Survivalist Anthropology

Flowers of Time ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691205946.003.0004 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 128-162

Author(s):

Mark Payne

Keyword(s):

Human Beings ◽

Survivor Group ◽

Community Creation

This chapter looks at postapocalyptic fiction that brackets the direct, immediately productive relationship between occupation and mentation. It explains how postapocalyptic fiction posits the need for constant ontological practice as a prerequisite of survival, which is considered an adversarial strategy in posthuman survivalist fiction. It also refers to Octavia Butler's Parable novels, wherein the Earthseed writings of her protagonist that sustain eucharistic functions of community creation and group adhesion in an unstable world. The chapter elaborates Earthseed's ontological claims as a requirement for admission to the survivor group and as an understanding that human beings' relationships with one another are directly commensurate with their relationships to other living beings. It analyzes Butler's figure of the Sower that fulfills the organic meaning of apokalypsis.

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Rate of Absorption of Water from Stomach and Small Bowel of Human Beings

Gastroenterology ◽

10.1016/s0016-5085(19)36098-6 ◽

1954 ◽

Vol 27 (5) ◽

pp. 565-577 ◽

Cited By ~ 58

Author(s):

John F. Scholer ◽

Charles F. Code

Keyword(s):

Small Bowel ◽

Human Beings ◽

Rate Of Absorption

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A Study of the Action of Prostigmine on the Bowel of Human Beings

Gastroenterology ◽

10.1016/s0016-5085(49)80063-1 ◽

1949 ◽

Vol 12 (6) ◽

pp. 970-977 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

John M. McMahon ◽

Charles F. Code ◽

Willtam G. Saver ◽

J. Arnold Bargen

Keyword(s):

Human Beings

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The dual biological identity of human beings and the naturalization of morality

History & Philosophy of the Life Sciences ◽

10.1080/03919710312331273035 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 211-241 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Giovanni Felice Azzone

Keyword(s):

Human Beings

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Constructing and Deconstructing Concepts

Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie) ◽

10.1027/1618-3169/a000337 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 63 (5) ◽

pp. 249-262 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Charles A. Doan ◽

Ronaldo Vigo

Keyword(s):

Information Theory ◽

Model Performance ◽

Unsupervised Classification ◽

Family Resemblance ◽

Category Membership ◽

Formal Models ◽

Human Beings ◽

One Dimensional ◽

Relational Patterns ◽

Optimal Classification

Abstract. Several empirical investigations have explored whether observers prefer to sort sets of multidimensional stimuli into groups by employing one-dimensional or family-resemblance strategies. Although one-dimensional sorting strategies have been the prevalent finding for these unsupervised classification paradigms, several researchers have provided evidence that the choice of strategy may depend on the particular demands of the task. To account for this disparity, we propose that observers extract relational patterns from stimulus sets that facilitate the development of optimal classification strategies for relegating category membership. We conducted a novel constrained categorization experiment to empirically test this hypothesis by instructing participants to either add or remove objects from presented categorical stimuli. We employed generalized representational information theory (GRIT; Vigo, 2011b , 2013a , 2014 ) and its associated formal models to predict and explain how human beings chose to modify these categorical stimuli. Additionally, we compared model performance to predictions made by a leading prototypicality measure in the literature.

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Behavioral Testing of Mice Concerning Anxiety and Depression

Zeitschrift für Psychologie ◽

10.1027/2151-2604/a000215 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 223 (3) ◽

pp. 151-156 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Nina Schweinfurth ◽

Undine E. Lang

Keyword(s):

Environmental Influences ◽

Sickness Behavior ◽

Laboratory Research ◽

Anxiety And Depression ◽

Housing Conditions ◽

Human Beings ◽

Behavioral Testing ◽

New Developments ◽

Animal Trials ◽

Resilience Factors

Abstract. In the development of new psychiatric drugs and the exploration of their efficacy, behavioral testing in mice has always shown to be an inevitable procedure. By studying the behavior of mice, diverse pathophysiological processes leading to depression, anxiety, and sickness behavior have been revealed. Moreover, laboratory research in animals increased at least the knowledge about the involvement of a multitude of genes in anxiety and depression. However, multiple new possibilities to study human behavior have been developed recently and improved and enable a direct acquisition of human epigenetic, imaging, and neurotransmission data on psychiatric pathologies. In human beings, the high influence of environmental and resilience factors gained scientific importance during the last years as the search for key genes in the development of affective and anxiety disorders has not been successful. However, environmental influences in human beings themselves might be better understood and controllable than in mice, where environmental influences might be as complex and subtle. The increasing possibilities in clinical research and the knowledge about the complexity of environmental influences and interferences in animal trials, which had been underestimated yet, question more and more to what extent findings from laboratory animal research translate to human conditions. However, new developments in behavioral testing of mice involve the animals’ welfare and show that housing conditions of laboratory mice can be markedly improved without affecting the standardization of results.

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