Elements Of Self Research Articles

Floquet-modal-based analysis for mutual coupling between elements in an array environment

Floquet-modal-based analysis is presented to determine self and mutual impedances between array elements. The analysis inherently includes the effects on scattered fields from the neighbouring elements of self and mutual impedances, and, hence, the technique is appropriate for estimating the performance of finite-array antennas with arbitrary amplitude and phase distributions. From analytical and computational aspects, the technique is simple to handle complex-element structures, such as multilayered patch-array antennas. The technique is applied to patch-array antennas and the numerical results compare well with the available measured data.

Religious totalism, violence and exemplary dualism: Beyond the extrinsic model

This study presents an alternative psychological model to the ‘extrinsic model’. The latter emphasizes the external imposition through brainwashing of a pattern of depersonalization facilitating the enslavement of participants in totalist sects. An alternative approach can be extrapolated from the writings of Robert Lifton and more particularly, Erik Erikson's original conception of totalism. We suggest that contemporary cultural fragmentation exacerbates patterns of identity confusion and narcissistic ‘split self dynamics. Some young persons voluntarily attempt to resolve identity confusion through identification with messianic leaders and their apocalyptic absolutist mystiques. The ‘Exemplary Dualist’ worldviews of such groups facilitate ‘contrast identities’ which project disvalued elements of self onto ‘enemies’ including unbelievers. Emergent projective systems are unstable and may require reinforcement through appropriate interactions with outsiders, for example, converting them. Other vicissitudes ...

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Functional interactions of viral and histocompatibility antigens at tumor cell surfaces.

Several lines of evidence are presented to suggest that histocompatibility antigens can be physically associated on the cell surface with viral antigens and possibly other foreign antigens. The lysis of the murine tumor cells EL4 and P388 by syngeneic cytotoxic lymphocytes was inhibited by antisera directed against the H-2 antigens on the tumor cells, consistent with the hypothesis that H-2 antigens are part of the target of the cytotoxic lymphocytes. Moreover, it was found that patching and capping of the H-2 antigens on EL4 cells resulted in the co-patching and co-capping of viral antigens as detected by antisera against Rauscher leukemia virus. Capping of H-2 antigens also resulted in co-capping of determinants detected by an antiserum to the viral protein gp69/71. On the basis of these and other observations, we propose the hypothesis that the H-2 molecules serve as adaptors that combine with viral antigens on the cell surface to form hybrid antigens containing elements of self (H-2) and non-self (virus). The adaptor-antigen complex may then be recognized by a subclass of thymus-derived (T) lymphocytes that possesses a repertoire of receptors directed against hybirds of foreign and H-2 antigens. This raises the possibility that other products of the major histocompatibility complex may have analogous functions.