scholarly journals Is there a Correlation between a Corona Resident’s Big Three Zodiac Signs and their Experiences of Bodily Pain and/or Medical Complications?

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Pintea ◽  
Rachel Niles
Keyword(s):  
Bodily Pain ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Limiting Factors ◽  
Medical Complications ◽  
Minor Role ◽  
Psychological Analysis ◽  
History Of ◽  
Education Psychology ◽  
A Minor

The objective of this study was to explore the correlation between astrology and fields of medicine to predict medical complications and regions of severe pain for future patients based on their big three zodiac signs. Past research has indicated that astrology has played a minor role in psychological analysis, however, this study aims to test that correlation by taking into consideration one’s sun, moon, and rising sign (big three). Based on the review of the literature comparing astrological studies in topics of education, psychology, economics, and medicine, an online google form survey was distributed to residents of Corona, California from all age groups. Respondents were required to fill out Informed Consent documents, report their big three zodiac signs based on the website provided (typing in their birthdate, birth time, and birth location), and include any history of medical complications and/or pain. After analyzing the 116 respondents that took my survey, it was clear that a correlation did exist with the following zodiac signs when holistically looking at all the medical complications and big three zodiac placements: Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn, Leo, Cancer, and Saggitarius. The results concluded that there is a correlation between one’s big three zodiac signs and their history of medical complications and/or pain. On this basis, it is recommended to also take into consideration limiting factors like sample size, confirmation bias, nonresponse bias, and lack of age group variability. Further research and practical implications of astrology, such as experimental designs, are necessary to challenge its label as pseudoscience.

scholarly journals shARe-IT: Ad hoc Remote Troubleshooting through Augmented Reality

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Ludwig ◽  
Oliver Stickel ◽  
Peter Tolmie ◽  
Malte Sellmer
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Cooperative Work ◽  
Computer Supported Cooperative Work ◽  
Limiting Factors ◽  
Minor Role ◽  
Articulation Work ◽  
Remote Collaboration ◽  
Expertise Sharing ◽  
A Minor

Abstract10 years ago, Castellani et al. (Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work, vol. 18, no. 2–3, 2009, pp. 199–227, 2009) showed that using just an audio channel for remote troubleshooting can lead to a range of problems and already envisioned a future in which augmented reality (AR) could solve many of these issues. In the meantime, AR technologies have found their way into our everyday lives and using such technologies to support remote collaboration has been widely studied within the fields of Human-Computer Interaction and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. In this paper, we contribute to this body of research by reporting on an extensive empirical study within a Fab Lab of troubleshooting and expertise sharing and the potential relevance of articulation work to their realization. Based on the findings of this study, we derived design challenges that led to an AR-based concept, implemented as a HoloLens application, called shARe-it. This application is designed to support remote troubleshooting and expertise sharing through different communication channels and AR-based interaction modalities. Early testing of the application revealed that novel interaction modalities such as AR-based markers and drawings play only a minor role in remote collaboration due to various limiting factors. Instead, the transmission of a shared view and especially arriving at a shared understanding of the situation as a prerequisite for articulation work continue to be the decisive factors in remote troubleshooting.

scholarly journals New Findings on Evolution of Metal Homeostasis Genes: Evidence from Comparative Genome Analysis of Bacteria and Archaea

2005 ◽  
Vol 71 (11) ◽  
pp. 7083-7091 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Coombs ◽  
T. Barkay
Keyword(s):  
Metal Binding ◽  
Metal Homeostasis ◽  
Open Reading Frames ◽  
Minor Role ◽  
Gene Trees ◽  
New Findings ◽  
Atpase Gene ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Multiple Loss

ABSTRACT In order to examine the natural history of metal homeostasis genes in prokaryotes, open reading frames with homology to characterized PIB-type ATPases from the genomes of 188 bacteria and 22 archaea were investigated. Major findings were as follows. First, a high diversity in N-terminal metal binding motifs was observed. These motifs were distributed throughout bacterial and archaeal lineages, suggesting multiple loss and acquisition events. Second, the CopA locus separated into two distinct phylogenetic clusters, CopA1, which contained ATPases with documented Cu(I) influx activity, and CopA2, which contained both efflux and influx transporters and spanned the entire diversity of the bacterial domain, suggesting that CopA2 is the ancestral locus. Finally, phylogentic incongruences between 16S rRNA and PIB-type ATPase gene trees identified at least 14 instances of lateral gene transfer (LGT) that had occurred among diverse microbes. Results from bootstrapped supported nodes indicated that (i) a majority of the transfers occurred among proteobacteria, most likely due to the phylogenetic relatedness of these organisms, and (ii) gram-positive bacteria with low moles percent G+C were often involved in instances of LGT. These results, together with our earlier work on the occurrence of LGT in subsurface bacteria (J. M. Coombs and T. Barkay, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70:1698-1707, 2004), indicate that LGT has had a minor role in the evolution of PIB-type ATPases, unlike other genes that specify survival in metal-stressed environments. This study demonstrates how examination of a specific locus across microbial genomes can contribute to the understanding of phenotypes that are critical to the interactions of microbes with their environment.

scholarly journals The Power of Shop Culture

1992 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 350-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Olssen ◽  
Jeremy Brecher
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Scientific Management ◽  
The Political ◽  
Minor Role ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Labour Process ◽  
History Of ◽  
Hiring And Firing ◽  
A Minor

SummaryThis paper investigates the history of the labour process in New Zealand's state-owned railway workshops and questions the idea that large-scale industry inevitably destroyed whatever agency skilled workers had enjoyed. It also shows that relations of production vary with the political and cultural contexts. Craft control of the labour process survived in New Zealand's state-owned railway workshops and the union played only a minor role. Jop control was more important in achieving bureaucratic instead of autocratic control over such matters as hiring and firing; the retention of apprentice-based crafts; the institutionalization of seniority; and in resisting both de-skilling and the “premium bonus”. The strength and vitality of shop culture, based on craft control of the labour process, also survived and modified the Government's vigorous attempt to introduce “scientific management”. In brief the article concludes that productive processes do not inevitably determine social relations of production, that capitalism has been neither homogeneous nor uniform, and that mechanization never inevitably results in de-skilling.

scholarly journals LIMINAL CRAFT, EXCEPTIONAL LAW: PRELIMINARY NOTES ON MIDWIVES IN MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC WRITINGS

2010 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 202a-202a ◽  
Author(s):  
Avner Giladi
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Law ◽  
Formative Period ◽  
Minor Role ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
Legal Texts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ambivalent Attitude ◽  
The Moment ◽  
A Minor

In this article, the first fruit of an ongoing research on the sociocultural history of midwifery in medieval Muslim societies, I trace the attitudes toward midwives as revealed in Arabic biographical, medical, and legal texts. These texts, the product of male scholars, mirror an ambivalent attitude toward midwives: a mixture of repressed admiration, open repulsion, and fear. Thus, midwives are almost totally absent from Islamic scriptures, and Muslim writers make them play only a minor role in biographical and hagiographic literature, where the midwives of the Prophet's family are consciously or unconsciously “blocked” from becoming mythological figures. Women, sometimes hesitatingly identified as midwives, nevertheless played a role through their very presence at the moment of the Prophet's birth. In a storylike manner, they set an example for the implication of the legal rules concerning the midwife's exceptional status as a witness in court, rules that were formulated and consolidated in the formative period of Islamic law side by side with the traditions on the Prophet Muhammad's birth.

scholarly journals Legume Protein Consumption and the Prevalence of Legume Sensitization

Nutrients ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 1545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Smits ◽  
Thuy-My Le ◽  
Paco Welsing ◽  
Geert Houben ◽  
André Knulst ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Age Groups ◽  
Minor Role ◽  
Protein Consumption ◽  
Ara H 1 ◽  
Consumption Data ◽  
Peanut Allergens ◽  
Legume Protein ◽  
Route Of Exposure ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Food Commodity

Sensitization and allergy to legumes can be influenced by different factors, such as exposure, geographical background, and food processing. Sensitization and the allergic response to legumes differs considerably, however, the reason behind this is not yet fully understood. The aim of this study is to investigate if there is a correlation between legume protein consumption and the prevalence of legume sensitization. Furthermore, the association between sensitization to specific peanut allergens and their concentration in peanut is investigated. Legume sensitization data (peanut, soybean, lupin, lentil, and pea) from studies were analyzed in relation to consumption data obtained from national food consumption surveys using the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Global Environment Monitoring System (GEMS), and What We Eat in America—Food Commodity Intake Database (WWEIA-FCID) databases. Data were stratified for children <4 years, children 4–18 years, and adults. Sufficient data were available for peanut to allow for statistical analysis. Analysis of all age groups together resulted in a low correlation between peanut sensitization and relative peanut consumption (r = 0.407), absolute peanut consumption (r = 0.468), and percentage of peanut consumers (r = 0.243). No correlation was found between relative concentrations of Ara h 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, and 8 in peanut and sensitization to these peanut allergens. The results indicate that the amount of consumption only plays a minor role in the prevalence of sensitization to peanut. Other factors, such as the intrinsic properties of the different proteins, processing, matrix, frequency, timing and route of exposure, and patient factors might play a more substantial role in the prevalence of peanut sensitization.

Talking about MOTION in Old English

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Huber
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
Minor Role ◽  
Motion Verbs ◽  
English Version ◽  
Prepositional Phrases ◽  
Text Type ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Analysis Of Motion ◽  
Manner Verbs

The analysis of the 189 Old English motion verbs shows that Old English has a large manner vocabulary and various non-motion verbs attested in motion readings, which are discussed in this chapter. It is argued that although there are Old English path verbs, hardly any of them can be considered as pure path verbs (except nēahlǣcan, genēahian ‘to approach’), a diagnosis which is supported by an investigation of how Latin path verbs are translated in the Old English version of the gospels. The analysis of motion expression in different texts reveals that Old English can be seen as strongly satellite-framing, with the proportion of manner verbs as opposed to neutral verbs depending on text type. The chapter also addresses the changing realization of satellites in the history of English: In the Old English texts analysed, satellites are typically realized by prepositional phrases and adverbs, while true prefixes only play a minor role.

The History and Historiography of Guild Hierarchies in the Middle Ages

2013 ◽  
Vol 68 (04) ◽  
pp. 685-696
Author(s):  
Étienne Anheim
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Minor Role ◽  
Social Ordering ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Master Craftsman ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
A Minor

Philippe Bernardi’s Maître, valet et apprenti au Moyen Âge. Essai sur une production bien ordonnée, examines the traditional triptych of master craftsman, journeyman, and apprentice, considered to be characteristic of medieval production. By focusing on “work statuses,” Bernardi moves away from an overly narrow legal approach to social status, in which production tends to go largely unanalyzed or else is considered only in curtailed form—as in the model of the three orders where, applying solely to “those who work,” forms of production play only a minor role in social ordering. The originality of his approach lies in the way he constructs his object of study: work hierarchies. These are systematically addressed both in historical terms, on the basis of medieval archives (using the example of Provence in from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century), and in historiographical terms, by examining the models according to which these archives have been interpreted since the nineteenth century. Applying tools drawn from the history of science to medieval history, Bernardi thus uncovers the mechanisms that have shaped our knowledge of medieval society since the nineteenth century, showing that the master-journeyman-apprentice triptych is a representation originating in normative sources that has become a historiographical model, but which does not account for medieval production as it appears in sources relating to practice. Moving beyond this normative view, Bernardi shows that work statuses were mostly relational and functioned as a series of binary oppositions—a reality concealed behind a historiographical discourse woven not only through intellectual experience and critical thinking, but also by beliefs, values, and forms of activism.

Superficial Vein Thrombosis: Incidence in Association with Pregnancy and Prevalence of Thrombophilic Defects

1998 ◽  
Vol 79 (04) ◽  
pp. 741-742 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. E. Ramsay ◽  
R. C. Tait ◽  
I. D. Walker ◽  
F. McCall ◽  
J. A. Conkie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Post Partum ◽  
Previous History ◽  
Minor Role ◽  
Vein Thrombosis ◽  
Early Postpartum Period ◽  
Early Postpartum ◽  
Superficial Vein Thrombosis ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Deep Vein

SummarySuperficial venous thrombotic (SVT) events are a feature of thrombophilic abnormalities, particularly those involving the protein C pathway. We have determined the incidence of SVT associated with pregnancy and the early postpartum period in a retrospective study involving 72 000 deliveries. Fourty-nine cases occurring in 47 individuals were recorded, with an overall incidence of 0.68/1000 deliveries (95% CI 0.48-0.88). None had a previous history of deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism. Most events occurred in the early post-partum period (0.54/1000 deliveries). Twenty-four/fourty-seven were screened for established thrombophilic abnormalities, with only 1 abnormality detected (FVLeiden heterozygote). Thrombophilia may play a minor role in the aetiology of SVT associated with pregnancy, although a larger study is required to confirm this.

scholarly journals Udødeligheden – en begrebshistorisk skitse

2010 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-142
Author(s):  
Kasper Lysemose
Keyword(s):  
Minor Role ◽  
Theoretical Problem ◽  
Conceptual History ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Minor

Immortality apparently plays a minor role in the existential and religious self-understanding of modernity. The concept itself seems antiquated and obsolete. In this situation the best way to approach the concept is through the conceptual history of immortality. This is done in three steps: immortality is firstly considered as a theoretical problem, secondly as a practical postulate, and finally as an existential task. It is a further aim of the article to provide some conditions for a philosophically informed and historically saturated reflection on the significance which immortality might still have. Such a reflection is not itself pursued in the article. But a possible direction is pointed out by addressing Kant’s and Blumenberg’s notions of immortality as respectively a practical postulate and a trial of memory.

scholarly journals Grundtvigs anvendelse af modsigelsen grundsætning i »Kirkens Gienmæle« - filosofisk belyst

2000 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-153
Author(s):  
Erik Kelstrup
Keyword(s):  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Minor Role ◽  
Analytical Philosophy ◽  
First Case ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ontological Claim ◽  
A Minor ◽  
The Church

The principle of contradiction in Kirkens Gienmæle« - in a philosophical lightBy Erik KelstrupThe article has two purposes. The first one is to show some characteristic ways, in which the principle of contradiction has been understood in the history of philosophy. This philosophical overview should serve as a basis for analysing Grundtvig’s use of the principle of contradiction.The second purpose, is in connection to this, to analyse Grundtvig’s use of the principle in the important pamphlet »Kirkens Gienmæle« (1825). The view presented here is that H. Høirup’s claim that the principle is a theological axiom for »Kirkens Gienmæle«, is if not entirely wrong, then at least exaggerated.The first part of the article begins with a presentation and discussion of Aristotle’s understanding of the principle of contradiction. It is shown that Aristotle understands the principle as a primary ontological principle, but that in his argumentation for the principle he actually argues in linguistic ways. Consequently there is a tension between an ontological and a linguistic way of understanding the principle of contradiction in Aristotle. The ontological claim of the principle continues in the philosophy of Christian von Wolff, from whom Grundtvig received his way of understanding the principle through his teacher in propadeutic philosophy, Børge Riisbrigh. Against Wolff Immanuel Kant argues that the principle of contradiction can only be used as an entirely formal and negative principle of truth. It has no connection to reality. The rejection of the ontological relevance of the principle continues in the analytical philosophy nowadays. So E. Tugendhat and P. F. Strawson argue that the principle of contradiction expresses only a necessary condition, if speech is to be meaningful. To speak in contradictions, is to say nothing. Such a speech does not have to be pointless, but if it is not explained, there will be given no information. In a critical reflection on the Aristotelian understanding of the principle of contradiction Tugendhat also emphasizes (in agreement with Strawson), that the predicative expression, which is contradicted in a contradiction, can only be understood on the basis of the situation in which it is used. This leads him to a corrected formulation of the Aristotelian principle of contradiction. Tugendhat’s formulation implies, however, that the principle is only an interior linguistic matter. It does not say anything about how the connection between language and reality should be. Therefore contradictions are not to be understood as false statements (against Kant). As Strawson puts it: there is a difference between declaring that a man’s remarks are untrue, and declaring that they are inconsistent. In the first case the relation to reality is the central issue, in the second it is not.In the second part of the article »Kirkens Gienmæle« is closely analysed with regard to the principle of contradiction. Here it is argued that although Grundtvig seems to find it useful to criticize H. N. Clausen for contradicting himself, and although he declares that Clausen’s contradictions are indications that Clausen is lying, the real argumentation takes place in a comparison between Grundtvig’s and Clausen’s understandings of church and Christianity. This means that the theological axiom is first and foremost Grundtvig’s view of the church, the socalled »kirkelige anskuelse«. Grundtvig’s opinion (in agreement with Kant) that contradiction and falseness are closely related, is rejected on the basis of Strawsons argumentation. But this opinion plays a minor role in »Kirkens Gienmæle«. It is also argued that Grundtvig’s examples of inconsistent thoughts in Clausen’s theology are purely linguistic (as Strawson and Tugendhat would accept it). The principle of contradiction is not used ontologically (as it is in Aristotle and Wolff). Therefore Grundtvig’s attack on Clausen is not epistemological (in opposition to Høirup). Grundtvig is not defending Wolff against Kant. Furthermore it is argued, that Grundtvig’s use of the principle of contradiction is totally superfluous. The actual argumentation is grounded in the demonstration, that Clausen’s understanding of the church is untrue, because it stands in opposition to (what Grundtvig thinks is) the true understanding of the church. And this demonstration and argumentation does not depend on the principle of contradiction. Finally the principle is not at all used (positive or negative) in defining the ground on which the whole pamphlet depends: the true view of the church.

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