FROM THE HISTORY OF THE BINARY NUMBER SYSTEM. UNKNOWN AUTHOR'S BROCHURE

2021 ◽  
pp. 60-62
Author(s):  
D. M. Zlatopolski

The article describes the first in history, according to the author, "practical use of the binary number system". This is an old puzzle, in different languages having different names, first described in the brochure "Théorie du baguenodier..." ("Theory of baguenodier...") published in France in 1872. The diagrams in the brochure show the various puzzle states and binary state numbers. French mathematician Éduard Lucas developed the idea of using the connection of a situation on a diagram that simulates a puzzle with the binary number of the corresponding move to determine the number of moves required to move from any one state of the puzzle to any other. This number is equal to the difference between the decimal equivalents of the binary numbers of the two states. In addition, Lucas pointed out the relationship between the binary numbers of all states of a puzzle with n rings with all possible combinations without repetitions of n objects.

Author(s):  
Alimohammad Ranjbar ◽  
Elahe Kamali Ardakani ◽  
Rahele Zareshahi

Aims: In Iranian culture, due to some narratives from the prophet Mohammad about the use of frankincense during pregnancy for increasing IQ in children, some women consume frankincense during expectancy. This study's goal is to evaluate the relationship between frankincense used during pregnancy and the incidence of ADHD. Methods: In this study, the case group comprised children 4-17 years old referring to Shahid Chamran Pharmacy in Yazd from summer to winter 2018 for receiving Methylphenidate, those with whom a psychologist had identified ADHD based on DSM-V factors.  The control group included children of the same age group but without ADHD. For data gathering, a checklist was used with some questions on smoking, family history of ADHD, presence/absence of a specific disease during pregnancy, frankincense used during pregnancy, and a chemical medication consumed during pregnancy. Results: The main result demonstrated that the children whose mothers used frankincense during pregnancy were 0.67 times less likely to be affected by ADHD than those whose mothers did not use this substance. However, the difference failed to be statistically significant (P>0.05). Conclusion: Some studies report that frankincense can bear a positive effect on the development of the brain and possibly adequate formation of dendrites trees, axons and induce proper communication between them, so the impact of frankincense on the brain may be justified by its protective effect against the hyperactive child.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (28) ◽  
pp. 71-95
Author(s):  
Eli B. Lichtenstein

Foucault’s governmentality lectures at the Collège de France analyze the history of the state through the lens of governmental reason. However, these lectures largely omit consideration of the relationship between discipline and the state, prioritizing instead raison d’État and liberalism as dominant state technologies. To remedy this omission, I turn to Foucault’s early studies of discipline and argue that they provide materials for the reconstruction of a genealogy of the “disciplinary state.” In reconstructing this genealogy, I demonstrate that the disciplinary state marks the “dark side” of the liberal state, a dark side which is, more-over, largely obscured in the governmentality lectures. I further construe the difference be-tween this early genealogy of the state and the later governmental studies in methodologi-cal terms. At stake in this difference is the historiographic status of capitalism and social conflict. Foucault’s governmentality lectures employ what I term an “idealist disavowal,” thereby treating capitalism and social conflict as irrelevant to the history of the state. The early disciplinary studies, on the other hand, enact a “materialist avowal,” by which these objects are avowed as central to the explanation of how and why the state develops. Final-ly, I argue that Foucault’s governmental genealogy of the liberal state is explanatorily and analytically incomplete, while the genealogy of the disciplinary state contributes to its completion on both fronts.


Author(s):  
Lale Kabadayı

In the history of cinema, bad girl/boy characters are less common than other villain characters. However, these characters have a lot of influence on the audience. The Bad Seed movies, which are important book adaptations, are remarkable for the evil done by a charming, pretty little girl. The audience watched the story of this eight-year-old-girl for the first time with the adaptation made in 1956. The book was adapted as a television movie in the US both in 1985 and 2018. However, it was made in Turkey, too. This adaptation was shot in 1963 by director Nevzat Pesen. This black-and-white film is considered one of the best thriller-horror films of Turkish Cinema. In this study, the relationship of the little girl with evil will be examined in terms of differences in US and Turkish adaptations. Thus, the difference between the two cultures regarding the relationship between child and villainy will be evaluated from the point of cinema.


Circulation ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 142 (Suppl_3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A Zelniker ◽  
David A Morrow ◽  
ofri Mosenzon ◽  
Erica Goodrich ◽  
Petr Jarolim ◽  
...  

Introduction: Biomarkers of hemodynamic stress and myocardial injury are associated with the risk of CV death & heart failure in patients with atherosclerotic vascular disease (ASCVD). Here we explore the association between cardiac biomarkers and ASCVD outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM). Methods: This was a nested biomarker study in DECLARETIMI 58, a randomized, blinded, placebo-controlled trial of dapagliflozin in T2DM and either multiple risk factors (MRF, ~60%) or established ASCVD (~40%). The relationship between baseline NT-proBNP and hsTnT levels (TIMI Biomarker Laboratory, n=14,565) and the composite of myocardial infarction, ischemic stroke, and CV death (MACE), was modeled within the placebo arm using Cox models adjusted for age, sex, race, smoking, baseline eGFR, BMI, T2DM duration, insulin use, history of CAD, MI, ischemic stroke, PAD, HF, dyslipidemia & hypertension. Interaction testing was applied to assess the effect of dapagliflozin according to baseline biomarker value. Results: NT-proBNP and hsTnT were significantly associated with MACE (Adjusted hazard ratio (aHR) per 1-SD in log-transformed biomarker, NT-proBNP: aHR 1.62; hsTnT aHR 1.59). The magnitude of the relationship was similar in patients with ASCVD (NT-proBNP aHR 1.60; hsTnT aHR 1.62) and MRF (NT-proBNP aHR 1.62; hsTnT: aHR 1.51) [Fig A] . Moreover, both biomarkers remained independently associated with MACE when combined in the multivariable model (NT-proBNP aHR 1.46, hsTnT aHR 1.39). The risk of MACE by baseline biomarker level and stratified by treatment arm is shown in Fig B. Conclusions: In patients with T2DM both with and without ASCVD, higher baseline NT-proBNP or hsTnT levels identified patients at increased risk of MACE. The difference in MACE rates between dapagliflozin and placebo tended to be more pronounced in ASCVD patients with higher baseline or NT-proBNP or hsTnT levels.


1982 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 683-694
Author(s):  
Leonard Zusne

The subject matter of anomalistic psychology is human behavior and experiences for which paranormal or occult causation is claimed and which appear to violate some of the basic principles on which nature is known to operate. The ambivalence and skepticism of American psychologists concerning paranormal and occult matters are examined historically, as is the relationship between academic psychology, psychical research and parapsychology, and anomalistic psychology. The difference between parapsychology and anomalistic psychology in terms of two contrasting orientations is stressed. The reasons for the persistence of beliefs in ESP and related phenomena are examined, and the need for psychology to come to grips with them is stated.


1994 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 642-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stewart J. H. McCann

The relationship between Schlesinger's American history cycles and a crisis index was examined. The difference between the mean crisis value for private interest phases and public purpose phases approached significance, but adjustments for easily explained anomalies produced complete correspondence between cycle fluctuations and crises for the entire history of the United States.


2018 ◽  
pp. 71-85
Author(s):  
Elissa N. Rodkey ◽  
Kelli Vaughn-Johnson

Taking its cue from the medical field, psychology has long been curious about the relationship between biological sex and illness just as societies have long been interested in regulating women’s bodies. From 19th Century gender differences scholarship through 20th century activism this article introduces the gendered history of psychology and health. Offering a general overview of the past and more recent feminist present within a North American framework. Taking as its base foundation the intellectual shifts away from an exclusively individualistic lens towards one that now emphasizes systems and society; referred to as the difference between a “women-as-problem” and a “women-in-context” approach. Topics addressed include early gender differences scholarship, mental health costs and gendered violence; dual impact of the paradigms of masculinity, perversity in medicating and treating a woman’s psychological condition which result from living in a patriarchal societies; constructs of female sexual dysfunction, and more. We encourage South American scholars to take up the call to more thoroughly explore and expand on the histories of gendered health and psychology within regional and historical time sensitive contexts.


2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 11-29
Author(s):  
Paweł Kaczorowski

The subject of consideration is the relationship between politics and the political, as it is presented in two dissertations by Carl Schmitt from the 1920s: the famous Der Begriff des Politischen and the most extensive work from this period – Verfassungslehre. The thesis of the article is that, contrary to the fairly widespread interpretation of both these phenomena, that is, politics in the common sense and its special form to which Carl Schmitt referred as the political, should not be treated as explanandum and explanans, but as separate, co-occurring and somewhat complementary phenomena. While politics involves state actions for the public interest, ideologically defined according to classic political categories, the political is a sphere of specific actions in the special space of relations sometimes formed between collective entities, defined by the terms enemy-friend, a space cognitively diagnosed by Carl Schmitt. The political is not a real form of politics, but a form of action in the sphere of collective life other than politics, which is essentially important for building the structure of the state. The disclosure of the political in the activities of individual countries is an important element of analysis in foreign policy, an element of analysis of a situation within international relations. Revealing the political as a kind of arcana imperi of state actions, Carl Schmitt appears not only and not primarily as a neutral theoretician of politics, but as a German national political thinker, analysing primarily the situation of Germany in relation to the Entente countries at a very special moment in the history of twentieth-century Europe.


Wielogłos ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 37-56
Author(s):  
Anna Kałuża

Poetry and Image, Literacy and Visuality after 1989 The article traces the history of the relationship between linguistic (textual, verbal, discursive) elements and graphic, visual, and pictorial elements in Polish poetry after 1989. The subject of interest here are various phenomena, such as: artistic books (by Natalia Malek, Kira Pietrek, and Justyna Bargielska), reference to painting/film/ photography, experiments with visual and verbal representation, using a language mark/text by visual artists. The goal is not so much to catalog the relationships between text and image, but to describe the difference between artistic activities in the era of intermedia (twentieth-century avant-garde) and artistic activities in the era of transmedia.


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