditated on Paul Celan's poem ‘Grosse, Glühende Wölbung’, in which the departure of the world is announced. Delving into the ‘origin’ and ‘history’ of the ‘conception’ of the world, this paper suggests that, for Derrida, the end of the world is determined by and from death—the death of the other. The death of the other marks, each and every time, the absolute end of the world.

Sensory Transduction

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon L. Fain
Keyword(s):  
Ion Channels ◽  
Receptor Cell ◽  
Electrical Response ◽  
Second Messengers ◽  
Sensory Transduction ◽  
Sensory Receptor ◽  
Signal Pathways ◽  
Sense Organs ◽  
Sensory Physiology ◽  
Effector Molecules

Sensory Transduction provides a thorough and easily accessible introduction to the mechanisms that each of the different kinds of sensory receptor cell uses to convert a sensory stimulus into an electrical response. Beginning with an introduction to methods of experimentation, sensory specializations, ion channels, and G-protein cascades, it provides up-to-date reviews of all of the major senses, including touch, hearing, olfaction, taste, photoreception, and the “extra” senses of thermoreception, electroreception, and magnetoreception. By bringing mechanisms of all of the senses together into a coherent treatment, it facilitates comparison of ion channels, metabotropic effector molecules, second messengers, and other components of signal pathways that are common themes in the physiology of the different sense organs. With its many clear illustrations and easily assimilated exposition, it provides an ideal introduction to current research for the professional in neuroscience, as well as a text for an advanced undergraduate or graduate-level course on sensory physiology.

Indeterminate Subjects, Irreducible Worlds

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 75-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Yusoff
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Sense Organs ◽  
The World

Lodged in an impasse between questions of environmental justice and modes of capitalisation in the green economy, indeterminacy is a vulnerable and porous relation. Pollution activates a potentiality in the organism to be otherwise, to generate certain kinds of tumours, mini-deaths or mutations. Toxicity has an intermediary status that launches a mobility of effects that is often fragmented through sense organs, affirming forms of non-identity in biopolitical relations. Organisms are receptive to such bodily reconfigurations precisely because they are open to the material communication of the world. In contrast to the “hidden labour” of indeterminacy in capitalist modes of capture, this article crafts an analytics of indeterminacy as an interjection in the politics of environments. Through dispersants in the Gulf of Mexico and military bees, two economies of indeterminacy are discussed. Drawing on Georges Bataille’s notion of political economy, I argue that what is required is an economy of radical inequivalence; an excessive engagement with the possibilities of indetermining forces to make fleeting marks.

A Conundrum of Peer Evaluation of Predicting Poor Prognostic Models Affecting the Mortality Rate of Covid -19

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yashaswini J ◽  
Niranjan K R ◽  
Beena Ullala Mata B N ◽  
Kaliprasad C S
Keyword(s):  
Prognostic Model ◽  
Statistical Information ◽  
Prognostic Models ◽  
Peer Evaluation ◽  
Research Teams ◽  
Emerging Nations ◽  
The World ◽  
Prognosis Model ◽  
Real World Datasets ◽  
Number Of Individuals

Mankind is confronting these days a histrionic pandemic scene with the Coronavirus proliferation over all continents. The Covid-19 pandemic outbreak is as yet not very much portrayed, and numerous research teams everywhere on the world are chipping away at one or the other restorative therapeutic issues or immunization issues. The outburst of COVID-19 has constituted a danger to wellbeing of world. With the expanding number of individuals tainted, medical services frameworks, particularly those in economically emerging nations, are bearing gigantic pressing factor for the devising a prognostic model. There is a dire requirement for the analysis of COVID-19 and the anticipation of inpatients. To diminish these issues, a data statistical information driven clinical aid framework is advanced in this paper. In view of two real world datasets in Wuhan, China, the proposed framework coordinates information from various sources with tools of Machine Learning (ML) to anticipate COVID-19 tainted likelihood of suspected patients in their first visit, and afterward foresee mortality of affirmed cases. As opposed to picking an interpretable calculation, this framework isolates the clarifications from ML models. It can do help to patient triaging and give some valuable guidance to specialists and doctors. A prognosis model is in the way of extraordinary premium for specialists to adjust their consideration methodology for therapeutic or diagnosis procedure.

Prinsip-Prinsip Kepemilikan Harta Dalam Islam

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-131
Author(s):  
Lukman Hamdani
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
The Real ◽  
The World ◽  
Rich People ◽  
The Absolute

Property is one of the most important instruments in this life, because wealth is as a support  for the continuity  of human life, in Islam it is always emphasized the importance of independence in owning property  through  work or business, because Allah really loves his servant who is always giving  alms with  his own property.  Allah Almighty really likes hard workers or people who are persistent in seeking treasure for the sake of the afterlife, even Allah SWT  emphasizes in  Surah at-taubah  father 10. And Say: "Work  for you, Then Allah and His Messenger and the believers  will see your work, and you will be returned to (Allah) who knows the unseen and the real, then He tells you what you have done. Even the  Companions of the Messenger  of  Allāh  adalah were rich people  who possessed  wealth  for  the progress and development of Islam  at the time, a  very real example was the Friends of Abu Bakr, Abdurrah bin ʻAuf, Uthman ibn Affan and the Wife of the Messenger of Allāh adalah was a great entrepreneur, Siti Khadijah. They are friends looking  for wealth and have it as much as possible then after that they distribute their wealth through ZISWAF, it is obligatory and must for Muslims  to seek / have property  for the benefit of the world and the hereafter and the interests of Muslims and provision  in  the hereafter Can be concluded that ownership of property in Islam  it is very important because it is a means of sustaining life and as a place to find savings  for ukhrawi life  later,  because indeed ownership of property in Islam  is  not only focused  on worldly matters, but there are  two elements  that are always included,  namely for  worldly  and spiritual interests. It  should be underlined in the ownership of the property  that the principle  must be instilled that this property has the absolute God Almighty, we are only temporarily entrusted, therefore it is not beautiful to not distribute the assets we have to people in need through ZISWAF instruments.  

Statistical Literacy as a Way to Achieve Social Consensus

Vestnik NSUEM ◽  
2022 ◽  
pp. 135-143
Author(s):  
M. V. Karmanov ◽  
O. A. Zolotareva
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
State Policy ◽  
Statistical Information ◽  
The State ◽  
Statistical Literacy ◽  
Social Consensus ◽  
Russian State ◽  
The World ◽  
A Priority

The maintenance of civil peace and harmony in the Russian state from time immemorial has been defined as a priority that allows maintaining the integrity of both state and territorial. Global processes taking place in the world, epidemic waves of viruses, incessant local wars, diligent attempts to separate people and peoples bring to the fore the need to consolidate society in order to ensure the national security of the country. In this context, the importance of statistics increases, which significantly affects the perception of the dominant values by society, forms the attitude of people to the state policy being pursued. At the same time, the understanding of statistical information (figures, data) in a number of cases does not correspond to reality, making it difficult to adequately assess the existing situation, which is associated with an insufficient level of statistical literacy of the population, officials and specialists in various fields of activity.

Western Countries: Future of Multiculturalism in Context of Employment

2012 ◽  
pp. 16-25
Author(s):  
M. Klupt
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Statistical Information ◽  
Western World ◽  
The West ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
The World

Will immigrant minorities change the Western world? Two decades ago this question seemed irrelevant as it was expected that the West will change the world in its image. Today, the same question is perceived as rhetorical. The answer is obvious, and the dispute is merely over directions, extent and possible consequences of future changes. The center of this dispute is the multiculturalism – the concept, policy and praxis praising diversity of cultures and denying any of them a vested right to dominate not only in the world at large, but even in a particular country. The assessment of its perspectives presupposes a variety of research approaches in view of its complexity. In the present article only one of them is be used for the analysis focused on the employment of immigrant minorities from the world's South. The viability of such approach is based on two circumstances. Firstly, the employment indexes considered in ethnical context belong to the most important characteristics of ethno-social structure of a society. Secondly, the availability of broad statistical information about employment allows for resting upon empirical data, possibly avoiding a needless bias toward purely theoretical constructions.

The Neuronal Crisis: Meditate to Comprehend the Nature of Psychosomatic Epidemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-127
Author(s):  
Henri Hude
Keyword(s):  
Major Part ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The West ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Experimental Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Rational Consideration ◽  
Existential Problem

This articles describes the “neuronal crisis,” the epidemic of psychosomatic illnesses observed all over the world, particularly in the West. The paper looks into the deeper real causes and seeks the most effective kind of cure for this malady. This leads to rational consideration of the metaphysical dimension of the human being and the fundamental problems (those of evil, of freedom, of God, of the soul, and of the body), where lack of sufficiency plays a major part in the etiology of these pathologies, as the desire for the Absolute is the basis of the unconscious. This approach presumes the Freudian model but denies its purely libidinal interpretation that substitutes desire for the Absolute with libido. Hence, an explanatory system applied to increasingly serious pathologies: ailments, neuroses, depressions, and psychoses. Frustration of one’s desire for the Good gives rise to a sublimation of finite goodness. The inevitable desublimation, caused by anguish because of the Evil, intense guilt, and the dramatization of evils, causes neuroses as awkward but inevitable solutions to the existential problem that is still unresolved, due to lack of functional and experimental knowledge. Psychiatry and even medicine must take into account the metaphysical layer, and, therefore, operate within an existential dynamic, aiming to progress in wisdom and to discover man, man’s brain and body, as these are structured around the axis of his desire.

scholarly journals The World Health Organization's QualityRights materials for training, guidance and transformation: preventing coercion but marginalising psychiatry

2021 ◽  
Vol 218 (5) ◽  
pp. 240-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Hoare ◽  
Richard M. Duffy
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
World Health ◽  
Involuntary Treatment ◽  
Training Material ◽  
The World ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Health Organization

SummaryThe World Health Organization has developed training material to support its QualityRights Initiative. These documents offer excellent strategies to limit coercion. However, the negative portrayal of psychiatry, the absolute prohibition on involuntary treatment and the apparent acceptance of the criminalisation of individuals with mental illness are causes for concern.

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