scholarly journals Advent of a Link between Ayurveda and Modern Health Science: The Proceedings of the First International Congress on Ayurveda, “Ayurveda: The Meaning of Life—Awareness, Environment, and Health” March 21-22, 2009, Milan, Italy

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Morandi ◽  
Carmen Tosto ◽  
Guido Sartori ◽  
Paolo Roberti di Sarsina

The First International Congress on Ayurveda was held in Milan, Italy in March 2009 and it has been the first scientific event of this kind in western world. This groundbreaking international congress was devoted to human being as the product of interactions between Awareness, Environment and Health, subjects that the West tends to consider separate and independent, but that are believed deeply connected in Ayurveda, whose interdependence defines “The Meaning of Life”. The Congress established a bridge between indian and western philosophy, scientific and biomedical thinking in order to expand knowledge and healthcare. Main attention and address of the invited speakers was on the concept of “relationships” that, connecting living beings with environment, shape Nature itself. This concept is central in Ayurveda but is also common to other western scientific disciplines such as quantum physics and epigenetics that, in the four Sessions of the Congress, were represented by eminent experts. The importance of this event was underlined by the attendance of more than 400 participants and by noteworthy institutional endorsements, that added a significative political dimension of high social impact due to the topical period for CAM acceptance and integration in Europe.

Author(s):  
Л.А. Нефедьев ◽  
Г.И. Гарнаева ◽  
Э.И. Низамова ◽  
Э.Д. Шигапова

В процессе подготовки будущих учителей физики основное внимание следует уделять не передаче суммы готовых знаний, а знакомству обучающихся с методами научного познания окружающего мира, постановке проблем, требующих от учащихся самостоятельной деятельности по их разрешению. В процессе обучения в первую очередь следует обратить внимание на то, что физика – наука экспериментальная, но при переходе к познанию микромира и мегамира снижается возможность реализации экспериментальной деятельности обучающихся. Авторами предлагается один из способов практического решения этой проблемы, заключающийся в организации и проведении лабораторных занятий с использованием разработанной виртуальной версии лабораторных работ по квантовой физике, способствующей развитию профессиональных компетенций будущего учителя физики. Также в статье рассматривается использование разработанного авторами методического комплекса «Цифровые лабораторные работы при изучении школьного курса физики», который представляет собой лабораторные работы с использованием реального оборудования с цифровыми датчиками, сигнал с которых обрабатывается на компьютере. В состав комплекса включены учебно-методические материалы для подготовки, выполнения и защиты лабораторных работ. Для достижения цели авторы использовали следующие методы исследования: теоретический анализ состояния проблемы на основе изучения методической, дидактической, психологической и специальной литературы, диссертационных работ по проблеме исследования; материалов конференций по использованию цифровых технологий в физическом образовании, нормативных документов, определяющих структуру и содержание профессиональной подготовки учителя физики, изучение и обобщение педагогического опыта; компьютерное моделирование физических процессов, наблюдение, беседа, анкетирование, интервьюирование, проведение педагогического эксперимента. In the process of training future physics teachers, the main attention should be paid not to transfer the amount of ready-made knowledge, but to familiarize students with the methods of scientific knowledge of the world around them, and to pose problems that require students to independently solve them. In the course of training, first of all, you should pay attention to the fact that physics is an experimental science, but when you move to the knowledge of the microcosm and mega world, the possibility of implementing students’ experimental activities decreases. The authors suggest one of the ways to solve this problem in practice, which is to organize and conduct laboratory classes using the developed virtual version of laboratory works on quantum physics, which contributes to the development of professional competencies of future physics teachers. The article also discusses the use of the methodological complex developed by the authors "Digital laboratory work in the study of school physics", which is a laboratory work using real equipment with digital sensors, the signal from which is processed on a computer. To achieve this goal, the authors used the following research methods: theoretical analysis of the state of the problem based on the study of methodological, didactic, psychological and special literature, dissertation works on the problem of research; materials of conferences on the use of digital technologies in physical education, normative documents that determine the structure and content of professional training of physics teachers, the study and generalization of pedagogical experience; computer modeling of physical processes, observation, conversation, questioning, interviewing, conducting a pedagogical experiment.


Author(s):  
A.S. Fogel ◽  

The paper is devoted to the study of the peculiarities of the reflection of the deaths of the first pagan representatives of the princely dynasty of Rurikovich in the minds of the druzhina (prince’s squad). The main attention is paid to the features of the position of the druzhina in the traditional society of Ancient Rus and its interaction with the princes. The author identifies the main aspects of the druzhina culture, reveals the symbolic and mythological meaning of life and especially the death of the prince in the perception of the druzhina. The paper covers the main options and complexes of actions of the druzhina in relation to the dead prince. The problem is considered on the basis of modern achievements of Russian humanities.


Author(s):  
Vedran Furtula

In this paper from the domain of theoretical physics, there have been stated and briefly described the basic principles and laws that apply to the new scientific discipline of physics, which we call the Physics of the Ideal Continuum. In addition to the definition of the ideal continuum, it also defines and describes other phenomena such as the origin of matter, the origin of space-time, the origin and role of black holes and other phenomena in the universe. Special attention has been focused on the energy balance in the universe, as well as on the universal physical constant and its role in the development of the mathematical and physical models of the universe. Through the presentation of the differences between the physics of the ideal continuum, the quantum physics and classical physics, an additional stride has been made in understanding the most important laws and their applicability in these scientific disciplines, as well as their inter-connectedness. Other terms that have been given a significant role in this paper include equilibrium and gravitationalsheds (gravitational divisions).


2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (22) ◽  
pp. 8825
Author(s):  
Akanksha Tyagi ◽  
Eric Banan-Mwine Daliri ◽  
Fred Kwami Ofosu ◽  
Su-Jung Yeon ◽  
Deog-Hwan Oh

World Health Organization data suggest that stress, depression, and anxiety have a noticeable prevalence and are becoming some of the most common causes of disability in the Western world. Stress-related disorders are considered to be a challenge for the healthcare system with their great economic and social impact. The knowledge on these conditions is not very clear among many people, as a high proportion of patients do not respond to the currently available medications for targeting the monoaminergic system. In addition, the use of clinical drugs is also associated with various side effects such as vomiting, dizziness, sedation, nausea, constipation, and many more, which prevents their effective use. Therefore, opioid peptides derived from food sources are becoming one of the safe and natural alternatives because of their production from natural sources such as animals and plant proteins. The requirement for screening and considering dietary proteins as a source of bioactive peptides is highlighted to understand their potential roles in stress-related disorders as a part of a diet or as a drug complementing therapeutic prescription. In this review, we discussed current knowledge on opioid endogenous and exogenous peptides concentrating on their production, purification, and related studies. To fully understand their potential in stress-related conditions, either as a drug or as a therapeutic part of a diet prescription, the need to screen more dietary proteins as a source of novel opioid peptides is emphasized.


Author(s):  
Emma Garnett ◽  
Judith Green ◽  
Zaid Chalabi ◽  
Paul Wilkinson

Societal impact is an increasingly important imperative of academic funding. However, there is little research to date documenting how impact is accomplished in practice. Drawing on insights from Actor–Network Theory, we explore the research–policy interface within an interdisciplinary research project on the relationships between air pollution and human health. Health policy impact was important to the researchers for moral as well as pragmatic reasons but it was a goal that was seen as potentially in tension with that of doing science. In fields such as air pollution and health, networks of policymakers and researchers are inevitably entangled, and we found that processes of engagement operated to delineate science from policy. Health was initially black-boxed and under-explicated, used as a signifier in itself for societal impact. By mobilising networks of policy actors, brought together in workshops to rank the importance of policy scenarios for the research team, the connections between air pollution and health were materialised and made actionable. This was achieved by framing existing data sets, emission technologies, policy expertise, pollutant species and human health in particular ways and, in doing so, excluding others. The process of linking air pollution and health research to achieve societal impact not only influenced how these phenomena were known but, critically, enabled and constrained potential policy responses. Tracing these research arrangements made the material discursive processes of ‘impact’ visible and analysable as objects of social science scholarship, and therefore generated a productive site for critically engaging with processes of environment and health science and policy.


2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 211-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Tamm

The introductory article proposes to offer a general frame for the special issue, discussing the emergence of semiotics of history as a new discipline or approach in the humanities. It presents an overview on the attempts of joining the history and semiotics in the Western world since the early 1980s, with a special focus on the United States, and examines the contribution of the Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics to the semiotic study of history, paying the main attention to the work of Juri Lotman and Boris Uspenskij. Finally, a survey of the articles that make up the special issue dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Boris Uspenskij is presented.


2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 415-434
Author(s):  
Bin Liu ◽  
Brian James Baer

Based on a comparative discourse analysis of the 2001 English translation of the pioneering “beauty writer” Wei Hui’s semi-autobiographical novel Shanghai Baby and the original Chinese work (1999), this paper aims to demonstrate how the reception of non-specialist readers in the form of online book reviews is influenced by the politics of reception in the Western world as well as the translational shifts in the text. Building the investigation upon the nineteenth-century sinologist translation model that packages Chinese culture as clichéd Chineseness in addition to the Western reception model that packages Chinese women as reckless lovers and escapees from communist despotism, the study argues that largely subject to the stereotypical expectations of Western readers about the Third World culture and women, the shifts reinforcing the prevalent stereotypes in the translation overshadow the author’s original intention of speaking for a small tribe of young people exploring their unorthodox existence in China. Lastly, the study concludes with the affirmation of Shanghai Baby’s social impact on both host and source culture in an attempt to relate its significance to a global context.


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