Individuation Research Articles

Literary Individuation and the Ethnography of Indifference: Reading Augé after Houellebecq

Literary Individuation and the Ethnography of Indifference: Reading Augé after Houellebecq

Landy Is Correct: Stereotyping Can Be Moderated by Individuating the Out-Group and by Being Accountable

Landy Is Correct: Stereotyping Can Be Moderated by Individuating the Out-Group and by Being Accountable

The function of Z-axis tube-current modulation technique with desired noise level to decrease radiation dose in MSCT chest scanning

Objective Retrospectively evaluate the effect of Z-axis tube-current modulation technique with desired noise level to improve image quality (image noise level) and decrease radiation doses of MSCT (16-slice CT) in chest scanning. Methods Consecutive two hundred patients whose CT scan projection radiographs showed no significant abnormal were randomly divided into two groups by the examination order: Z-axis tube-current modulation (ZTCM) group (odd number, test group) and constant tube-current (CTC) group (even number, contrast group). The desired noise level of ZTCM group was 10HU and the machine automatically set the dynamic tube-current in scanning according to attenuated information of chest acquired in scan projection radiographs, the tubo-current of CTC group was set at 200mA, while the other scan parameters remained totally the same. The maximum tube-current value,CTDIvol, DLP and the tube-current of the slice at the maximum breast level of female patients were recorded respectively. The noise of image at upper lung, aorta arch, left atrium and bottom lung level were measured and compared. The qualities of Images were classified in three levels (excellent, good, poor) with double blind method. Results The mean value of maximum mA, CTDIvol, DLP and mA of the slice at the maximum breast level of ZTCM group were (178.5±125.6) mA, (10.5±3.8) mGy, (231.6±24.3)mGy/cm and (116.0±22.5) mA, those of CTC were 200.0 mA, 12.8 mGy, (274.7±18.4)mGy/cm and 200.0 mA, ZTCM group decreased by 10.8%, 19.9%, 15.7% and 42.0%,respectively, as compared with CTC group. The image quality at upper lung and bottom lung level in ZTCM group was improved significantly (P < 0.05) and the cases of excellent images in ZTCM group was significantly higher than that of CTC group (P < 0.05). Conclusion ZTCM technique not only contributes to more rational distribution of radiation doses but also realizes individuation, decreases the total radiation doses and improves image quality in chest CT scanning. It is valuable and promising in chest CT scan. Key words: Tomography, X-ray computed; Mass chest X-ray; Noise; Radiation dosage

Individuation through the Unconscious of William Wordsworth: Functioning of Superego

Individuation through the Unconscious of William Wordsworth: Functioning of Superego

Leave Taking: Emotional Cutoff as Lack of Differentiation

Abstract How does one leave the family of origin? This study researches two concepts of Bowen theory: emotional cutoff and sibling position. Bowen (1978) employed the concept of emotional cutoff to mean “the process of separation, isolation, withdrawal, running away or denying the importance of the parental family” (p.382). Roman Catholic seminarians in Canada were asked why they left home. Those stating they left home to “get out of the house” scored lowest on the Intergenerational Individuation scale of the Personal Authority in the Family System Questionnaire-College Version (PAFS-QVC) (Bray & Harvey, 1989: Williamson, 1991). No significant differences were found regarding sibling position. Emotional cutoff seems to indicate a lack of differentiation (Bowen) and personal authority (Williamson) as theorized. Implications for counseling are discussed.

Towards Musical Individuation

Towards Musical Individuation

América Latina luego del mito del progreso neoliberal: las políticas sociales y el problema de la desigualdad

The article develops three sections: the first focuses on the theoretical and political differences between equality and equity and also analyzes why equity replaced equality during period of Neoliberal hegemony. In the second section process of individuation and communitation into social policies are analyzed, especially at Neoliberal process of reform. Finally, a brief discussion on the need of rescue the citizenship into Public Education and Public Health is developed in the third section. In this last section the author also argues that a progressive new process requires new social and labor practices from public agents in order to ally to institutions clients.

Individuation Community Intervention to The Agedness Hypertension

目的 探讨老年高血压病的个性化社区干预措施.方法 采用入户上门随访的形式进行调查,建立高血压患者专档.结果 社区老年高血压病患者治疗率高,但控制率低.结论 采取个性化社区综合干预措施,可有效提高老年高血压病的控制率。

Editorial — Individuation through socialization

Editorial — Individuation through socialization

THE PROCESS OF SEPARATION AND INDIVIDUATION AS THE RISK FACTOR IN PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONS WITH PHYSICAL DISABILITIES

The process of separation and individuation is a developmental psychological process, which takes place at various phases of child development within his first three years of life. These phases include the Normal Autistic Phase, the Normal Symbiotic Phase, the Separation-Individuation Phase (with sub-phases Differentiation, Practicing and Rapprochement, On the Way to Object Con­stancy) and the Final Separation and Psychological Birth of the Human Infant. Undisturbed transition through the developmental phases leads to the es­tablishment of psychological structure in the hu­man infant, which means that he reaches autonomy and independence, thus becoming an individual. For children which were born with physical dis­abilities and have their intellectual capacities pre­served (i.e. in cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy etc.), the fulfilment of this process is endangered, because their development was stuck at the Nor­mal Symbiotic Phase due to two types of factors. The first group represents factors of physical dis­ability (i.e. impossibility to move, obtain inde­pendent experiences and, consequently, the inabil­ity to detach from the Object), while the second group represents reactions to this hindrance (i.e. overprotection, which further thwarts attempts to detach from the Object).

Fine Individuation

Fine Individuation

Původ a vývoj španělského členu

Soucasný spanělský clen prosel v průběhu sveho vývoje z latiny postupně celou řadou změn, jako byly: ztrata systemu deklinace, použivani předložek, pevnějsi slovosled a zvlastě ztrata deikticke funkce ukazovacich zajmen ille a ipse. Objeveni se clenu dokazuje přednost syntaxe před morfologii. Urcitý clen nema lexikalni význam, přestože se vyvinul z latinských ukazovacich zajmen, při přechodu do spanělstiny ztratil deiktickou funkci ukazovacich zajmen a ponechal si pouze funkce gramaticke. Urcitý clen tak na rozdil od zajmen ukazovacich pouze ukazuje, aniž by rozlisil vzdalenost vzhledem k prvni a druhe osobě, ackoliv ma schopnost přiřadit různe funkce jmenu, před kterým stoji (individualizace, klasifikace, generalizace atd.).Neurcitý clen se vyvijel z latinske cislovky unus. Un prosel pomalejsim a pozdějsim vývojem než el a postupně ziskal dalsi semanticke funkce (neurcitost, klasifikace, pocitatelnost, modifikace, důraz, v plurale přibližnost, rod atd.) a doplňuje dnes celkove paradigma clenu, spolu s nulovým clenem.

Individuation and Mystical Union

Individuation and Mystical Union

Kali, Individuation, and the Primordial Unconscious

When he said, “Come in!” With that sickening grin, How could I know what was in store? Once his teeth were bared— Well, excited and scared— But he drew me close And he swallowed me down, Down a dar...

The complexity of individuation

AbstractThis paper addresses the problematics of individuation in Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy. The concept of fold – the inside of the outside – is analyzed in terms of the relations between thought and unthought constituting the process of thinking in affects. It is suggested that thinking of this sort, called by Deleuze the supreme act of philosophy, may be considered tending towards Jungian and post‐Jungian depth psychology. The unconscious of thought is described by the archetypal dynamics of forces acting in the space of the Outside, that this paper posits as the field of collective unconscious. Analogous to Deleuzian virtual tendencies, Jungian archetypes subsist in potentia only and, as a multiplicity of relations between forces, can be expressed through cartographic microanalysis. In accord with Deleuze's method of transcendental empiricism, the unconscious, immanent, microperceptions are reterritorialized by means of mapping the archetypal field. Copyright © 2004 Whurr Publishers Ltd.

Substance and Individuation in Leibniz

Substance and Individuation in Leibniz

Gracia and Aquinas on The Principle of Individuation

Gracia and Aquinas on The Principle of Individuation

Substance and Individuation in Leibniz

Substance and Individuation in Leibniz

Substance and Individuation in Leibniz

Substance and Individuation in Leibniz

Against Bare Particulars A Response to Moreland and Pickavance

In a recent article [Mertz 2001] in this journal I argued for the virtues of a realist ontology of relation instances (unit attributes). A major strength of this ontology is an assay of ontic ('material') predication that yields an account of individuation without the necessity of positing and defending 'bare particulars'. The crucial insight is that it is the unifying agency or combinatorial aspect of a relation instance as predicable that is for ontology the principium individuationis [Mertz 2002; 1996]. Or in short, what is ontically predicable, precisely as such, is the cause of individuation. As a preface to this positive doctrine I offered arguments against the coherence of bare particulars as defended in an article by J. P. Moreland [1998]. In a reply contained in this issue Moreland and Timothy Pickavance (hereafter M/P) propose to answer my objections [2002]. The response that follows provides reasons why, I contend, M/P have not succeeded in parrying my objections to bare particulars.