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Burris, Christopher T., and Fabio Sani. "The Immutable Likeness of “Being”: Experiencing the Self as Timeless." International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 24, no. 2 (January 13, 2014): 85–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10508619.2013.771964.
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Aoki, Miwa, Masayo Fujimura, and Masahiko Taniguchi. "The shape of the dust-likeness locus of self-similar sets." Journal of Fractal Geometry 1, no. 3 (2014): 335–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.4171/jfg/10.
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Kohn, Spencer C., Ali Momen, Eva Wiese, Yi-Ching Lee, and Tyler H. Shaw. "The Consequences of Purposefulness And Human-Likeness on Trust Repair Attempts Made by Self-Driving Vehicles." Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 63, no. 1 (November 2019): 222–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1071181319631381.
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Autonomous systems are rapidly gaining the capacity to recognize their own errors and utilize social strategies to mitigate the trust deficit that accompanies those errors. While previous research has catalogued the effects of trust repair attempts in human-human relationships, much remains unknown about the consequences of similar strategies when administered by autonomous systems such as self-driving vehicles. While we tend to treat computers like social actors, autonomous systems may have a wider spectrum of perceived human-likeness and may be subject to different interpretations of the purposefulness of their errors. This paper seeks to understand the consequences of these factors on the effectiveness of trust repair attempts administered by self-driving cars, and the results highlight the importance of considering human-likeness and purposefulness in the design of autonomous systems.
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Rey, Kevin Tony. "Pembelajaran dengan Sistem Konstruktivistik sebagai Usaha Mewujudkan Aktualisasi Diri yang Memiliki Gambar dan Rupa Allah." HARVESTER: Jurnal Teologi dan Kepemimpinan Kristen 4, no. 1 (June 27, 2019): 22–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.52104/harvester.v4i1.2.
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Humans are created in the image and likeness of God. This divine image is an essential potential in human beings, which is immediately damaged and lost because of sin. But by the redemptive work of Christ, the man who believed in Him regained his self-image recovery. This article aims to show one of the learning patterns with constructive systems in Christian Religious Education in an effort to realize self-actualization that has the image and likeness of God. By using descriptive methods, the conclusion of this literature study shows that learning with this system is able to help students to realize their actualization that has the image and likeness of God. Abstrak: Manusia diciptakan menurut gambar dan rupa Allah. Citra ilahi ini merupakan potensi hakiki dalam diri manusia, yang dalam seketika rusak dan hilang oleh karena dosa. Namun oleh karya penebusan Kristus, manusia yang percaya kepada-Nya beroleh kembali pemulihan gambar diri itu. Artikel ini bertujuan untuk menunjukkan salah satu pola belajar dengan sistem konstruk-tivistik dalam Pendidikan Agama Kristen dalam upaya mewujudkan aktualisasi diri yang memiliki gambar dan rupa Allah tersebut. Dengan menggunakan metode deskriptif, simpulan kajian literatur ini memperlihatkan bahwa pembelajaran dengan sistem ini mampu menolong siswa untuk mewujudkan aktualisasi dirinya yang memiliki gambar dan rupa Allah.
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Allen, Hannah, Nuala Brady, and Colin Tredoux. "Perception of ‘Best Likeness’ to Highly Familiar Faces of Self and Friend." Perception 38, no. 12 (January 2009): 1821–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/p6424.
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Williams, Justin H. G. "Imitation and the effort of learning." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 31, no. 1 (February 2008): 40–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x07003329.
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AbstractCentral to Hurley's argument is the position that imitation is “automatic” and requires inhibition. The evidence for this is poor. Imitation is intentional, involves active comparison between self and other, and involves new learning to improve self-other likeness. Abnormal imitation behaviour may result from impaired learning rather than disinhibition. Mentalizing may be similarly effortful and dependent upon learning about others.
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Feigenbaum, Gail. ""A likeness in the tomb": Annibale's Self-Portrait Drawing in the J. Paul Getty Museum." Getty Research Journal 2 (January 2010): 19–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/grj.2.23005406.
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BEDLINGTON, MARTHA M., CURTIS J. BRAUKMANN, KATHRYN A. RAMP, and MONTROSE M. WOLF. "A Comparison of Treatment Environments in Community-Based Group Homes for Adolescent Offenders." Criminal Justice and Behavior 15, no. 3 (September 1988): 349–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093854888015003007.
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Evaluations of community-based programs for delinquents have usually addressed differential outcomes or cost-efficiency, but generally ignored the treatment environments themselves. Yet milieu characteristics are important in assessing treatment quality. The present research examined several environmental dimensions in 11 group home programs. Teaching-Family programs scored significantly higher on observational and self-report measures of staff-youth relationships and interactions, staff teaching activities and disapproval of deviance, the family-likeness and pleasantness of the program atmosphere, and the extent of prosocial behavior displayed by the participants. Several of the measures were significantly negatively correlated with self-reported delinquency. The results suggest that, contrary to some stereotypes, behavioral programs can be pleasant, positive, and familylike while offering structured treatment.
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Lundström, Catrin. "Creating ‘international communities’ in southern Spain: Self-segregation and ‘institutional whiteness’ in Swedish lifestyle migration." European Journal of Cultural Studies 22, no. 5-6 (April 2, 2018): 799–816. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367549418761793.
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This article examines intra-European relations in narratives of Swedish lifestyle migrants living permanently or part-time on the Spanish Sun Coast. It pays particular attention to the complexities of Swedish migrants’ cultural identities and patterns of self-segregation in the Spanish society by investigating the following questions: How do boundaries of social networks that Swedish lifestyle migrants participate in, or interrelate, with a sense of ‘likeness’? In what ways are the formation of these ‘international’ networks mediated through ideas of cultural similarity and parallel difference, and how do such notions both override and uphold boundaries tied to social, cultural and racial divisions? It is argued that the formation of so-called ‘international communities’ on the Spanish Sun Coast tend to cluster mainly north-western European lifestyle migrants, which calls for an analysis of ‘orientations’ towards a certain ‘likeness’, and the function of these spaces and communities as spaces of ‘institutional whiteness’ that work as a ‘meeting point’ where some bodies tend to feel comfortable as they already belong here. The social and cultural boundaries that surround these communities destabilises the idea of a common, culturally homogeneous European identity and display intra-European racial divisions mediated through discourses of cultural differences. What appears is a south–north divide built upon a deep Swedish postcolonial identification with Anglo Saxon and north-western European countries and cultures, and a parallel dis-identification with (the former colonial powers in) southern Europe.
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Freer, Alexander. "A Genealogy of Narcissism: Percy Shelley’s Self-Love." Nineteenth-Century Literature 74, no. 1 (June 1, 2019): 1–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2019.74.1.1.
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Alexander Freer, “A Genealogy of Narcissism: Percy Shelley’s Self-Love” (pp. 1–29) Readers have long considered Percy Shelley narcissistic. They have good reason: his account of love is premised on a lover’s thirst for likeness. Yet Shelley’s idea of love also obliges us to rethink the concept of narcissism, and especially its relations to solipsism and selfishness. Shelley works through Plato’s accounts of love in his translation of The Symposium, titled The Banquet (1818), and the accompanying Discourse on the Manners of the Antient Greeks, before developing a related but distinct account of his own, in which lovers seek from each other the things that they already know but cannot otherwise enjoy. Ultimately, Shelley’s self-love is not a form of solitary satisfaction, but an ethical and aesthetic project that is dependent on the recognition of another. Tracing Shelley’s thinking on love from his engagement with Plato to his own poetry and prose, this essay develops an alternate, non-Freudian genealogy of narcissism.
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Shamma, Tarek. "Horror and likeness: the quest for the Self and the imagining of the Other inThe sheltering sky." Critical Arts 25, no. 2 (June 2011): 242–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2011.569070.
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Zelen, Joyce. "The Self-Promotion of a Libertine Bad Boy." Rijksmuseum Bulletin 66, no. 4 (December 15, 2018): 362–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.52476/trb.9764.
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The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam owns one of the most curious portraits ever made in the seventeenth century – the likeness of the Dutch classical scholar and notorious erotomaniac Hadriaan Beverland (1650-1716), who was banished from the Dutch Republic in 1679 because of his scandalous publications. In the portrait – a brunaille – the libertine rake sits at a table with a prostitute; a provocative scene. Why did this young humanist promote such a confrontational image of himself? In this article the author analyses the portrait and explores Beverland’s motives for his remarkable manner of self-promotion, going on to argue that it was the starting point for a calculated campaign of portraits. Over the years Beverland commissioned at least four more portraits of himself, including one in which he is shown drawing the naked back of a statue of Venus. Each of his portraits was conceived with a view to giving his changeable reputation a push in the right direction. They attest to a remarkable and extraordinarily self-assured expression of identity seldom encountered in seventeenth-century portraiture.
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L'Abate, Luciano. "Hurt feelings and personality socialization in the family." Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa 16, no. 2 (August 2000): 113–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0102-37722000000200004.
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The purpose of this article is to summarize a developmental, relational theory of personality socialization in the family and other settings. This theory consists of two assumptions about space and time, from which are derived two respective processes about the ability to love and the ability to negotiate. The contents of the theory consist of three modalities: Being, Doing, and Having. From these processes and contents other models about a continuum of likeness, selfhood and personality propensities, priorities, and intimacy are developed. This theory can be evaluated in the laboratory through self-report, paper-and-pencil tests, and in applied or clinical settings through enrichment programs, workbooks, and therapeutic tasks.
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Ito, Hideaki. "From Native-speaker Likeness to Self-representation in Language: Views from the Acquisition of Japanese Transitive and Intransitive Verbs." Acta Linguistica Asiatica 11, no. 1 (January 30, 2021): 25–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/ala.11.1.25-36.
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This study considers the degree to which a language user’s own will is recognized in language education. It also looks at the use of Japanese transitive and intransitive verbs to reexamine the differentiation between language use that is native-like, and language use that is representative of the learner’s self. The reexamination indicates that shifting previous approach to a more usage-centric acquisition process can create opportunities for language users to make expressive choices focused on what they wish to say. This shift may be accomplished by introducing backward design and critical pragmatics into teaching practices, thereby enabling the pursuit of self-representing language use, and prompting individuality in each learner without binding the learner solely to linguistic rules.
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Feng, Zheling, Xiuqiang Lu, Lishe Gan, Qingwen Zhang, and Ligen Lin. "Xanthones, A Promising Anti-Inflammatory Scaffold: Structure, Activity, and Drug Likeness Analysis." Molecules 25, no. 3 (January 30, 2020): 598. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules25030598.
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Inflammation is the body’s self-protective response to multiple stimulus, from external harmful substances to internal danger signals released after trauma or cell dysfunction. Many diseases are considered to be related to inflammation, such as cancer, metabolic disorders, aging, and neurodegenerative diseases. Current therapeutic approaches include mainly non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and glucocorticoids, which are generally of limited effectiveness and severe side-effects. Thus, it is urgent to develop novel effective anti-inflammatory therapeutic agents. Xanthones, a unique scaffold with a 9H-Xanthen-9-one core structure, widely exist in natural sources. Till now, over 250 xanthones were isolated and identified in plants from the families Gentianaceae and Hypericaceae. Many xanthones have been disclosed with anti-inflammatory properties on different models, either in vitro or in vivo. Herein, we provide a comprehensive and up-to-date review of xanthones with anti-inflammatory properties, and analyzed their drug likeness, which might be potential therapeutic agents to fight against inflammation-related diseases.
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Wango, Kamau. "Personal Style in Portraiture Painting – ‘Visual Dialogues with Water’ Analysis of the Portraiture by Eddy Ochieng." East African Journal of Arts and Social Sciences 2, no. 1 (October 3, 2020): 134–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.37284/eajass.2.1.220.
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Portraiture is arguably one of the most celebrated genres of art and artistic expression through the ages. Artists have always sought to create depictions of themselves in self-portraits as well as the depiction of sitters through in-person posed sessions, referencing, or imagination. They have also used portraiture for artistic expression particularly when aiming to depict human feelings and emotions for the practical reason that human expression itself is synonymous with facial expression. It is only through the study of physical facial expression that an artist is able to derive artistic expression in a continuum that ranges from extreme joy signified by laughter to extreme distress, signified by tears. In between the continuum is a whole retinue of feelings and emotions, such as amusement, happiness, irritation, anger, sorrow, despair, fear, anxiety, sadness, and many other human manifestations that emanate from life’s experiences. Apart from the obvious outer facial expressions, there are also the innate expressions that underscore personality and character that artists wish to unearth, study, and explore in their subjects. To execute and achieve these expressions in portraiture, the artist uses selected media, styles, and techniques that best suit the desired objective. This paper posits that there exists a correlation between individual style and the effectiveness of the intended purpose of portraiture where effectiveness applies to the communicative or expressive value of a portrait as well as its overall acclaim. It must be noted that there is no portraiture that lacks intent, be it portrayal of likeness from self-portraits or sitters or portraits derived from photographs, thematic referencing that leads to the depiction of certain facial expressions in subject matter or creating portraiture from imagination including surrealistic inspirations. When certain portraiture is at times perceived as not being effective in terms of its intent, it is fair to conclude that this may often be as a result of the personal style of the artist or its execution being incompatible with the intended purpose. Hence viewers fail to see or extract what was intended for them to decipher essentially because they are distracted by the personal style. In the same token, when portraiture is seen to be effective, it is often presupposed that this is a result of the personal style of the artist and its execution being deemed compatible with its intended purpose. Hence to a significant extent, the viewer is able to extract this purpose because they are aided by rather than distracted by the style and specifically, personal stylistic rendition. This paper examines the portraiture of Eddy Ochieng, an outstanding Kenyan hyperrealist in order to ascertain whether there exists this visual correlation between his personal style and the intent of his portraiture. He embraces the hyperrealism style featuring some self-portraits as well as of others derived from photographs. The inquiry is whether this style delves into any other meaning other than the quest for the photographic representation of likeness and whether the likeness itself is effectively extracted.
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Soleh, A. Khudori. "FILSAFAT ISYRAQI SUHRAWARDI." ESENSIA: Jurnal Ilmu-Ilmu Ushuluddin 12, no. 1 (January 22, 2011): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.14421/esensia.v12i1.699.
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Isyraqi or isyraqiyah (illuminative) is the thought developed by Suhrawardi al- Maqtul by integrating between the teachings of Sufism and philosophy. In detail, according to Hussein Nasr, isyraqi is based on five sources of thought that are Sufism, Islamic pariphatetic philosophy, pre-Islamic philosophy, the wisdom of ancient Iran, and the teachings of Zoroaster. The main doctrine essentially consists of two concepts, namely gradation of essence and self-awareness. The first concept relates to the ontological question, while the second relates to the epistemological question. From both concepts then born third teachings, mitsâl nature, in which the ontological structure of spiritual reality or ‘high nature’ is seemed to have a likeness or take forms in concrete picture of matter nature or 'lower nature'.
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De Coensel, Bert, and Dick Botteldooren. "The Rhythm of the Urban Soundscape." Noise & Vibration Worldwide 38, no. 9 (October 2007): 11–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1260/095745607782689827.
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The influence of noise on the quality of the urban living environment has traditionally been studied focusing on negative effects on man, such as noise annoyance and sleep disturbance. Recently a more holistic approach, including positive and negative aspects as well as non-residential functions of the urban environment, has gained renewed interest. The label “urban soundscape” is often used to refer to this approach. Research towards selection and quantification of the acoustic descriptors of the urban soundscape is, however, still in an early stage. This paper draws on the analogy with music and self-organization to propose an indicator for studying the temporal structure of the urban soundscape. Applicability is illustrated by drawing a map of music-likeness of the soundscape in an urban area.
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Pietsch, Theodore W. "Two unpublished photographic portraits of the American conchologist William Harper Pease (1824–1871)." Archives of Natural History 48, no. 1 (April 2021): 175–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2021.0695.
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A likeness of William Harper Pease, best known for his conchological exploration of the Hawaiian Islands, has remained unknown since his untimely death in 1871 at the age of 47. Recently, however, two photographic portraits of Pease have been identified in the archives of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum in Honolulu. The best of the two is a carte-de-visite of the typical size, showing Pease as a man in his mid- to late 30s, clean-shaven except for long, thick sideburns. Self-trained and highly motivated, Pease built an enormous collection of shells during his twenty years in the Hawaiian Islands, representing more than 4,000 species. Isolated though he was, he published 59 papers in reputable journals, describing and naming more than 500 species of mollusks.
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Wallace, Debra R., and Jaya Mini Gill. "The value of simulation debriefing in launching reduced anxiety and improved self-confidence in the clinical setting for accelerated baccalaureate nursing students." Journal of Nursing Education and Practice 9, no. 7 (March 25, 2019): 31. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/jnep.v9n7p31.
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Background and objective: The development of self-confidence is an essential element of a nurse in the clinical setting. Nursing educators discuss the addition of simulation and debriefing into learning activities, which play a central role in identifying the fundamental elements of safety and clinical efficiency.Methods: Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) competencies are used to examine the data supporting the effectiveness of simulation debriefing in nursing students registered in a fast-tracked baccalaureate program. This novel approach allows one to quantitatively measure the relationship between simulation debriefing, self-confidence and reduced anxiety.Results: Univariate Spearman Rho regression displays a significant positive correlation between reduced anxiety, self-confidence, and debriefing. The feedback received is encouraging, productive, and effective to learning. Logistic multivariate regression reveals debriefing mechanisms predict developing self-confidence and reducing anxiety, allowing the likeness on student’s clinical judgement and methodology to patient care (χ2 = 34.249, p = .011), sufficient time being provided to reflect and review clinical performance (χ2 = 0.68, p = .30) and identifying the justification for the actions and responses (χ2 = 119.365, p = .001).Conclusions: Debriefing is a central element that can be applied as a teaching strategy during simulation. This study offers further understanding of the role of debriefing in enhancing self-confidence and reducing anxiety in nursing students. This is a critical learning component and ought to be applicably focused in nursing education.
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Krinks, Philip. "The End of Love?" Revista Archai, no. 29 (March 31, 2020): e02906. http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/1984-249x_29_6.
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Plato’s Symposium contains two accounts of eros which explicitly aim to reach a telos. The first is the technocratic account of the doctor Eryximachus, who seeks an exhaustive account of eros, common to all things with a physical nature. For him medical techne can create an orderly erotic harmony; while religion is defined as the curing of disorderly eros. Against this Socrates recounts the priestess Diotima finding a telos, not in technical exhaustiveness, but in a dialectical definition of eros in the light of the good. What is common to all human beings is the desire to be in eternal relation to the good. All technai are forms of poiesis, by which things pass from being to not being. The erotic harmony recommended by Eryximachus, no less than the Aristophanes” recommendation of eros as “of a half, or of a whole’, is subject to the question whether “it happens to be good’. A self-harmonisation produced by techne can no more evade the sovereignty of good, than can projects of self-completion with a beloved in our likeness.
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Schierbaum, Sonja. "Ockham on the Possibility of Self-Knowledge: Knowing Acts without Knowing Subjects." Vivarium 52, no. 3-4 (September 11, 2014): 220–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685349-12341276.
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My aim in this paper is to show that William Ockham (ca. 1287-1347) succeeds in accounting for a particular kind of self-knowledge, although in doing so he restricts the direct cognitive access to mental acts and states as they occur, in a way similar to the restriction in contemporary debates on self-knowledge. In particular, a considerable number of Ockham-scholars have argued that Ockham’s theory of mental content bears a substantial likeness to contemporary ‘externalist’ approaches, and I will argue for the success of this theory in three steps: first, I show that, although the form of what is judged (‘I am F’) implies the ascription of an act to oneself (as the subject of the act), through ‘intuition’ it suffices to directly cognize the act but not the subject. In Ockham’s conception, intuition is a specific kind of singular cognition. In the second step I show that, according to Ockham’s thesis of mental language, Person is an aspect of mental verbs and not of acts of intuition. Lastly I argue that the correctness of first-person judgments about one’s acts is guaranteed by an ontological fact, and not an epistemological fact. It becomes apparent that this reading is compatible with an epistemological externalism.
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Chatterjee, Ronjaunee. "PRECARIOUS LIVES: CHRISTINA ROSSETTI AND THE FORM OF LIKENESS." Victorian Literature and Culture 45, no. 4 (November 8, 2017): 745–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150317000195.
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In its anonymous reviewof Christina Rossetti'sSpeaking Likenesses(1874), theAcademynotes rather hopelessly: “this will probably be one of the most popular children's books this winter. We wish we could understand it” (606). The reviewer – who later dwells on the “uncomfortable feeling” generated by this children's tale and its accompanying images – still counts as the most generous among the largely puzzled and horrified readership of Rossetti's story about three sets of girls experiencing violence and failure in their respective fantasy worlds (606). While clearly such dystopic plots are not out of place in Victorian literature about children, something about Rossetti's unusual narrative bothered her contemporaries. John Ruskin, for instance, bluntly wondered how Rossetti and Arthur Hughes, who illustrated the story, together could “sink so low” (qtd. in Auerbach and Knoepflmacher 318). In any case, the book still sold on the Christmas market, and a few months later, Rossetti would publishAnnus Domini, a benign pocketbook of daily prayers that stands in stark contrast to the grim prose ofSpeaking Likenesses.It is therefore tempting to cast this work of children's fiction as a strange anomaly in Rossetti's oeuvre, which from the 1870s, beginning withAnnus Domini, to her death in 1894, became almost exclusively dominated by devotional prose and poetry. In contrast, I argue in the following essay thatSpeaking Likenessespoints to a widespread interest throughout Rossetti's writing – but especially in her most well-known poems fromGoblin Market and Other Poems(1862) andA Prince's Progress(1866) – in alternative modes of sociality that refract a conceptual preoccupation with likeness, rather than difference. Following traditions of critical thought that have paid increasing attention to relations that resist oppositional logic – Stephanie Engelstein and Eve Kosovsky Sedgwick's late work comes to mind here – I establish the primacy of a horizontal axis of similarity in bothSpeaking Likenessesand Rossetti's most canonical poem, “Goblin Market.” For Rossetti, the lure of similarity, or minimal difference, manifests itself most often in siblinghood and more specifically, sisterhood, the dominant kinship relation throughout her lyrics fromGoblin Market and Other Poems. Sisterhood anchors the title poem I will examine in this essay, as well as shorter verses such as “Noble Sisters” and “Sister Maude.” At issue in such relations of likeness is the discreteness of a (typically) feminine self. For Rossetti, shunning oppositional structures of desire and difference that typically produce individuation (exemplified in the heterosexual couple form and the titles of her uneasy lyrics “He and She” and “Wife to Husband”) allows for a new (albeit perilous) space to carve out one's particularity as a gendered being.
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Nissim, Dafna. "nr="213"Resemblance and Identification in Personal Devotion: The Images of St. Ursula Commissioned by Anne of Brittany*." Mediaevistik 33, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 213–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/med.2020.01.11.
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Abstract: Anne of Brittany commissioned three images of Saint Ursula, and I utilize these to develop a case study to demonstrate that a sense of familiarity with a holy figure was a factor in a worshipper choosing to engage with a particular saint. The iconography of Ursula’s portrayals in the Grandes Heures and Saint Ursula’s Nef reflects a likeness between Anne and the image toward which she directed her piety. I argue that they were commissioned by the queen to help her intensify her initial sense of identification with the saint. Queen Anne, a pious Christian and an educated woman, was familiar with patterns of thinking that enabled comparison and association while reading and contemplating on the vitae of saints. There were three points in Ursula’s vita that might have evoked a sense of kinship with the saint: they were both born in British lands, linked to a royal family, and were faced with marriages to foreign princes. These aspects received significant artistic attention in the portrayals of Ursula under discussion. However, the artists created the images with an interplay between the saint’s likeness to Queen Anne and a slight divergence, an approach that promoted identification with the saint but at the same time could motivate the celebrant to translate the saint’s virtues into her own life. Through an interdisciplinary perspective on the artworks and a survey of the relevant contemporary texts, this study demonstrates that the intimate and internal process of selecting a patron saint and the resulting worship with the aid of images enabled a devotee to negotiate a whole range of aspects linked to his/her self-identity and to promote religiosity and construction of secular aspects of his/her personality.
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Decock, Paul. "BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX’S READING OF THE SONG OF SONGS 2:4–5: WOUNDED BY LOVE – PUTTING ORDER IN LOVE." Journal for Semitics 24, no. 2 (November 17, 2017): 701–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/1013-8471/3476.
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Before focusing on the two important verses, this article first considers Bernard’s monastic approach to the reading of the Song of Songs and the sources of this approach in Origen’s commentary and sermons. Bernard like Origen presupposes that the main theme of the book is the transformation of the readers into deeper love. The image of “being wounded by love†and the theme of the “ordering of love†are taken from tradition and Bernard presents these in his own way in view of his primary audience, which are the monks of his monastery. This growth in love presupposes the self-knowledge of having been created in the image and likeness of God by which human perfection was seen as a sharing in God’s way of seeing and relating: to oneself, to one’s neighbours, and to the whole of created reality.
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Kumar, M. Vijay, M. Venkata Pramid Reddy, S. L. Jany Shabu, J. Refonaa, and S. Dhamodaran. "E-Learning Recommended System." Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience 17, no. 8 (August 1, 2020): 3463–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/jctn.2020.9211.
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In Hybrid e-learning recommender frameworks, to share the data between researcher is deficient, which makes it difficult to apply cross breed filtering (HF) proposal framework. We propose a communitarian filtering (CF) methods utilizing memory based separating to beat the issues which we experienced on crossover sifting strategies. Memory-based separating procedures utilize the whole client thing dataset to make various neighborhoods of clients. Neighborhood-based calculation decide the likeness between two clients or things, and produces an expectation for the client by taking the weighted normal of the considerable number of appraisals. Influence engendering implies that a student can advance toward dynamic students, and such practices can invigorate the moving practices of his neighbors. This self-association based suggestion approach accomplishes a steady structure dependent on circulated and base up practices of people. The trial results exhibit that memory based sifting strategies to give customized and diversified suggestions in e-learning situations.
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Chin, Young Ran, Hyo Young Lee, and Mi-Joung Lee. "Development and Validation of a Person-Centered Care Assessment Questionnaire for Daycare Centers for Older Adults." Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine 7 (January 2021): 233372142110362. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23337214211036274.
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Daycare services serve to prolong aging at home. This decreases both families’ care burden and the government’s financial burden. We identified key factors in the person-centered approach of South Korean daycare center workers to develop and validate a Korean person-centered care questionnaire. Twenty-one items were developed, and 10 expert interviews were conducted. The items were applied to 271 daycare center staff (19.2% male vs. 80.0% female, mean age = 50.68 ± 11.37 years) to evaluate their reliability and validity. Twenty items concerning intimate relationships and the environment, consumers’ self-determination, and home-likeness domains were derived, explaining 40.28%, 10.44%, and 6.97% of the total variance, respectively. The overall tool’s Cronbach’s alpha was 0.905, demonstrating internal consistency. Inter-rater agreement ranged from 0.221 (fair) to 0.765 (good). This tool will be useful for individual staff members as well as for the National Health Insurance Service’s evaluations of service quality at daycare centers.
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Ma, Jiyan, and Fei Wang. "Prion disease and the ‘protein-only hypothesis’." Essays in Biochemistry 56 (August 18, 2014): 181–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/bse0560181.
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Prion disease is the only naturally occurring infectious protein misfolding disorder. The chemical nature of the infectious agent has been debated for more than half a century. Early studies on scrapie suggested that the unusual infectious agent might propagate in the absence of nucleic acid. The ‘protein-only hypothesis’ provides a theoretical model to explain how a protein self-replicates without nucleic acid, which predicts that a prion, the proteinaceous infectious agent, propagates by converting its normal counterpart into the likeness of itself. Decades of studies have provided overwhelming evidence to support this hypothesis. The latest advances in generating infectious prions with bacterially expressed recombinant prion protein in the presence of cofactors not only provide convincing evidence supporting the ‘protein-only hypothesis’, but also indicate a role of cofactors in forming prion infectivity and encoding prion strains. In the present chapter, we review the literature regarding the chemical nature of the infectious agent, describe recent achievements in proving the ‘protein-only hypothesis’, and discuss the remaining questions in this research area.
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Abdul Manaf, Ahmad Azaini, Siti Nor Fatihah Ismail, and Mohd Rosli Arshad. "PERCEIVED VISUAL CGI FAMILIARITY TOWARDS UNCANNY VALLEY THEORY IN FILM." International Journal of Applied and Creative Arts 2, no. 1 (June 30, 2019): 7–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.33736/ijaca.1575.2019.
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In the enhancement of the advanced technology, the uncanny valley is becoming a high-stakes concern of the entertainment industry to produce good films and animations (Chaminade et al., 2007). Therefore, this study aims to analyse participants’ familiarity towards the usage of digital characters as actors. Then, this article is to convey on how the uncanny valley factors affect audience’s attention in watching films with computer graphic imagery (CGI) elements in films. The researcher has selected visual stimuli that are divided into (4 x 4 factorial design) with 2 subjects of realistic and accurate human characters, meanwhile the second stimuli, researcher selected 2 subjects with minimum characteristic of human likeness. The surveys conducted are self-administered manner with combination of videos and images, distributed online via email and social network. This research concludes, the more familiarity and expectations of the audiences, the higher discomfort feeling when looking to a CGI made character. This illustrates that the longer a duration of CG actors in action, the higher significant weaknesses and substantial of superficial visuals. Therefore, this research is beneficial to assists artists and digital creative directors in digital actor’s creation, and guidance for developing more realistic actors in future projects.
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Koch Piettre, Renée. "Anthropomorphism, Theatre, Epiphany: From Herodotus to Hellenistic Historians." Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 20, no. 1 (March 28, 2018): 189–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/arege-2018-0012.
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Abstract:This paper argues that, beginning with the Euripidean deus ex machina, dramatic festivals introduced a new standard into epiphanic rituals and experience. Through the scenic double énonciation, gods are seen by mythical heroes as gods, but by the Athenian spectators as costumed actors and fictive entities. People could scarcely believe these were ‘real’ gods, but would have no doubt been impressed by the scenic machinery. Thus the Homeric theme of a hero’s likeness to the gods developed into the Hellenistic theme of the godlike ruler’s (or actor’s) theatrical success (or deceit). So in the Athenians’ Hymn to Demetrius Poliorcetes, a victorious ruler entering a city is welcomed as a better god than the gods themselves. The simultaneous rise in popularity of paradoxical stories and experiences in the Hellenistic period was grounded not in believing, but in disbelieving – a phenomenon associated with antiquarian interests, the self-publicity of religious sanctuaries, or amazed credulity. People were increasingly drawn to ‘real’ gods, leading to long pilgrimages and extensive financial outlay (in the mysteries) in order to see them. I investigate this phenomenon by focusing upon fragments of the ‘mimetic’ or ‘tragic’ Greek historians that survive from this period.
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Tarrant, Harold. "Olympiodorus and Proclus on the Climax of the Alcibiades." International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 1, no. 1 (2007): 3–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187254707x194636.
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AbstractThis paper examines the late Neoplatonic evidence for the text at the crucial point of the Alcibiades I, 133c, finding that Olympiodorus' important evidence is not in the lexis, which strangely has nothing to say. Perhaps it was dangerous in Christian Alexandria to record one's views here too precisely. Rather, they are found primarily in the prologue and secondarily in the relevant theoria. Olympiodorus believes that he is quoting from the work or paraphrasing closely, but offers nothing that can be paralleled in either the manuscripts or the Eusebian (or Stobaean) versions. Since both the manuscript text and the Eusebian text fail to satisfy, the evidence deserves consideration. Even if he were not in possession of a text that was wholly correct, Olympiodorus does at least offer an overall interpretation of the passage which neatly unites the daemonic and erotic aspects of Socrates' activities, and offers a real reason for Alcibiades to return Socrates' love. He is encouraged to reflect upon the nature of the divine being (not just a daemo but a theos in this work) controlling Socrates, so that he may behold the likeness of his own, woefully obscured, inner self, and so acquire the self-knowledge necessary for true political success.The anonymous Prolegomena (unsurprisingly) are compatible with Olympiodorus, while Proclus' prologue again largely agrees with Olympiodorus' interpretation. For Proclus, Alcibiades must become an observer of Socrates knowledge and indeed of Socrates' whole life. 'For to desire to know the reason for Socrates' actions is to become the lover of the knowledge which is pre-established within him.' So the path towards a total understanding of his own inner intellective self lies via the contemplation of that being that is rooted within Socrates.I also examine earlier Platonist evidence for the text and find little that is not in harmony with late Neoplatonism.
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B. Decock, Paul. "Origen’s Christian Approach to the Song of Songs." Religion and Theology 17, no. 1-2 (2010): 13–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157430110x517898.
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AbstractThis essay attempts to understand and appreciate what Origen was aiming at in his commentary on the Song of Songs. Origen “imagined” the purpose of reading the Scriptures as the transformation of the reader into the “likeness of God”. He viewed the Song of Songs as the climax of all songs of Scripture and therefore, “learning to sing that song” expressed the highest stage of Christian growth. As the subject matter of the Song of Songs is love, it is clear that perfection in love is indeed the ultimate goal of human life. However, understanding love is difficult and many go astray, because, in fact, as God is love, understanding love and loving is as profound as God Self. It is through the Logos at work in the Scriptures as well as within us and in the whole of the created reality that we are empowered for loving and understanding love. Origen describes the action of the Logos with the image of a “saving wound caused by the arrow of the divine eros”. Origen’s perspective is not that of working towards a fusion of horizons between a human author in the past and a present-day reader, but of working towards an ascent from the level of the “letter” to the level of the “spirit”.
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Marcus Garvey Orji and Felicia Onyenemerem. "Assessing the Respect and Dignity for Human Life in the Nigerian Health Sector." Konfrontasi: Jurnal Kultural, Ekonomi dan Perubahan Sosial 7, no. 1 (March 3, 2020): 20–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.33258/konfrontasi2.v7i1.93.
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Human dignity is ‘an individual or group's sense of self-respect and self-worth, physical and psychological integrity and empowerment. The basis for the theme of Human dignity, is that humans were created in the image and likeness of God. Regardless of any factors or reasons we can think of, individuals have an inherent and immeasurable worth and dignity; each human life is considered sacred and must be respected. Thus, the health sector has the obligation of considering the ethical dimensions of the major determinants of human health, respect and dignity. The objective of this study is to examine the issues of respect and dignity for human life in the Nigerian health sector. The study is a survey research, and data was collected from both primary and secondary source, and analysed by simple percentages and tabulations. The result of the findings revealed that respect and dignity for human life in the Nigerian health sector is very necessary; promotion and protection of human rights and of health care are fundamentally linked; Nigerian health workers have not fared well in the area of respect for human dignity, and that Nigerian government policies and cultures have impeded the protection of rights and dignity of persons in the health sector. The study among others recommended the education and change of mentality through media of the Nigerian health workers on the need for respect and dignity of human life in the health care institutions, reformation of the health care sector, planning it in such a way that respect and dignity for human life will reflect in the centrality of the programme of reformation and activities.
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Marcus Garvey Orji and Felicia Onyenemerem. "Assessing the Respect and Dignity for Human Life in the Nigerian Health Sector." Konfrontasi: Jurnal Kultural, Ekonomi dan Perubahan Sosial 9, no. 1 (March 3, 2020): 20–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.33258/konfrontasi2.v9i1.93.
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Human dignity is ‘an individual or group's sense of self-respect and self-worth, physical and psychological integrity and empowerment. The basis for the theme of Human dignity, is that humans were created in the image and likeness of God. Regardless of any factors or reasons we can think of, individuals have an inherent and immeasurable worth and dignity; each human life is considered sacred and must be respected. Thus, the health sector has the obligation of considering the ethical dimensions of the major determinants of human health, respect and dignity. The objective of this study is to examine the issues of respect and dignity for human life in the Nigerian health sector. The study is a survey research, and data was collected from both primary and secondary source, and analysed by simple percentages and tabulations. The result of the findings revealed that respect and dignity for human life in the Nigerian health sector is very necessary; promotion and protection of human rights and of health care are fundamentally linked; Nigerian health workers have not fared well in the area of respect for human dignity, and that Nigerian government policies and cultures have impeded the protection of rights and dignity of persons in the health sector. The study among others recommended the education and change of mentality through media of the Nigerian health workers on the need for respect and dignity of human life in the health care institutions, reformation of the health care sector, planning it in such a way that respect and dignity for human life will reflect in the centrality of the programme of reformation and activities.
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Chistyakova, Olga V. "Philosophical Insights on the Human Being in Greek-Byzantine Patristics." Voprosy Filosofii, no. 8 (2021): 142–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.21146/0042-8744-2021-8-142-152.
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The article traces the formation of a new religious and philosophical tradition of consideration of the human being. It was formed in the texts of representatives of Eastern Patristics at the epoch of Trinity and Christology theological discussions in Byzantium from the 4th to 7th centuries. The author presents the early Church Fathers’ ideas of the period of Christian apologetics, who laid the foundation for early medieval Christian anthropology. The work analyzes the significant issues, the solution of which allowed Greek-Byzantine Church Fathers to shape the anthropological tradition of Eastern Christianity. In particular, the author notes the differences in the justification of the Eastern Church Fathers’ Old Testament point on the creation of man in the God’s image and likeness. The researcher stresses the diversity of concepts about the contradictory nature of the human associated with the confrontation of the soul (spirit) and body. In this context, the principle of antinomianism is deduced as the primary method of theorizing about the person in their relationship with God and the created world. Special attention is paid to the Patristics interpretation of the idea of deification, comprehended as the life goal of an individual, and, at the same time, as a process of realization of the highest purpose by unifying two contradictory worlds – Divine and earthly – into one harmonious Universe. Deification is derived as an opportunity to overcome man’s duality and as his righteous path guiding each individual to self-improvement, self-knowledge, and spiritual unity with the Creator. The article is based on the analysis of the sacred texts of Eastern Christianity, specifically by Irenaeus, Athanasius of Alexandria, Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, and Maximus the Confessor.
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Nekrasov, Dmitry Yurievich. "Fractal graphic as digital objectless art." Journal of Flm Arts and Film Studies 6, no. 1 (March 15, 2014): 68–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/vgik6168-76.
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This article analyses the phenomenon of digital computer graphics, based on mathematical calculations, and possibilities of using it in different modern art techniques. Digital fractal patterns are irregular, self-similar structures, which are based on natural objects' group of similar characteristics, such as: corals, starfishes, sea urchins, snowflakes, crowns of the trees. The principle of such image shaping is natural, so its worthwhile to trace down it's digital mathematic simulation. Contrary to digital graphic and painting, fractal graphic does not base on classic art traditions. The closest to the fractal graphics are objectless ornamental traditions, inheriting principles of infinite spatial creation of similar groups. The article includes the comparison of general ornamental rules and features of fractal images. Due to the fact that modern computer software allows to create the digital fractal graphics without special mathematical skills, an artist can combine traditional and digital painting and abstract fractal graphic to reach that level of balance and fortuity of an image, that abstract artist has tried to get, using traditional techniques. The fractal graphic is examined as a digital counterpart of traditional painting technique of monotyping in complex art work. Author underlines the likeness of many digital and material ways of creating images. Finally, the visual language of a piece of art still remains more important, than technological details of its production.
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Poškaitė, Loreta. "Authenticity/Genuineness/Truth (Zhen 真 ) in Chinese Traditional Art Theories and Aesthetics." Art History & Criticism 16, no. 1 (December 1, 2020): 145–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/mik-2020-0011.
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SummaryThe uniqueness of Chinese traditional art and aesthetics is often presented by the popular Chinese saying “art is manifestation of Dao”, which could mean manifestation of truth or authenticity, since Dao 道 in Classical Daoism was understood as authentic being and a source of authenticity. However, the meaning of authenticity/truth (zhen 真 ) in Chinese aesthetics and theories of art seems less discussed, and far more complicated, than the term Dao. This article argues that zhen is no less important for understanding the nature of artistic creativity and expression in Chinese arts and their theories in the historical perspective, and the issue of likeness in art in particular. It demonstrates how this term is related to the evaluation of the work of art, the artist’s expression and self-expression, and his/her relation to the “object” represented in art; in other words, with representation, imagination and morality, which is evident in such compounds as “drawing truthfulness” (xie zhen 写真), and “to create the truth” (chuang zhen 創真). The article deals with the conceptual and historical analysis of the term zhen, aiming to survey the differences and changes of its meaning in theories of painting, literature and “aesthetics of things” (antiquarianism), and to reveal the relations between its philosophical and aesthetic interpretations, especially evident in the Ming dynasty.
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Tammelin, Ann, Fia Klötz, Anna Hambræus, Elisabeth Ståhle, and Ulrika Ransjö. "Nasal and Hand Carriage ofStaphylococcus aureusin Staff at a Department for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery: Endogenous or Exogenous Source?" Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology 24, no. 9 (September 2003): 686–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/502277.
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AbstractObjective:To investigate the rates ofStaphylococcus aureuscarriage on the hands and in the noses of healthcare workers (HCWs) and the relatedness ofS. aureusisolates found in the two sites.Design:Point-prevalence study.Setting:Department for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at the University Hospital of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden.Subjects and Methods:Samples were obtained from 133 individuals, 18 men and 115 women, using imprints of each hand on blood agar and a swab from the nose.S. aureusisolates were identified by standard methods and typed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis.Results:S. aureuswas found on the hands of 16.7% of the men and 9.6% of the women, and in the noses of 33.3% of the men and 17.4% of the women. The risk ratio forS. aureuscarriage on the hands with nasal carriage was 7.4 (95% confidence interval, 2.7 to 20.2;P< .001). Among the 14 HCWs carryingS. aureuson their hands, strain likeness to the nasal isolate was documented for 7 (50%).Conclusions:Half of the HCWs acquiredS. aureuson the hands from patients or the environment and half did so by apparent self-inoculation from the nose. Regardless of the source of contamination, good compliance with hand hygiene is needed from all HCWs to protect patients from nosocomial infections. The moderate rate ofS. aureuscarriage on hands in this setting could be the result of the routine use of alcoholic hand antisepsis.
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Khan, Muhammad Altaf, Moustafa M. Nasralla, Muhammad Muneer Umar, Zeeshan Iqbal, Ghani Ur Rehman, Muhammad Shahzad Sarfraz, and Nikumani Choudhury. "A Survey on the Noncooperative Environment in Smart Nodes-Based Ad Hoc Networks: Motivations and Solutions." Security and Communication Networks 2021 (May 30, 2021): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/9921826.
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In ad hoc networks, the communication is usually made through multiple hops by establishing an environment of cooperation and coordination among self-operated nodes. Such nodes typically operate with a set of finite and scarce energy, processing, bandwidth, and storage resources. Due to the cooperative environment in such networks, nodes may consume additional resources by giving relaying services to other nodes. This aspect in such networks coined the situation of noncooperative behavior by some or all the nodes. Moreover, nodes sometimes do not cooperate with others due to their social likeness or their mobility. Noncooperative or selfish nodes can last for a longer time by preserving their resources for their own operations. However, such nodes can degrade the network's overall performance in terms of lower data gathering and information exchange rates, unbalanced work distribution, and higher end-to-end delays. This work surveys the main roots for motivating nodes to adapt selfish behavior and the solutions for handling such nodes. Different schemes are introduced to handle selfish nodes in wireless ad hoc networks. Various types of routing techniques have been introduced to target different types of ad hoc networks having support for keeping misbehaving or selfish nodes. The major solutions for such scenarios can be trust-, punishment-, and stimulation-based mechanisms. Some key protocols are simulated and analyzed for getting their performance metrics to compare their effectiveness.
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Gasparyan, Diana E. "Difficulties of I-Perspective in Projects of Phenomenology and Naturalism Integration." Epistemology & Philosophy of Science 56, no. 4 (2019): 99–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/eps201956470.
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The article explores the private nature of subjectivity in programs of integration the phenomenology with naturalism. It is considered if their tools are relevant for the phenomenological, rather than naturalistic way of subjectivity’s explaining. Justification of the key ideas is provided with the help of such concepts as “body image”, “body scheme”, (Sh. Gallagher), “ontological significance” (L. Baker), “experience”, “cognitive niches” (F. Varela), “transparent body” (T. Fuchs). Based on the traditional phenomenology of E. Husserl, it is shown that a set of approaches that integrate phenomenology and naturalism within the framework of “first-person philosophy” can be characterized as a phenomenology without a phenomenological subject. It is shown that the phenomenological nature of the self-perspective in integrative programs is more likely to be understood as the qualification and privacy of subjectivity, while the transcendental aspect of the unobservable and biased consciousness is practically not taken into account. The article concludes that the logic of some projects of integration of phenomenology and naturalism overlook this transcendental peculiarity of consciousness, its fundamentally unobserved character. The classical phenomenological approach emphasizes on the extra-natural, biased, and non-empirical nature of consciousness. The role and significance of the phenomenological approach is not limited to the idea of “what-is-likeness” and privacy of subjective states. Phenomenology, which preserves the idea of the subject, means a radical break with the ontology of things and, in general, with the ontology of something objective at all.
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Bassam, Nassif. "Personhood Revisited: Implications for Humanoids." Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Theologia Orthodoxa 65, no. 2 (December 30, 2020): 27–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/subbto.2020.2.02.
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"Technological innovations in Artificial Intelligence have reached a state where human-like robotics are endowed with rich personality and cognitive intelligence, able to engage emotionally and deeply with people. This progress in developing humanoids opens the way for a robot to obtain not just human, but superhuman attributes, such as omniscience and omnipotence, autonomy and self-awareness, freedom and interpersonality. On the other hand, this futurist situation could be considered as a possible threat to Christian anthropology, since it reaches a creation having the likeness of humanity that seem to retain a sense of personhood. This paper attempts to confront these challenges facing Christian theology today through first, revisiting Christian anthropology and the Patristic views on personhood, which look at a human being as an unfathomable mystery. Second, it presents the implications of this theology upon the arguments that consider humanoids as persons, showing that this postmodern issue is not just a crisis in anthropology, but also has its roots in a crisis in knowledge. Finally, this paper affirms that Christians are called to embrace science and technological progress. This can be done when rationalism is led by the intellect, the spiritual cognitive center of humankind. In doing so, humankind reaches epignosis, the correct or divine knowledge, the gift of true perception, or right discernment, which surpasses all rational human knowledge and algorithms, and directs all technological powers to God’s glory. Keywords: Orthodox Church, Patristics, Artificial Intelligence, Humanoids, Personhood, Christian Anthropology, Divine Knowledge"
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Thompson, Thomas L. "Imago dei. Et problem i de Fem Mosebøgers diskurs." Dansk Teologisk Tidsskrift 72, no. 2 (June 17, 2009): 81–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/dtt.v72i2.106457.
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Three times Genesis presents mankind as created in the image of God: the known is explained with the help of the unknown, as this narrative takes place in Feuerbach’s hall of mirrors. Do these texts speak of humanity created in God’s image or of the divine created in likeness of the human? Certainly the figure of Yahweh which dominates the narrative of the Pentateuch, reflects some of the most repulsive and objectionable of human traits. Does the narrative of the Pentateuch present us with its authors’ image of God or does it use ironic inversion to ultimately agree with Job that the God it narrates is false: one won from rumors, stories and tradition: a misunderstanding of the divine; that is, precisely the god as Israel of the past knew him. Taking its point of departure in my inaugural lecture, which dealt with the expression of Yahweh’s self-understanding, presented in the story of Moses at the burning bush, the first part of the lecture takes up the motif of images and likenesses of Yahweh in the stories of the golden calf, the feeding of Israel with manna and quail in the wilderness and the sending of the spies to the Valley of Eshkol. With the help of these narratives, I can then turn to the three-fold allegory of humanity as created in the image of God in Genesis 1-11 to compare this narrative figure of Yahweh with the concept of God in the Book of Job.
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Neff, Patrick, Berthold Langguth, Martin Schecklmann, Ronny Hannemann, and Winfried Schlee. "Comparing Three Established Methods for Tinnitus Pitch Matching With Respect to Reliability, Matching Duration, and Subjective Satisfaction." Trends in Hearing 23 (January 2019): 233121651988724. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2331216519887247.
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The pitch of tinnitus sound is a key characteristic that is of importance to research and sound therapies relying on exact tinnitus pitch matches. The identification of this tinnitus pitch is a challenging task as there is no objective measurement available. During the tinnitus pitch-matching procedure, the participant identifies an external sound that is most similar to the subjective perception of the tinnitus. Several methods have been developed to perform this pitch-matching procedure with tinnitus sufferers. In this study, we aimed to compare the method of adjustment, the two-alternative forced-choice (2AFC) method, and the likeness rating (LR) with respect to reliability, matching duration, and subjective satisfaction. Fifty-nine participants with chronic tinnitus were recruited and performed five consecutive runs of tinnitus matching. The participants were randomized to the three different pitch-matching methods. The intraclass correlation coefficients were .67 for method of adjustment, .63 for 2AFC, and .69 for LR, which can be interpreted as good reliability for all the three methods. However, the 2AFC method revealed significant larger within-subject variability than the other measures. Across the five runs and the three different methods, all participants learned to perform the pitch matching faster and with better self-rated accuracy. Comparing the three pitch-matching methods, LR is more time consuming and the participants were less satisfied with the 2AFC method. Overall, the three pitch-matching methods show good reliability. However, we identified differential aspects for improvement in all methods, which are discussed in this article.
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WURZMAN, RACHEL, DAVID YADEN, and JAMES GIORDANO. "Neuroscience Fiction as Eidolá: Social Reflection and Neuroethical Obligations in Depictions of Neuroscience in Film." Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 26, no. 2 (November 17, 2016): 292–312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0963180116000578.
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Abstract:Neuroscience and neurotechnology are increasingly being employed to assess and alter cognition, emotions, and behaviors, and the knowledge and implications of neuroscience have the potential to radically affect, if not redefine, notions of what constitutes humanity, the human condition, and the “self.” Such capability renders neuroscience a compelling theme that is becoming ubiquitous in literary and cinematic fiction. Such neuro-SciFi (or “NeuroS/F”) may be seen as eidolá: a created likeness that can either accurately—or superficially, in a limited way—represent that which it depicts. Such eidolá assume discursive properties implicitly, as emotionally salient references for responding to cultural events and technological objects reminiscent of fictional portrayal; and explicitly, through characters and plots that consider the influence of neurotechnological advances from various perspectives. We argue that in this way, neuroS/F eidolá serve as allegorical discourse on sociopolitical or cultural phenomena, have power to restructure technological constructs, and thereby alter the trajectory of technological development. This fosters neuroethical responsibility for monitoring neuroS/F eidolá and the sociocultural context from which—and into which—the ideas of eidolá are projected. We propose three approaches to this: evaluating reciprocal effects of imaginary depictions on real-world neurotechnological development; tracking changing sociocultural expectations of neuroscience and its uses; and analyzing the actual process of social interpretation of neuroscience to reveal shifts in heuristics, ideas, and attitudes. Neuroethicists are further obliged to engage with other discourse actors about neuroS/F interpretations to ensure that meanings assigned to neuroscientific advances are well communicated and more fully appreciated.
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Верланов, Д. С. "“The Golden Age of Patristics”: Hellenophonic Patristic Discourse in the 4th–6th Centuries." Grani 22, no. 6 (August 28, 2019): 22–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.15421/171960.
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In the early 4th century the Roman Empire suffered a number of important socio-political changes. TheEdict of Milan (313), having recognised in full the existence of the Church and its rights for worship, declaredreligions toleration, and put the end to the era of persecutions, but at the same time actualised and reinforced thestruggle of ideas between Christians and pagans. This controversy between Christians and pagans contributedimmensely to process of the becoming of Christian intellectual culture. In order to answer the most burningquestions and challenges of the time, the fathers of the Church deepened understanding and interpretation ofthe message of the Bible, created a large moral and ascetic literature, designed the dogmatic system. The mainpurpose of the present study is to specify the origins and main directions of patristic thought. In order to dothis I examine how fathers of the Church solve complex philosophical and theological issues, focusing on theepistemic aspect of the issue.According to the patristic tradition, the first step to acquire the true knowledge is to cleanse the self fromevery impurity of sin and passions. It is attained through keeping God’s commandments and maintaining asceticefforts. The sign of correct spiritual growth is a specific ability to penetrate into nature of things, which thefathers call “διάκρισις”. The fathers of the Church and Christian writers of the epoch recognise this ability asa religio-intuitive. One who receives this gift of divine grace becomes able of self-knowledge, distinguishingbetween good and evil, and understanding of the will of God. A Christian who possesses it becomes fully awareof personal spiritual condition, and as a result becomes capable to make the right choice of the way of salvation.There are two sources of the knowledge of God: natural (from the experience of being into the world) andsupernatural (divine revelation). The cognitive process therefore has two major aspects: sensual and speculative.The senses allow knowing God from his creation, as the mind or intellect enables man to contemplating ofincorporeal. The latter aspect enables one to self-knowledge or introspection and contemplation of the mind orsoul, which has been created in the image and likeness of God.The clarification of the Hellenophonic patristic discourse in 4th–6th centuries, on a large scale, allowsreconstructing another important phenomenon of this period, known as the “Golden Age” of Patristics.
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Nazir, Aftab, Rabia Arshad Usmani, Muhammad Sarfraz, Muhammad Zakria, Muhammad Umar Ghafoor, Marriam Nazir, and Shoaib Ahmad Malik. "Pattern of BMI and associated factors in residents of Hussainabad aged 15 years and above." Professional Medical Journal 27, no. 04 (April 10, 2020): 752–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.29309/tpmj/2020.27.04.3665.
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Objectives: To study the pattern of BMI and associated factors in residents of Hussainabad aged 15 years and above. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: Hussainabad, Faisalabad. Period: 15th April to 23th August 2017. Material & Methods: A sample of 410 was obtained. Participants were selected by convenience sampling. Data was collected by self-administered questionnaire. Results: Out of total 410 study participants, 250 (61%) were males and 160 (39%) were females. 258 (62.9%) participants were found having BMI in the range of overweight and obesity, 6 (1.4%) participants were underweight and the remaining 146 (36%) participants were having normal BMI range. Amongst 258 overweight/obese people, 83 (20.2%) people were overweight, 112 (27.3%) moderate obese, 30 (7.3%) severe obese and 33 (8.1%) very severe obese. Overall 175 (42.7%) people were suffering from obesity. 249 (60.7%) people were in habit of eating in between meals and 161 (39.3%) were not used to eating in between meals. 95 (23.1%) people eat four times a day and 55 (13.4%) people eat more than four times a day. Likeness and increased frequency of rice and meat [136 (33.2%) and (130 (31.7%)] was more than vegetables and pulses [(91 (22.2%) and (53 (12.9%)] respectively. 157 (38.3%) people were having nocturnal eating habits. 194 (47.3%) admitted of liking the sweets and sweet foods and 170 (41.5%) people admitted of eating more under stressful conditions. 130 (31.7%) participants don’t do any kind of physical activity. Conclusion: This study describes a high frequency of obesity among population of Hussainabad. Numerous health risk practices were identified including unhealthy dietary habits, eating sweet foods, increased meal frequency, snacking behavior and lack of physical activity.
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Ranchin, Andrey. "Joseph Brodsky’s Poem «San Pietro»: an Example of Analysis." Izvestia of Smolensk State University, no. 3 (51) (November 2, 2020): 5–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.35785/2072-9464-2020-51-3-5-22.
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The article considers the poem «San Pietro» (1977) by Joseph Brodsky. The paper analyzes the poem written by a free accentual verse and its metric features in their correlation with semantics: fuzziness of objects, indistinguishability of things in Venetian fog and the «fuzziness» in the metric syllabic-accentual basis of the text.
The author traces features of the poem composition, which combines freedom and
certain organizing principles. It is shown that the poem contains the key motifs for
the alienation of I from its own past and the surrounding world (a description of the
lyrical self as an anonymous guest, a hidden likeness of I to a can kicked by foot).
Fog is one of the alienation signs.
The poetics of the time in the poem «San Pietro» is characterized by the
identification of the triad «the past – the present – the future», the elements of which
correspond to the three-part structure of the text. For the lyrical hero, it is impossible
to return to his own Petersburg / Leningrad past or to join the historical past.
There is no genuine continuity between the past, the present and the future. Time (its
symbols are sea and water) in the poem is characterized by contradictory properties:
it seems to freeze, although it also moves forward (from two o'clock in the afternoon
to evening twilight) and (in the lyrical I imagination) rushes back to the
moment of the world creation. Water and images of sea inhabitants become signs of
this prehistoric state. One of the implications of «San Pietro» is the legend in the Book of Genesis about the creation of the world by God. The poem depicts the almost colorless, invisible and soundless world that is similar to the still formless land like in the Bible.
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Darenskiy, V. Yu. "SYMBOLISM OF THE DOUBLE AS A SOURCE OF PERSONALITY METAPHYSICS IN F.M. DOSTOEVSKY’s CREATIVITY." Bulletin of Udmurt University. Series History and Philology 30, no. 6 (December 11, 2020): 1061–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.35634/2412-9534-2020-30-6-1061-1071.
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The article analyzes the symbolism of the Double as a source of personality theology by F.M. Dostoevsky. The novel “The Double” is considered as a paradigmatic text in which the principles of construction of key images in the late novels of F.M. Dostoevsky were formed. The paper uses the ideas of A.A. Ukhtomsky and E.Ya. Golosovker, who proposed a philosophical interpretation of the phenomenon of “duality”. The novel “The Double” is considered as a source of personality theology of F.M. Dostoevsky, since it was the first time that the figurative model of the struggle between man’s personality and mask-face, which most directly reveals the duality of his nature as the created image of God, was developed. The hero’s search for his inner “place” (topos of authenticity) and inner support in the confrontation between the “mask” and then the Double as its ultimate expression is the main theme of the story. The duality of the “nature” of man, who is both the image and likeness of God, and carries the Original sin, is a traditional theological theme and the theme of Christian anthropology. However, by means of fiction it was not developed by anyone in such depth and completeness as F.M. Dostoevsky. “Duality” acts as a special mode of negative self-disclosure of the personality by means of its elimination of its external false identities. The struggle against the Double is the struggle of the true nature of man with his damage by Original sin. Corrupt nature is in the form of masks of Doubles, and genuine - he is fighting them, searching in his soul for the highest type. The masks are overcome only by their positive survival in the inner experience of man. The text of the novel “The Double” is at first interpreted as a “genre of dreams” and as a special “initiation” text aimed at the internal transformation of the reader’s personality.
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Gregersen, Niels Henrik. "Mennesket som Mikrokosmos. Grundtvigs digt om »Menneske-Livet«." Grundtvig-Studier 51, no. 1 (January 1, 2000): 75–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/grs.v51i1.16358.
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The Human Being as a Microcosm: Grundtvig's Great Poem on Human Life’By Niels Henrik GregersenAll of Grundtvig’s hymns are about human existence but only one hymn is actually entitled ‘Human Life’ (Sang- Værk IV, 173). This long poem from 1847, widely neglected in Grundtvig scholarship, describes the human potential for growth and transformation, and does so with a consistent use of five symbols of nature: Nature as star, rock, ocean, bird and flower. Through the lens of these five natural symbols (all of which have strong Biblical allusions) Grundtvig describes seven steps of human self-transformation in the image and likeness of God.The egotistic human heart is, first, likened to the coldness of the heavenly stars. In a second step, the superiority of humanity over nature is described in terms of the human capacity to discern life’s meaning (the eye is greater than the star) and to express it in terms of language (the word is even greater than the eye). In a third step, the human being is described as comprising nature in its fullness (the star is in the eye as well as behind the brow). In a fourth step, the human being is described in its painful lack of eternity, despite its fullness compared with other created beings. In a fifth step, a Christology of longing is presented, according to which Christ comprises what the human being does not comprise: time and eternity in one person. Thus, the high star of Bethlehem leads the human mind to the low crib of the poor child, in whom nature and spirit, time and eternity were united; by contrast, human existence is temporal but is longing for eternity. In a sixth step, humanity is transformed into the image and likeness of Jesus Christ. This process finally leads, in the seventh step, to a new song, a praising of God which takes up and yet renews Psalm 8 of the Old Testament.It is argued that Grundtvig understands the human being after the model of Christ. The notion of imago dei is portrayed in similitudine Christi. According to Col 1,15 f, Christ comprises both the heavens and earth, both the visible and the invisible realms of reality. Just as Jesus Christ was God and man in one person (»distinctively, yet not separated« as it was said in the Chalcedonian formula of 431), so does the human being comprise both the natural and spiritual realm of reality. Christ is the archetypical microcosm, humanity is the ectypical microcosm who, ideally at least, combines nature and spirit.On this interpretation, Grundtvig is seen as a Christian Platonist, who consistently uses the ‘principle of plenitude’ (Arthur Lovej oy), but combines it with a strong emphasis on the human being as a microcosm of both the physical and the spiritual realms of reality. This Platonic-Christian notion of humanity as ‘double microcosm’ explains why Grundtvig, in one and the same poem, can describe human existence as being nature in its fulness, and yet as superior to nature. It also explains his critical stance vis-a-vis the Romantic philosophy of nature. Also Grundtvig’s nephew, the philosopher Heinrich Steffens, used the idea of humanity as a microcosm in his famous Prolegomena to Philosophical Lectures from 1803. But unlike Steffens, Grundtvig refuses to speak of a gradual transformation from nature to the emergence of the spirit. In Grundtvig’s view, there is no slide from nature to spirit; rather, the spiritual realm is prior to the realm of physical nature. Against this background, Grundtvig could only understand the Romantic vision of humanity as the spirit of nature as a bisected version of the full Christian idea of the human being as a microcosm. On this important point, Grundtvig departed from his fellow-Romanticists.
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Tolstykh, Vladislav. "Cultural Foundations and Mythological Nature of Human Rights." Russian Law Journal 8, no. 2 (June 19, 2020): 104–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.17589/2309-8678-2020-8-2-104-119.
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The author claims that the concept of human rights arose on European soil as a result of certain cultural, political, and economic factors. Its primary base is formed by Christian ideas, secularized with the dissolution of feudalism and the spread of capitalism. In particular, this concept synthesized the Christian ideas of God’s likeness of man and the omnipresence of God: being god-like, man, like God, may be present in all things, though not in all at once. The main beneficiary was the bourgeoisie, who used personal rights to destroy feudal institutions, political rights to establish control over the state, and economic and social rights to mitigate class contradictions and distract their opponents. The religious origin of rights is the key to understanding their important features such as the absence of logical basis for human rights; helplessness of the law in front of acts that undermine the foundations of order and are marked as acts of self-realization; extraordinary diversity of rights, etc. There are several directions of human rights criticism (conservative, moderateliberal, Marxist and Christian). All of them assume that human rights neither adequately reflect human nature, nor take into account some of its aspects. Indeed, man is not only an individual seeking to choose, but also a member of a collective who needs a recognition (conservatism); a being alienated from labor and racial life (Marxism); a believer seeking to avoid sin (early Christianity) and obedient to divine will (Islam); a being who suffers from constant suffering and seeks to be saved from it (Buddhism); a victim of civilization, oppressed by the flow of information and the need for constant choice This inadequacy entails a destructive effect: the concept of rights creates a monochrome picture, on which, the human existence is reduced to act of will; gives rise to logical contradictions; destroys reality, monopolizing the axiological basis of cooperation; is used as a tool of submission and domination; creates an absolute justa causa; alienates from existence and forms the basis for other levels of the mythological structure. The history of human rights is not complete: It seems that today humanity is on the eve of fundamental transformations, whose content and final result are difficult to predict.