Thing In Mind Research Articles

Constraining red-shift parametrization parameters in Brans-Dicke theory: evolution of open confidence contours

In Brans Dicke theory of gravity, from the nature of the scalar field-potential considered, the dark energy, dark matter, radiation densities predicted by different observations and the closedness of the universe considered, we can fix our $\omega_{BD}$, the Brans Dicke parameter, keeping only the thing in mind that from different solar system constrains it must be greater than $5\times 10^{5}$. Once we have a value, satisfying the required lower boundary, in our hand we proceed for setting unknown parameters of the different dark energy models' EoS parameter. In this paper we work with three well known red shift parametrizations of dark energy EoS. To constrain their free parameters for Brans Dicke theory of gravity we take twelve point red shift vs Hubble's parameter data and perform $\chi^{2}$ test. We present the observational data analysis mechanism for Stern, Stern+BAO and Stern+BAO+CMB observations. Minimising $\chi^2$, we obtain the best fit values and draw different confidence contours. We analyze the contours physically. Also we examine the best fit of distance modulus for our theoretical models and the Supernovae Type Ia Union2 sample. For Brans Dicke theory of gravity the difference from the mainstream confidence contouring method of data analysis id that the confidence contours evolved are not at all closed contours like a circle or a ellipse. Rather they are found to be open contours allowing the free parameters to float inside a infinite region of parameter space. However, negative EoSs are likely to evolve from the best fit values.

René Descartes: Dancing and Mustering Substances

This article addresses two of the fundamental issues present in the philosophy of Rene Descartes (1596--1650): (i) his division into thinking and spatially extended substances, together with both substantive and methodological aspects of his understanding of their character as a unity, and (ii) his conception of the human body as a machine. I shall illustrate these topics here using the example of Descartes' own military training in the army of the Prince Maurice of Nassau and, as a contrast to this, also his work in another area of highly trained human activity - namely, human dance. In speaking about dance I will not differentiate between its diverse types (individual, dancing with a partner, group dances, ritual, folk, Latin American, typical or non-typical style, mixed, etc.). I am only interested in dance as a form of continuous, rule-governed spatial movement by human subjects. I also have pretty much the same thing in mind when speaking about military training, that is, a form of continuous, rule-governed spatial movement on the part of its protagonists.

Continuous Integration and Its Tools

Continuous integration has been around for a while now, but the habits it suggests are far from common practice. Automated builds, a thorough test suite, and committing to the mainline branch every day sound simple at first, but they require a responsible team to implement and constant care. What starts with improved tooling can be a catalyst for long-lasting change in your company's shipping culture. Continuous integration is more than a set of practices, it's a mindset that has one thing in mind: increasing customer value. The Web extra at http://youtu.be/tDl_cHfrJZo is an audio podcast of the Tools of the Trade column discusses how continuous integration is more than a set of practices, it's a mindset that has one thing in mind: increasing customer value.

Green Marketing to Young Adult Students: Is It Effective or Not? (A Research on the College Students of India in the Age Group of 17-25)

Green Marketing involves building lucrative customer relationship with concern and care for the environment. The aim is to reduce the negative effect of the organisation’s activities on the environment and make the entire process from production till supply of product eco-friendly. Almost all the organizations across the world are engaging in this process but are unaware of the results which this campaigns/process are generating. This research paper aims to study the effectiveness of green marketing by the firms on a specific consumer group i.e. students in the age group of 17-25.Many companies like Classmate(ITC), Coke derive a substantial market share from the student consumer groups. For companies to be successful in green marketing campaigns, they need to ensure that consumers are actually aware of the idea of this concept. They should have a concern about the nature & environment. Then only, they will be affected such campaigns otherwise the efforts will be wasted. Keeping this thing in mind, the research invokes mind-boggling facts which can significantly affect the behavior of various consumer good companies.

A Study of Knowledge & Awareness Regarding HIV / AIDS among Nursing Students

Background: HIV/AIDS can be called our modern pandemic, affecting both industrialized and developing countries. According to UNAIDS estimates, there are 33.3 million people living with HIV in which 30.8 millions are adult (15.5 millions are women) and around 2.5 millions are children. During 2009 some 2.6 million people newly infected with HIV and an estimated 1.5 million people died from AIDS. So HIV today is a threat to men, women and children of all continents. Due to frequent and prolonged contact with the patients, nursing students are being identified as a potential high risk group for the HIV/AIDS spread so keeping this thing in mind we have selected the nursing students for the study to assess their level of knowledge&awareness regarding HIV/AIDS. Research Question: What is the level of knowledge and awareness among Nursing students regarding various aspects of HIV/AIDS? Objective: To assess the level of knowledge and their awareness regarding HIV/AID Study Design: Cross Sectional Study Setting and Participants: All Nursing Students of SVS Nursing College, Mahabubnagar. Methodology: After the ethical clearance, the Present study was carried out in the last week of November 2011,with the aim to assess the status of knowledge and awareness regarding HIV/AIDS among 2nd, 3rd & final year nursing students of SVS college of nursing, Mahabubnagar A.P. For collection of data a pre designed, pre tested questionnaire were given to all the participants to fill up during the class in the lecture gallery who were present on that day. The data was collected and analyzed in descriptive statistical method. Results: Out of total 190 nursing students, 168 (88.42%) students participated in this study, in which 83% were female & 17% were male. Most of the students (96%) were in the age group of 18-24 years. The full form of HIV and AIDS were not known to 48% & 17% participants respectively. Around 83% participants said that sexual route is the most common route for HIV transmission. Around 3.58% participants were having the misconception that HIV transmission is possible through hugging, sharing toilet seats, towels, utensils, shaking hands with HIV infected patients. Most of students (95.23%) were aware regarding the various preventive measures for HIV/AIDS. Around 86.90% participants were aware that most commonly immune System is affected by HIV. Some 14.88% participants said that Vaccine is available for HIV/AIDS&15.47% said that it is curable. Around 31% participants were afraid of cross infection in giving nursing care to HIV/AIDS. Around 44.50% participants said that ART in PEP for HIV/AIDS is not useful.

PA01.66. Importance of upayogasamstha in relation to digestion of the food

Purpose: According to Ayurveda food is the cause for both health and diseases i.e. wholesome and unwholesome food is responsible for happiness and misery respectively. Also it is one among the three tripods of life. Beside the quality and quantity of the food it is also very much important that how it is taken because food taken in improper way can lead to various diseases. Keeping this thing in mind there are 8 factors (Aharavidhivisheshayatana) mentioned in Vimana sthana of Charak Samhita which determines the utility of the food. Upayogasamstha is the eighth factor among these which deals with the dietetic rules. Further at another place six factors which are necessary for the transformation/digestion of the food (Aharaparinamakara Bhava) are mentioned. So, the study was planned to evaluate the relation between Upayogasamstha and digestion of the food. Method: The data from various texts along with brihatrayi has been collected, compiled and analysed to get some fruitful conclusion. Result: Each factor mentioned in Upayogasamstha has some scientific reason behind it and has got direct impact on digestion of the food as well as on the health status of the person. It was found that improper taking of food has been directly mentioned as causative factor for certain diseases. Conclusion: It can be concluded that in the field of dietetics especially digestion along with factors affecting it, has been mentioned scientifically and at very minute level in Ayurveda by following this many kind of diseases arising in today's era can be prevented.

Small Books about God: The American Artistry of Jonathan Edwards and Robert Beavers

The rectangle of book has become a circle by shooting.1 -Robert Beavers How large is that thing in Mind which they call Thought? Is Love square, or round?2 -Jonathan Edwards The common cartoon of American preacher and theologian Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)-summed up simply by words fire and brimstone-rapidly loses its bold outline under Perry Miller's biographical lens. Miller, renowned intellectual historian of New England mind and founder of Yale edition of Works of Jonathan Edwards, narrates Edwards' lifelong labor to tolerate and resolve collision between divine sovereignty and modern science, to crafta colonial porous enough to absorb Enlightenment insight. In exchange for a picture of supreme spokesman of Puritan authoritarianism, biblical literalism, and a punishing God, Miller paints an Edwards who is one of America's five or six major artists, who happened to work with ideas instead of with poems or novels, one of those pure artists through whom deepest urgencies . . . of their country become articulate, and, emboldening his claims even further, the prefigurement of artist in America.3 Edwards' creative and philosophical powers are under-recognized but no less potent because theology was his medium; Miller calls him a psychologist posing as theologian. Primitive, aboriginal, and ahead of his time, he met forces [of this country] in their infancy, [foresaw] their tendencies.4 For Miller, then, Edwards represents a great arc of continuity, cultivated in original soil and prescient of persistent speculative strains in culture. For more than four decades, American avant-garde filmmaker Robert Beavers (b. 1949) has made lucid and delicate films, condensed odes to pulsing vitality of both spectator and medium. They exist at what Susan Oxtoby has called intersection of structural and lyrical filmmaking traditions and were shot mostly in locations across Europe and Greece, in dialogue with natural world and work of artists both known (including Ruskin, Leonardo, and Borromini) and unknown. Much of his work involves study of and identification with hand- and craftwork (his films feature intricate labors of sewing, bookbinding, cooking, stone-chiseling) and incorporates his reliance, in front of camera, on intuitive knowledge and gestures of his own hands-antidotes to forces of intention. Beavers has articulated an original film language through his enduring investigations of colored light and construction of space within frame; he invented variously shaped mattes to obscure and contain aspects of image, and produced his own gelatin filters to generate subtle varieties of colored light. And starting in 1990s, Beavers spent a decade reediting many of his films in creation of My Hand Outstretched to Winged Distance and Sightless Measure, an 18-film cycle of completed works made since 1967. There is little superficial encouragement for bringing Beavers and Edwards into common view. Born in Massachusetts, Beavers leftthe US in 1967 with his longtime partner, filmmaker Gregory Markopoulos (1928-1992), and has lived in Europe ever since. Indeed, Beavers' Ruskin (1975/1997), film that catalyzed my desire to look at two artists together, is thoroughly steeped in Europe. The last of a series of four films made in Italy and Switzerland (after From Notebook Of . . . , The Painting, and Work Done), Ruskin was inspired by its namesake's The Stones of Venice and was shot in sites of English critic's writings in Venice, Alps, and London. Ruskin opens amid swamps and cathedral of Torcello, island just north of Venice that was a trading and economic center until twelfth century, and comes to dwell in city itself among architectural details (windows, arches, gargoyles, carvings) and building exteriors that Ruskin drew and wrote about in Stones. …

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ACO Tests May Start Next Year

Just about the only thing that experts can agree on about accountable care organizations right now is that the idea behind them is still in its infancy.“It's not exactly clear that, when people are talking about ACOs, [everyone] has the same thing in mind,” said Dr. Francis J. Crosson, senior fellow in the Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy in Oakland, Calif., and a member of a task force on ACOs that was recently convened by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).In general, ACOs would allow primary care physicians, specialists, and hospitals to form a partnership to provide care to a group of patients. The idea is that all the providers would work together to improve quality and manage costs and that they would share in any savings that were produced as a result. Participating in an ACO will mean shifting a system's focus from an acute, episodic care model to a prevention and wellness model, according to Dr. Eric Bieber, chief medical officer at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Northeast Ohio.The Medicare shared-savings ACO program is set to launch in January 2012. ACOs may also end up being part of testing performed by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, a new office created under the law, beginning in January 2011.In the near term, there is likely to be a range of ACO models, Dr. Crosson predicted. Some will be tightly constructed around integrated delivery systems in which physicians and hospitals are part of the same economic entity. Others will be looser models that bring together a group of physicians and hospitals that are financially separate from one another, he said. Just about the only thing that experts can agree on about accountable care organizations right now is that the idea behind them is still in its infancy. “It's not exactly clear that, when people are talking about ACOs, [everyone] has the same thing in mind,” said Dr. Francis J. Crosson, senior fellow in the Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy in Oakland, Calif., and a member of a task force on ACOs that was recently convened by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). In general, ACOs would allow primary care physicians, specialists, and hospitals to form a partnership to provide care to a group of patients. The idea is that all the providers would work together to improve quality and manage costs and that they would share in any savings that were produced as a result. Participating in an ACO will mean shifting a system's focus from an acute, episodic care model to a prevention and wellness model, according to Dr. Eric Bieber, chief medical officer at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Northeast Ohio. The Medicare shared-savings ACO program is set to launch in January 2012. ACOs may also end up being part of testing performed by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, a new office created under the law, beginning in January 2011. In the near term, there is likely to be a range of ACO models, Dr. Crosson predicted. Some will be tightly constructed around integrated delivery systems in which physicians and hospitals are part of the same economic entity. Others will be looser models that bring together a group of physicians and hospitals that are financially separate from one another, he said.

Built Environment: Turn Up the Heat for Respiratory Health

Vol. 116, No. 7 EnvironewsOpen AccessBuilt Environment: Turn Up the Heat for Respiratory Health Adrian Burton Adrian Burton Search for more papers by this author Published:1 July 2008https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.116-a291AboutSectionsPDF ToolsDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InReddit In the dog days of summer it’s hard to think about turning up the thermostat, but keep one thing in mind as the cooler months approach: people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) whose houses are cold in cold weather are more likely to suffer poorer respiratory health than those whose houses are warmer, according to a study published online 26 March 2008 ahead of print in the European Journal of Public Health. Turning up the heat might therefore lead to more benefits than just warm feet.“This is the first time a direct relationship has been found between the number of hours a house is warm and respiratory health status—in this case that of patients with COPD,” explains first author Liesl Osman, a research development advisor with the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Oxford University. “And it would seem that this relationship is most marked for smokers.”The researchers monitored the temperature of the living rooms and bedrooms of 148 COPD patients in Aberdeen, Scotland, for 1 week between October and May (all of which are cold months in Scotland). They tracked how often each living room was kept at a temperature of at least 21°C (69.8°F)—which the U.K. government recommends be maintained for at least 9 hours per day for maximal energy efficiency—and how long each bedroom maintained a temperature of at least 18°C (64.4°F). The subjects also completed questionnaires to determine their respiratory and general health status.Overall, people who lived in homes in which the living room temperature was more typically at least 21°C for at least 9 hours per day had significantly better respiratory health (that is, fewer exacerbations of their underlying COPD or respiratory infections) than subjects who lived in homes where this temperature was maintained less often. “Unfortunately,” Osman adds, “we also saw that over fifty percent of the households involved in this study were colder than recommended.” No association was seen between respiratory health scores and bedroom temperatures.In a post hoc analysis, the protective effect of warmth was statistically significant for smokers but did not reach significance for nonsmokers. “Prolonged cold weakens our resistance to infection,” explains Osman. “Perhaps this is accentuated in smokers with COPD, resulting in overall poorer respiratory health.”Philippa Howden-Chapman, director of the Housing and Health Research Programme at the University of Otago in Wellington, New Zealand, also points out that cold homes could be the cause of poorer health in people with other underlying diseases. “[We have] shown that increasing warmth leads to improvements in health for most respiratory diseases, and our recently completed Housing, Heating and Health Study found warmer temperatures improved the respiratory symptoms of children with asthma,” she says. The literature also suggests that coronary conditions are affected by indoor temperatures, particularly in temperate countries.“The key question that needs to be answered is whether improvements in home heating will actually bring out the benefits to health [that may be] predicted using data from this cross-sectional study,” remarks Anna Hansell, a clinical fellow at Imperial College London. Howden-Chapman agrees: “This is a cross-sectional study, so causal conclusions really shouldn’t be drawn from it, though the results are very interesting. The next step would be to [look at] daily measures to see whether short-term exposure to cold influences COPD symptoms. This would also help determine the precision of [these] long-term measures.”The United Kingdom has social programs to help people with low incomes or poorer housing increase the energy efficiency of their homes, which can help conserve heat. Given today’s sky-high oil and gas prices, the results of this study could mean such schemes are more needed than ever.FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Vol. 116, No. 7 July 2008Metrics About Article Metrics Publication History Originally published1 July 2008Published in print1 July 2008 Financial disclosuresPDF download License information EHP is an open-access journal published with support from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health. All content is public domain unless otherwise noted. Note to readers with disabilities EHP strives to ensure that all journal content is accessible to all readers. However, some figures and Supplemental Material published in EHP articles may not conform to 508 standards due to the complexity of the information being presented. If you need assistance accessing journal content, please contact [email protected]. Our staff will work with you to assess and meet your accessibility needs within 3 working days.

What is the relationship between social constructivism and Piagetian constructivism? An analysis of the characteristics of the ideas within both theories

For twenty years, social constructivism has been a paradigm in science teaching and not an easy bedfellow for piagetian constructivism, even though both have had the same thing in mind… a study of the learner. For this reason we attempt to find connections and bridges between them so that both may be enriched, to the benefit of science teaching.

Psychoanalysis And The Public Sphere 10th Annual Conference: 'The State Psychoanalysis Is In'

This conference, often referred to affectionately as the 'Free Associations' or 'FA' conference, celebrated its 10th anniversary in November 1996. For a decade it has functioned as an annual pilgrimage or homecoming for a disparate and changing group of academics, clinicians, political activists, consultants and cultural theorists, some of whom would lay claim to all these titles. What, if anything, unites these people is a wish to explore the social and political dimensions of psychoanalytic theory and practice, and the application of psychoanalytic thinking in the public sphere. This is no small ambition, if only because of the recurring difficulty of polarisation in thinking about the connections between intra-psychic and sociological experience. Holding more than one thing in mind at the same time, in order to better understand both, has been the constant preoccupation of the conference.

Review of the Polls: Images of God among Americans

Although an overwhelming proportion of Americans profess a belief in God, people do not of course all have the same thing in mind when they affirm such belief. Believers differ in their notions of the Deity and in their choice of images for describing God. Psychological studies of religious belief have often pointed to these differences (e.g., Gorsuch, 1968; Spilka, Armatas & Nussbaum, 1964; Pitts, 1977). Typically these studies inquire into adjective ratings about God in an attempt to uncover as many images and conceptual dimensions as possible. Scores of images and conceptions have been identified in the research, often on the basis of small and quite limited samples. Very little large-scale data are available on the images and conceptions of God held by Americans. Cross-cultural studies have shown that Americans emphasize paternal qualities in describing the Deity more than do people from some other countries; it is alleged that God images tend to become more maternal with age and for respondents with greater education, but on the whole the conceptions are highly paternal for both males and females (see Vergote et al., 1969; Vergote & Tamayo, 1980). Often the crosscultural research is itself limited by small and unrepresentative samples that make for problems of generalizability in describing the beliefs of Americans. Generally national surveys on religion in the United States focus simply on belief or strength of belief commitment, but seldom on the content of the belief itself. Even the major conceptions and images of God, what sectors of the society hold to them, and the social and

Introduction of a matrix structure into an R & D establishment

AbstractMatrix organization is increasingly being written about in terms which suggest that it is almost axiomatic that it is the best way of structuring an R & D lab. In this paper we wish to introduce a note of scepticism into the discussion, for the following reasons. Firstly, we suspect that not everyone has the same thing in mind when discussing matrix organizations. Secondly, we believe that there are many circumstances under which it clearly is not the best way of organizing, although there are plenty under which it is. Thirdly, we have seen in use many variants of the structure, suggesting to us that while there is an underlying, unifying concept at work, it needs to be much modified in most cases before it can successfully be applied. Finally, any reorganizing is a hazardous business, and a change to matrix involves particular difficulties of its own which need highlighting.

Souvenir of a Petrograd Evening

IFE began late at the Wandering Dog, so we went first to a perL formance at the Mikhailovsky Theatre. I cannot recall what the play was but retain the association in my mind of the Mikhailovsky with the urbanities of Moliere; probably the play was his. Anyway it was the Mikhailovsky with its atmosphere of warmth and expectancy, its brilliant audience, and its martinet-trained flunkies, one outside or inside every door. That, however, faded with the later impressions of the night. From the theater a few short steps took us to the entrance of the Wandering Dog, the entrance to a sort of cellar below the cold and slush of the square. My first look disclosed a long dim hall on both sides of which were improvised coat rooms and laughing check girls trying to bring order out of chaos. It was cluttered with wet fur coats lying on the floor. People were everywhere, choking the entrance, good-humoredly chatting, jostling one another, squatting on the heaps of furs, but more generally active in attempts to penetrate the inner rooms. They seemed an oddly assorted lot. Philistines were few, for the management discouraged them, and if any such appeared they never got to the center of interest nor probably ever tried again. This Bohemian sea coast had a snobbery of its own. I believe that no high entrance fee or cover charge was asked but would have been paid gaily had it been demanded. Financial gain was the least thing in mind. At that place and time, there were eager patrons to support readily and sometimes extravagantly such an enterprise. Cultivated enjoyment was their sole aim. Behind us the door opened to admit a gust of fresh cold air and the figure of a woman wrapped in furs, from which rose a head of great serious beauty. There was a gasp of appreciation for the unique quality of Karsavina. There was perhaps also a touch of anticipation, for it was known that sometimes she danced here superbly costumed, on magnificent rugs loaned by collectors for the occasion, but that was for a small company of invited guests and not for an ordinary evening like this. A slight, agile man of about forty emerged from the inside room and stood beside the crazed mirror which partly reflected but more distorted the lively movements of the crowd. He was informally