How Does the Body Know How Old It Is? Introducing the Epigenetic Clock Hypothesis

2014 ◽  
pp. 49-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Mitteldorf
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Epigenetic Clock ◽  
Know How ◽  
Clock Hypothesis

The Transculturalized Diversity and Inclusion Model

2019 ◽  
pp. 349-368
Author(s):  
Charlotte L. V. Thoms ◽  
Sharon L. Burton
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks ◽  
Know How ◽  
Diversity And Inclusion ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Inclusion Model ◽  
Survey Results

While the transculturalized diversity and inclusion (TD&I) model is a contemporaneous strategy for leadership and learning, it is the latest of the existing disability study models. This chapter reviews the development of the TD&I model from the leadership perspective to study arguments, experiences, and to investigate how this information apprises the construction and exercise of transcultural consciousness, expertise, know-how, traditions, determinations, happenstances, objectives, agreement, and learning. This exploration focuses on the implementation of the model and survey results as this transculturalized model is reasoned the appropriate tool to expose how different backgrounds can be utilized in achievement to blend variability, variation, and diversity into unity. Beginning with the initial conceptual frameworks, and the results of the data, this research details the TD&I model and how to implement it in today's environment of activating change and transformation. This information adds to the body of knowledge regarding disability, strategy, diversity, and inclusion for academics, practitioners, and learners.

Yoga Communities and Eating Disorders: Creating Safe Space for Positive Embodiment

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Cook-Cottone ◽  
Laura Lee Douglass
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Eating Disorders ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
The Body ◽  
Safe Space ◽  
Know How ◽  
Therapeutic Landscape ◽  
Adequate Education ◽  
Body Positive

Abstract With adequate education and guidance, yoga communities, as part of the therapeutic landscape in the 21st century, can play a significant role promoting positive embodiment for those with, and at-risk for, eating disorders (EDs). To do this, yoga teachers need to know how to create a body-positive community and be able to recognize and respond to those at risk and struggling with EDs in their communities. In order to address yoga teaching methods associated with EDs and ED risk, broader conceptual approaches and specific practices associated with positive embodiment are offered. These include the broader conceptual approaches of: intentional inclusion and acceptance, experiential emphasis, supporting positive embodiment and inquiry. Studio pragmatics are also detailed as related to the body, breath, emotions, and community. Assessment, referral, and community engagement are also addressed.

Bodily Motions and Religious Feelings

1971 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-86
Author(s):  
Gareth B. Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Human Mind ◽  
The Body ◽  
Know How ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Better Than

For when men pray they do with the members of their bodies what befits suppliants—when they bend their knees and stretch out their hands, or even prostrate themselves, and whatever else they do visibly, although their invisible will and the intention of their heart is known to God. Nor does He need these signs for the human mind to be laid bare to Him. But in this way a man excites himself to pray more and to groan more humbly and more fervently. I do not know how it is that, although these motions of the body cannot come to be without a motion of the mind preceding them, when they have been made, visibly and externally, that invisible inner motion which caused them is itself strengthened. And in this manner the disposition of the heart which preceded them in order that they might be made, grows stronger because they are made. Of course if someone is constrained or even bound, so that he cannot do these things with his limbs, it does not follow that, when he is stricken with remorse, the inner man does not pray and prostrate himself before the eyes of God in his most secret chamber.(Augustine: De cura pro mortuis 5.7)One smiles and tells the expert chef how good the sauce béarnaise is, not so much to inform him about the sauce (he knows better than we do how good it is) as to assure him that we are enjoying it and that we appreciate his efforts. But when a man kneels in his pew and repeats a litany of thanksgiving it is not, it seems, that he means to be informing God of anything—not even of his thankfulness. For God, unlike the chef, has no need of information.

scholarly journals A STUDY ON THE PSYCHOMOTOR POTENTIAL OF PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS FROM BACAU SPORTS HIGH SCHOOL

GYMNASIUM ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol XVI (1 (Supplement)) ◽  
Author(s):  
Silviu Şalgău
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
The Body ◽  
Psychomotor Skills ◽  
School Students ◽  
Know How ◽  
Motor Abilities ◽  
Body Development ◽  
Primary School Student ◽  
Permanent Improvement

In the process of physical training of the 1st-4th grade pupils, the improvement of psychomotor skills depends on certain available bodily reserves based on a hereditary background, but also on the abilities acquired during the body development and it can be influenced by the instructional-educational process. The main way for developing psychomotor skills in the 1st to 4th grades is represented by the activity organized during lessons in order to form motor abilities and skills, but using specific methods and means to determine the desired process. This paper presents specific means for developing psychomotor skills during the physical education lesson and it deals with their efficiency to know how to act, according to the resulted gains or losses, in such a way as to adopt in future activities, different contents, strategies and forms to determine an increase of the efficiency of the teaching process as a permanent improvement of the physical available resources and the motor level of the age of a young primary school student.

scholarly journals Expert System in Accuracy to Identify Gingivitis in Humans Using the Certainty Factor Method

2020 ◽  
pp. 97-103
Author(s):  
Cyntia Lasmi Andesti ◽  
Sumijan Sumijan ◽  
Gunadi Widi Nurcahyo
Keyword(s):  
Connective Tissue ◽  
Medical Records ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Dental Health ◽  
The Body ◽  
Certainty Factor ◽  
Know How ◽  
Factor Method ◽  
Accuracy Level ◽  
Processing Steps

Gingivitis is a common inflammatory disease of the gums, which is a condition where bacteria develop in the mouth that causes damage to the connective tissue cells that are attached to the teeth. Lack of awareness in caring for teeth will have a negative impact not only on dental health but also on the health of the body. At present many people do not know how to accurately identify gingivitis in humans so that the condition is worsened and can even cause the paralysis of the existing connective tissue. This study aims to determine the level of accuracy in identifying gingivitis by using the Certainty Factor method precisely and accurately. The data processed in this study are fifty data sourced from expert interviews at Rahmatan Lil Alamin Clinic, Padang Indonesia. There are several types Symptoms refer to gingivitis in humans. The data is obtained from the results of medical records of patients who carry out examinations in the clinic. The data will be processed to identify the type of gingivitis based on the direction of the expert. The processing steps are solving rules, determining the weight value of each symptom and calculating the Certainty Factor value. The results of the processing were continued by calculating the level of accuracy. The results of the testing of this method were that 96% of them had gingivitis, the type most often suffered by marginal gingivitis patients. Based on the signs entered by the user. The results of this test have been able to specifically identify gingivitis, using the Certainty Factor method, the results of the accuracy level obtained are quite accurate and can be recommended to help dentists improve their accuracy in identifying gingivitis in humans.

scholarly journals Scientific Study: Enhancing Baby's Body Immunity Through the Javanese Tahnik Tradition

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 79-81
Author(s):  
Elfrida Nurutstsany ◽  
Hersy Fujiyanti
Keyword(s):  
Immune System ◽  
The Body ◽  
Natural Immunity ◽  
Literacy Studies ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Know How ◽  
The People ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Sweet Foods ◽  
Simple Molecules

Existence of Javanese culture is still inherent in modern times with beliefs that cannot be abandoned. Tradition nyetaki is an expression of gratitude to God about the birth of a child. Based on the view of Islam, it is called tahnik, which is to chew dates until smooth and then put into the baby's mouth and rub it into the palate so that there are some dates that are swallowed. In addi tion to dates, foods that are commonly used are sweet foods. Tahnik is done by people who are considered experts in religious science or have a high spiritual spirit. In the basics saliva and mouth store various kinds of bacteria. The phenomenon that occurs due to the tradition of tahnik is to strengthen the baby's immunity. The research method is descriptive explorative qualitative. Data and sources are obtained through observation to the community and literacy studies from various valid reference sources. This study examines the local wisdom that is trusted by the people of Java about Islamic immunization. Cultural know-how involves dental peristalsis, oral amylase enzymes, and bacteria in the mouth. Positive bacteria in the tahnik process will move to the baby's stomach so as to stimulate natural immunity. The bacteria contained in the mouth will make the natural immune system, so the body is resistant to these bacteria. The mouth contains an amylase enzyme that can break down glucose. Baby's glucose needs are less than 20 mg/100 mL - 30 mg/100 mL of blood so that they are susceptible to contracting the disease. So, dates or sweet foods that contain carbohydrates break down into simple molecules and speed up the digestive process. The spiritual value of the power of prayer and public trust strengthens the baby's immune system.

The Asclepiad. By Benjamin Ward Richardson, M.D., F.R.S. (Vol. 9., No. 35. 3rd Quarter, 1892).

1893 ◽  
Vol 39 (165) ◽  
pp. 265-268
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
British Association ◽  
Sulphur Compounds ◽  
Mental Depression ◽  
Chemical Substances ◽  
Know How ◽  
Animal Economy ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Sick Room ◽  
Field Of Inquiry

This Journal shows no indication of waning vigour. In fact the present number contains a large amount of interesting matter. One note on “Nervous and Mental Derangement from Organic Sulphur Compounds” has reference to the instances of derangement of mind induced by exposure to inhalation of sulphuretted hydrogen related by Dr. Andrew Wilson on the observation of Dr. Wiglesworth. Dr. Richardson recalls his own observations presented to the British Association in 1870. He introduced the study of the effects produced by chemical substances modified by the introduction or abstraction of simple elementary parts, and insisted that it was necessary to commence with a base, and to follow the modifications of its actions through the varied compounds formed upon it. He indicated the peculiar action of the substance known as mercaptan or sulphur alcohol. It was shown that a person brought under its action was subjected to strange variations of mind and body, viz., a desire to sleep, a strange, unhappy, dreamy sensation as from some actual or impending trouble, succeeded by an easy but extreme sense of muscular fatigue, so that the limbs felt too heavy to be lifted, and with depression and slowness of pulse for several hours. Sulphur compounds were also shown by him to be readily constructable in the animal economy, and a new field of inquiry was opened as to their presence in the air of a sick room and in the excretions. When we know how minute a proportion of sulphur alcohol will produce mental depression bordering on suicidal propensity, we may infer that the formation of sulphur compounds within the body would account for many examples of excessive temporary prostration, for the cause of which we have as yet no explanation.

Massage Techniques at Postpartum Spas for Beauty and Wellness Treatments Body in Mombykids Sambong Dukuh Village Jombang District Jombang Regency

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 094-100
Author(s):  
Henny Sulistyawati
Keyword(s):  
Relaxation Effect ◽  
The Body ◽  
Comfort Level ◽  
Health Treatment ◽  
Know How ◽  
Spa Treatment ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The One ◽  
Postpartum Mothers

Massage is one of the alternative spa beauty postpartum mothers who can maintain the balance of the body to always be healthy and fit. The purpose of this researcher, To describe the process of massage techniques in the body massage of the mother postpartum for the beauty and health of the body and Know how much the client responds to the application.  This type of research is a pseudo-experiment to find out and describe the maternal SPA massage process, using the One-shot case study.  The results of the Mean Massage Technique in postpartum SPA based on 4 aspects that have been observed are 1). The accuracy aspect of preparing 4.00 criteria is very good, 2). Aspects of massage movement technique 3.00 good criteria, 3). Aspects of Punctuality in massage procedure 3.50 criteria are very good, 4 aspects of cleanliness and neatness area 4.00 is very good.  The results of The Massage Technique Process at postpartum SPA for Beauty and Body Health Treatment based on 5 aspects observed, namely: 1). The aspect of stating strongly the amount of pressure given according to posture in the client is 60% category is quite good, 2). Aspect Stipulates comfort level that is felt 100% good category, 3). Aspect stipulates the level of cleanliness on the skin 80% good category, 4). Aspect Stipulates the effect of the results of this massage technique can reduce pain and a soreness 100% good category, 5). Aspect stipulates relaxation effect 100% good category. The response of Massage Technique Respondents at Postpartum SPA for beauty and body health treatments based on 4 aspects observed, 1). The aspect that expresses satisfaction after performing maternal SPA treatment postpartum is 100% good category, 2). Aspects that state the benefits of maternal spa massage techniques for beauty and body health are 100% good category, 3). The aspect that expressed interest in doing advanced SPA treatment postnatal is 75% good category, 4). Recommending in others especially mothers postpartum about maternal SPA treatment postpartum is 100% good category.

Influence of Temperature on Rate of Regeneration in the Time-graded Regeneration Field in Planarians

Development ◽  
1961 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-166
Author(s):  
Agnes Brøndsted ◽  
H. V. Brøndsted
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Influence Of Temperature ◽  
High Point ◽  
Know How ◽  
Influence Of Temperature On ◽  
Temperature Levels ◽  
Species Specific ◽  
Head Regeneration

There exists in planarians a time-graded regeneration field for head regeneration (Brøndsted, 1946, 1956; A. & H. V. Brøndsted, 1952). The characteristics of this field, expressed by rate of regeneration, are species-specific. The existence of this field ensures harmonious regeneration from cuts everywhere in the body, as a cut will always expose a ‘high point’ where regeneration of a head starts with greatest speed, thus taking the lead in organization and at the same time inhibiting head-forming tendencies elsewhere in the blastema (Brøndsted, 1956). The factors underlying these characteristics of the field are unknown; the problems involved are being attacked from several angles in our laboratory. For the sake of this work it is of some interest to know how the different rates of regeneration at various levels in the time-graded fields might be influenced by various temperature levels. Material and Methods The experiments were carried out on two species differing greatly in the characteristics of their time-graded regeneration fields.

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