The Background of Teresa’s Writing: Spirituality as a Subjective Form of Knowledge

The prescriptive approach has been prevalent in discussions about the linguistic norm for many decades. Many linguists question the primacy of social custom and make many arbitrary changes to establish the subjective form of the norm. In connection with the planned The Dictionary of Proper Uses of Languagethe author of the article presents the best structuralist traditions and calls for research on the linguistic norm which is based on descriptive methods. It is necessary to completely break away from all manifestations of arbitrariness and subjectivity in contemporary prescriptive linguistics. The fundamental premise that the linguistic norm is a fact based on usus must be reflected in relevant procedures aimed at analyzing corpora consisting of millions of words. Such an approach will make it possible to establish a model that comprises more than just individual language uses. As far as dictionary definitions are concerned, the most frequent, widespread and thus typical linguistic units should be primarily considered to be normative. Typicality, determined by frequency, as well as textual, social and territorial conditions, is the most important category.

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Factors Associated With Function After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

Sports Health A Multidisciplinary Approach ◽

10.1177/1941738108326700 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 47-53 ◽

Cited By ~ 47

Author(s):

Trevor A. Lentz ◽

Susan M. Tillman ◽

Peter A. Indelicato ◽

Michael W. Moser ◽

Steven Z. George ◽

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Keyword(s):

Anterior Cruciate Ligament ◽

Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction ◽

Ligament Reconstruction ◽

Cruciate Ligament ◽

International Knee Documentation Committee ◽

Psychological Variables ◽

Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction ◽

Subjective Form ◽

Anterior Cruciate ◽

Tampa Scale For Kinesiophobia

Background: Many individuals do not resume unrestricted, preinjury sports participation after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, thus a better understanding of factors associated with function is needed. The purpose of this study was to investigate the association of knee impairment and psychological variables with function in subjects with anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. Hypothesis: After controlling for demographic variables, knee impairment and psychological variables contribute to function in subjects with anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. Study Design: Cross-sectional study; Level of evidence, 4a. Methods: Fifty-eight subjects with a unilateral anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction completed a standardized testing battery for knee impairments (range of motion, effusion, quadriceps strength, anterior knee joint laxity, and pain intensity), kinesiophobia (shortened Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia), and function (International Knee Documentation Committee subjective form and single-legged hop test). Separate 2-step regression analyses were conducted with International Knee Documentation Committee subjective form score and single-legged hop index as dependent variables. Demographic variables were entered into the model first, followed by knee impairment measures and Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia score. Results: A combination of pain intensity, quadriceps index, Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia score, and flexion motion deficit contributed to the International Knee Documentation Committee subjective form score (adjusted r2 = 0.67; P < .001). Only effusion contributed to the single-legged hop index (adjusted r2 = 0.346; P = .002). Conclusion: Knee impairment and psychological variables in this study were associated with self-report of function, not a performance test. Clinical Relevance: The results support focusing anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction rehabilitation on pain, knee motion deficits, and quadriceps strength, as well as indicate that kinesiophobia should be addressed. Further research is needed to reveal which clinical tests are associated with performance testing.

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Thresholded ConvNet ensembles: neural networks for technical forecasting

Neural Computing and Applications ◽

10.1007/s00521-020-04877-9 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 32 (18) ◽

pp. 15249-15262

Author(s):

Sid Ghoshal ◽

Stephen Roberts

Keyword(s):

Neural Networks ◽

Domain Knowledge ◽

Deep Neural Network ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Financial Time Series ◽

Visual Representations ◽

Financial Time ◽

Subjective Form ◽

Processing Techniques ◽

Signal Processing Techniques

Abstract Much of modern practice in financial forecasting relies on technicals, an umbrella term for several heuristics applying visual pattern recognition to price charts. Despite its ubiquity in financial media, the reliability of its signals remains a contentious and highly subjective form of ‘domain knowledge’. We investigate the predictive value of patterns in financial time series, applying machine learning and signal processing techniques to 22 years of US equity data. By reframing technical analysis as a poorly specified, arbitrarily preset feature-extractive layer in a deep neural network, we show that better convolutional filters can be learned directly from the data, and provide visual representations of the features being identified. We find that an ensemble of shallow, thresholded convolutional neural networks optimised over different resolutions achieves state-of-the-art performance on this domain, outperforming technical methods while retaining some of their interpretability.

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Caring, objectivity and justice: An integrative view

Nursing Ethics ◽

10.1177/0969733010388927 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 149-160 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Stan van Hooft

Keyword(s):

Moral Theory ◽

Ethics Of Care ◽

Moral Reasons ◽

Moral Sentiments ◽

Normative Realism ◽

Integrative View ◽

Principle Of Justice ◽

Subjective Form

The argument of this article is framed by a debate between the principle of humanity and the principle of justice. Whereas the principle of humanity requires us to care about others and to want to help them meet their vital needs, and so to be partial towards those others, the principle of justice requires us to consider their needs without the intrusion of our subjective interests or emotions so that we can act with impartiality. I argue that a deep form of caring lies behind both approaches and so unites them. In the course of the argument, I reject Michael Slote’s sentimentalist form of an ethics of care, and expound Thomas Nagel’s moral theory, which seems to lie at the opposite end of a spectrum ranging from moral sentiments to impersonal objectivity. Nevertheless, Nagel’s theory of normative realism provides unexpected support for the thesis that a deep and subjective form of caring lies at the base of even our most objective moral reasons.

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The Pepys of London E11: Graeme Miller and the Politics of Linked

New Theatre Quarterly ◽

10.1017/s0266464x05000059 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 21 (2) ◽

pp. 148-160 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Carl Lavery

Keyword(s):

Everyday Life ◽

Oral History ◽

Urban Theory ◽

Political Performance ◽

Theoretical Perspectives ◽

Subjective Form ◽

A Performance

In 2003, Graeme Miller was commissioned by the Museum of London to produce a sitespecific artwork for its oral history collection. Miller responded by creating Linked, a performance which bears witness to the disastrous impact the M11 link road has had on his local neighbourhood since its construction in the 1990s. Helped by a team of researchers, Miller interviewed local citizens and road protesters and broadcast their testimonies from twenty transmitters that line the route of the link road. In order to activate the work, the participant borrows a headset from a local library and is invited to follow the link road from Hackney to Wanstead, a distance of roughly four miles. This article explores the politics of Linked from a number of different theoretical perspectives: contemporary ethnography, everyday life studies, urban theory, and Situationism. The objective is to show that Linked offers an alternative paradigm for political performance – a paradigm which also necessitates an idiosyncratic and subjective form of writing. The article is followed by an interview in which Miller speaks about the processes involved in making Linked. Carl Lavery teaches performance and theatre at Loughborough University.

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Whitehead's Philosophy: The Higher Phases of Experience

Philosophy ◽

10.1017/s0031819100005179 ◽

1946 ◽

Vol 21 (78) ◽

pp. 57-78

Author(s):

Sydney E. Hooper

Keyword(s):

Conscious Experience ◽

Late Phase ◽

Conscious Perception ◽

High Grade ◽

Important Type ◽

Subjective Form

In my last article I described fully the important type of entity in Whitehead's philosophy called “propositions,” and explained the part they played in conscious experience. We learnt that “consciousness” was a certain kind of emergent quality associated with the late phase of concrescence of some high-grade actual entities. It was pointed out that whenever consciousness was present in experience, this proved to be the subjective form of an integral synthetic feeling composed of (1) a physical feeling and (2) a pro-positional feeling. This integral feeling was said to be a feeling of contrast between “actuality” and “ideality,” between a fact and a possibility. That is to say consciousness is the subjective form of the feeling of a contrast between what actuality is, and might not be, or what actuality is not, and yet might be. We can now proceed to deal with a number of higher phases of experience such as “belief,” “conscious perception,” “judgment,” together with experiences termed by Whitehead “physical purposes.”

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Cognitive behavioral therapy in pharmacoresistant obsessive-compulsive disorder

European Psychiatry ◽

10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.484 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 33 (S1) ◽

pp. S203-S203 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

J. Vyskocilova ◽

J. Prasko

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ◽

Behavioral Therapy ◽

Structured Interview ◽

Cognitive Behavioral ◽

Compulsive Disorder ◽

Somatoform Dissociation ◽

Therapy Program ◽

Subjective Form ◽

Competing Interest ◽

Intensive Group

BackgroundThe aim of the study was to determine whether patients with OCD resistant to drugs may improve using intensive, systematic CBT lasting six weeks and whether it is possible to predict the therapeutic effect using demographic, clinical and psychological characteristics at baseline.MethodThere were 66 patients included in the study. Fifty-seven patients completed the program. The diagnosis was confirmed by a structured interview MINI. Patient were rated before the treatment using Y-BOCS (objective and subjective form), CGI (objective and subjective form), BAI, BDI, DES (Dissociative Experiences Scale), SDQ 20 (Somatoform Dissociation Questionnaire), and SDS (Sheehan Disability Scale), and at the end of the treatment using subjective Y-BOCS, objective and subjective CGI, BAI, and BDI. Patients were treated with antidepressants and daily intensive group cognitive behavioral therapy for the period of six weeks.ResultsDuring the 6-week intensive cognitive behavioral therapy program in combination with pharmacotherapy, there was a significant improvement in patients suffering from OCD formerly resistant to pharmacotherapy. There were statistically significant decreases in the scales assessing the severity of OCD symptoms, anxiety, and depressive feelings. The lower treatment effect was achieved specifically in patients who:– showed fewer OCD themes in symptomatology;– showed a higher level of somatoform dissociation;– with poor insight;– with a higher level of overall severity of the disorder in the beginning.The remission of the disorder was achieved more probably in patients with:– good insight;– the lower level of initial anxiety;– without comorbidity with the depressive disorder.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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A novel autologous-made matrix using hyaline cartilage chips and platelet-rich growth factors for the treatment of full-thickness cartilage or osteochondral defects: Preliminary results

Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery ◽

10.1177/2309499019887547 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 28 (1) ◽

pp. 230949901988754 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ramón Cugat ◽

Eduard Alentorn-Geli ◽

Jordi Navarro ◽

Xavier Cuscó ◽

Gilbert Steinbacher ◽

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Keyword(s):

Growth Factors ◽

Magnetic Resonance ◽

Surgical Technique ◽

Hyaline Cartilage ◽

Lysholm Score ◽

Osteochondral Defects ◽

Full Thickness ◽

Cartilage Restoration ◽

Subjective Form

Purpose: To report the clinical, functional, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based outcomes of a novel autologous-made matrix consisting of hyaline cartilage chips combined with mixed plasma poor rich in platelets clot and plasma rich in growth factors (PRGF) for the treatment of knee full-thickness cartilage or osteochondral defects. Methods: Between July 2015 and January 2018, all patients with full-thickness cartilage or osteochondral defects undergoing this novel cartilage restoration surgical technique were approached for eligibility. Indications for this procedure included traumatic or atraumatic full-thickness knee cartilage defects or osteochondritis dissecans. Patients were included if they had no concomitant use of stem cells, previous ipsilateral cartilage repair procedure, or follow-up was less than 10 months. The outcomes included data on current symptoms, physical exam, patient-reported, and functional outcomes (visual analogue scale (VAS) for pain, Lysholm score, Tegner activity scale, International Knee Documentation Committee (IKDC) subjective form, Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) score, Lequesne index, and short form-12 (SF-12)) and the magnetic resonance observation of cartilage repair tissue (MOCART) score. These outcomes were compared to preoperative values, except for the MOCART score. Results: Fifteen patients were included in this preliminary study: mean (standard deviation (SD), range) follow-up 15.9 months (7.2, 10–32), age 26.8 years (12.1, 16–58), and body mass index 23.2 (2.1, 19.3–26.9). There were 14 men (93%) and 1 woman (7%). There was a statistically significant improvement between pre- and postoperative periods for VAS for pain ( p = 0.003), Lysholm score ( p = 0.002), IKDC subjective form ( p = 0.003), WOMAC for pain ( p = 0.005), WOMAC for stiffness ( p = 0.01), WOMAC for function ( p = 0.002), Lequesne Index ( p = 0.002), and SF-12 physical component summary ( p = 0.007). The postoperative mean (SD; range) MOCART score was 70 (12.4; 40–85). Conclusions: The use of this novel cartilage restoration surgical technique provides excellent clinical, functional, and MRI-based outcomes in young, active individuals with full-thickness cartilage or osteochondral defects. Level of evidence: Level IV—Therapeutic case series.

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Omniscience and radical particularity: a reply to Simoni

Religious Studies ◽

10.1017/s0034412503006462 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 39 (2) ◽

pp. 225-233

Author(s):

GEORGE W. SHIELDS

Keyword(s):

Mental States ◽

Religious Studies ◽

Human Beings ◽

Process Studies ◽

Subjective Form ◽

The Law

This paper is a brief reply to Henry Simoni's ‘Divine passibility and the problem of radical particularity: does God feel your pain?’ in Religious Studies, 33 (1997). I treat his discussion of my paper entitled ‘Hartshorne and Creel on impassibility’, Process Studies, 21 (1992). I argue that Simoni's examples used to illustrate the purportedly contradictory nature of the experiences of a God who universally feels creaturely states fail. For Simoni tacitly employs an inadequate notion of the law of non-contradiction, and thereby misses the relevant phenomenological fact that it is possible for human beings to have integrated mental states that contain spatially distinctive but conflicting hedonic properties. Thus, it is possible for God (at least under Hartshornean descriptions) to have such experiences. I also argue that I have not ‘exploited an isolated passage’ in Hartshorne to make his views seem more palatable. The point of the passage in question is in fact repeated by Hartshorne and is systematically connected with his doctrine of the ‘objective and subjective form of feeling’.

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Arabic translation and validation of three knee scores, Lysholm Knee Score (LKS), Oxford Knee Score (OKS), and International Knee Documentation Committee Subjective Knee Form (IKDC)

SICOT-J ◽

10.1051/sicotj/2018054 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 5 ◽

pp. 6 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Khamis Mohamed Ahmed ◽

Hatem G. Said ◽

Eslam Karam Allah Ramadan ◽

Mohamed Abd El-Radi ◽

Maher A. El-Assal

Keyword(s):

Construct Validity ◽

Correlation Coefficient ◽

Pearson Correlation ◽

Intraclass Correlation ◽

Oxford Knee Score ◽

Knee Score ◽

Lysholm Knee Score ◽

Subjective Form ◽

Translation And Validation ◽

Meniscus Injuries

Aim of the work: Translation and validation of three commonly used knee scores to Arabic language: the Lysholm Knee Score (LKS), the Oxford Knee Score (OKS), and IKDC Subjective Knee Form. Methods: Our work focused on translation and validation of the LKS, OKS and IKDC. Construct validity was assessed by comparing the LKS, OKS, and IKDC Subjective Knee Form and previous Arabic translated version of Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS). Test−retest reliability, internal consistency, and construct validity were assessed, using Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC), Cronbach's alpha, and Pearson correlation coefficient (r). Results: Reliability was excellent for the Arabic IKDC subjective form (0.95), while the Arabic LKS and the Arabic OKS were good: 0.8 and 0.85, respectively. The Cronbach's ά was excellent for the Arabic LKS and Arabic OKS: 0.9 and 0.90, respectively, while the Arabic IKDC subjective form was good (0.89). Construct validity was high for the Arabic LKS and the Arabic OKS: 0.7 and 0.913, respectively, while the Arabic IKDC was moderate (0.4) in cases of ACL and meniscus injuries and mild (0.18) in cases of osteoarthritis. Conclusion: Arabic LKS and Arabic OKS were reliable and valid scores for patients complaining of ligamentous injuries, meniscus injuries, and osteoarthritis to be used for Arabic-speaking people, while the Arabic IKDC had excellent reliability and mild validity in cases of osteoarthritis and moderate validity in cases of ACL and meniscus injuries.

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