The auditor Thaumasius in the Vita Plotini

1993 ◽  
Vol 113 ◽  
pp. 157-160
Author(s):  
Richard Lim
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Philosophical Discourse ◽  
Lecture Room ◽  
Image Position

In his Vita Plotini, Porphyry recounts a colourful episode which, for a brief moment, brings to life the dynamics within the lecture room of Plotinus in Rome. The author explains how he was in the habit of posing questions to Plotinus frequently and persistently while his teacher was conducting his philosophical discourse before a mixed body of listeners. On one occasion, such an exchange between the two over the issue of the connexion between the soul and the body continued intermittently over a period of some three days, with the following outcome (Porph. V. Plot. xiii 12-15):

Readers in the Underworld: Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 3.912–1075

2004 ◽  
Vol 94 ◽  
pp. 27-46
Author(s):  
Tobias Reinhardt
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
De Rerum Natura ◽  
Image Position

Readers have always acknowledged the comparatively clear macrostructure of De rerum natura 3. It begins with a prooemium in which is described the terrifying impact which the fear of death has on human lives, as well as the fact that Epicurus has provided a cure against this fear, namely his physical doctrines (1–93). Particular attention is paid to fears of an afterlife in which we have to suffer pain and grief in the underworld; cf., for instance, the programmatic lines 3.37–40 (translation by Ferguson Smith, which will be used throughout):This prooemium is followed by a long passage (94–829) in which Lucretius explains the basics of Epicurean psychology and tries to show that the soul is (like the body) material and hence mortal; this last point is driven home with particular force in II. 417–829 where Lucretius lists twenty-five proofs for the mortality of the soul.

scholarly journals VI.—The Body-Temperature of Fishes and other Marine Animals.

1908 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 66-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sutherland Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Body Temperature ◽  
Temperature Difference ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
The Body ◽  
Shore Crab ◽  
First Year ◽  
Marine Animals ◽  
Mean Temperature ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Image Position

SUMMARYThe body-temperature of the following fishes, crustaceans, and echinoderms has been examined and compared with the temperature of the water in which they live:—Cod-fish (Gadus morrhua), ling (Molva vulgaris), torsk (Brosmius brosme), coal-fish or saithe (Gadus virens), haddock (Gadus œgelfinus), flounder (Pleuronectes flesus), smelt (Osmerus eperlanus), dog-fish (Scyllium catulus), shore crab (Carcinus mœnas), edible crab (Cancer pagurus), lobster (Homarus vulgaris), sea-urchin (Echinus esculentus), and starfish (Asterias rubens). The minimum, maximum, and mean temperature difference for each species are given in the following table:—The excess of temperature is most evident in the larger specimens. This is well shown in the case of the coal-fish, where in the adult it was 0°·7 C., and in the great majority (11 out of 12) of the young of the first year, 0°·0 C. The body-weight and the conditions under which the fish are captured probably form the most important factors in determining the temperature difference.In 14 codfish, where the rectal, blood, and muscle temperatures were recorded in the same individual, it was found to be highest in the muscle and lowest in the rectum, the mean temperature difference being 0°·46 C. for the muscle, 0°·41 C for the blood, and 0°·36 C. for the rectum.

scholarly journals The Chaetotaxy of the Pupa of Stegomyia fasciata

1920 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. W. S. Macfie
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Posterior Angle ◽  
Image Position ◽  
The Right ◽  
Two Sides

The pupa is bilaterally symmetrical, that is, setae occur in similar situations on each side of the body, so that it will suffice to describe the arrangement on one side only. The setae on the two sides of the same pupa, however, often vary as regards their sub-divisions, and similar variations occur between different individuals; as an example, in Table I are shown some of the variations that were found in ten pupae taken at random. An examination of a larger number would have revealed a wider range. As a rule, a seta which is sometimes single, sometimes divided, is longer when single. For example, in one pupa the seta at the posterior angle ofthe seventh segment was single on the right side, double on the left; the former measuring 266μ, and the latter only 159μ in length. This fact is not specifically mentioned in the descriptions which follow, but should be understood.

Proportionality of organ development in osteodystrophic dwarf beef cattle

1960 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. S. E. Hafez ◽  
E. H. Rupnow
Keyword(s):  
Abdominal Cavity ◽  
Live Weight ◽  
The Body ◽  
Muscle Area ◽  
Eye Muscle ◽  
Pituitary Glands ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Image Position ◽  
And Control ◽  
Dwarf Males

Sixteen osteodystrophic dwarf cattle and ten controls of comparable age were slaughtered. The components of the body and eviscerated carcass were weighed and measured. At birth the dwarfs were thick and blocky. At the time of slaughter a bulging forehead was common but not always extreme and not always present. The symptoms of dwarfism became increasingly pronounced with age, due to retarded growth. The dwarfs had shorter thoracic cavity, abdominal cavity, body, loin, hind leg, arm bone and forearm bone than the controls. No explanation can be given for the difference. However, the dwarfs were hydrocephalic and had significantly lighter adrenal and pituitary glands than the control animals. The dwarf animals had more blood, heavier feet, less abdominal fat, smaller loin ‘eye muscle’ area at the 12th rib and a less deep loin ‘eye muscle’. The dwarf females had a lighter rumen (with and without contents) and large intestines (without content) as a percentage of live weight than the controls and dwarf males. There was no difference in palatability of the meat or percentage of wholesale cuts from the dwarf and control animals except for percentage of plate. The following three ratios were disproportionate in the dwarfs as compared with the controls:

scholarly journals On the Probability of Collision with Earth, and Orbital Life-Time of Bodies of Asteroidal and Cometary Origin

1980 ◽  
Vol 90 ◽  
pp. 199-204
Author(s):  
E.N. Kramer ◽  
V.I. Musiy ◽  
E.A. Timchenko-Ostroverkhova ◽  
I.S. Shestaka
Keyword(s):  
Average Distance ◽  
Life Time ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Probability Of Collision ◽  
Image Position ◽  
Gravitational Capture ◽  
Cometary Origin

The radius for gravitational capture of meteoroids by the Earth is where R is the Earth's radius, h is the height where marked deceleration of meteor bodies begins, α0 is the average distance of the Earth from the Sun, v∞ and vg are preatmospheric and geocentric (undisturbed) velocities of the body.

A Caeretan Hydria in Dunedin

1955 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
J. K. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Good Deal ◽  
The Body ◽  
A Chain ◽  
Image Position

The vase here described was recently presented to the Otago Museum in commemoration of the distinguished services of Dr. H. D. Skinner, for many years Director of the Museum. It was formerly on the Rome market. It is restored from fragments, and missing pieces of the neck, mouth, and shoulder have been replaced by plaster. The joints and plaster restorations have been carefully painted over, and there has been a good deal of repainting where the glaze was worn. On the mouth, neck, and shoulder the restorations, though extensive, merely fill gaps in a well-defined pattern, and can therefore be passed over without a detailed description. The repainting of the figures on the body of the vase will be described at greater length below. The clay is a fine, clear red, rather lighter than the usual colour of Attic. The principal dimensions of the vase are as follows (measurements in metres):The body is ovoid, with high, flat shoulders. It is separated from the wide flaring foot by a low, raised ridge. A similar ridge separates the shoulder from the neck, which is cylindrical with slightly concave sides. The lip flares widely. The side handles are small and slope slightly upward; they are attached just above the widest part of the vase and below the sharpest curve of the shoulder. The vertical handle is divided by three deep, vertical grooves. The inside of the mouth and the upper surface of the foot are ornamented with rounded tongues of black glaze. These were painted alternately red and white, but the paint, which was applied on top of the black glaze, is now much worn. On the lower part of the body are short black rays; above these is a rather wider zone with a chain of five-petalled lotuses linked to five-leaved palmettes.

scholarly journals Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-38
Author(s):  
Jillian C. Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
The Body ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Philosophical Discourse ◽  
Specific Mode ◽  
The World ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Privileged Site

This introductory chapter outlines the aims of Resonant Recoveries as well as the book’s theoretical and methodological apparatuses. In introducing one of the central arguments of this book—that music came to operate as a corporeal technology of consolation in interwar France—the introduction provides an overview of how late nineteenth- through mid-twentieth-century French artistic, psychological, sociological, and philosophical discourse framed the body as a privileged site for the production and development of knowledge about oneself and the world. In so doing, this introduction provides the socio-historical background for the historical and musical analysis that follows in subsequent chapters while also advocating a specific mode of interdisciplinary research that investigates how music has historically been conceived as a therapeutic, corporeal medium.

scholarly journals Cluster size distribution of cells disseminating from a primary tumor

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (11) ◽  
pp. e1009011
Author(s):  
Mrinmoy Mukherjee ◽  
Herbert Levine
Keyword(s):  
Size Distribution ◽  
Primary Tumor ◽  
Cluster Size ◽  
Single Cells ◽  
Cluster Size Distribution ◽  
The Body ◽  
Secondary Tumors ◽  
Motile Cells ◽  
Cell Shapes ◽  
Image Position

The first stage of the metastatic cascade often involves motile cells emerging from a primary tumor either as single cells or as clusters. These cells enter the circulation, transit to other parts of the body and finally are responsible for growth of secondary tumors in distant organs. The mode of dissemination is believed to depend on the EMT nature (epithelial, hybrid or mesenchymal) of the cells. Here, we calculate the cluster size distribution of these migrating cells, using a mechanistic computational model, in presence of different degree of EMT-ness of the cells; EMT is treated as given rise to changes in their active motile forces (μ) and cell-medium surface tension (Γ). We find that, for (μ > μmin, Γ > 1), when the cells are hybrid in nature, the mean cluster size, N ¯ ∼ Γ 2 . 0 / μ 2 . 8, where μmin increases with increase in Γ. For Γ ≤ 0, N ¯ = 1, the cells behave as completely mesenchymal. In presence of spectrum of hybrid states with different degree of EMT-ness (motility) in primary tumor, the cells which are relatively more mesenchymal (higher μ) in nature, form larger clusters, whereas the smaller clusters are relatively more epithelial (lower μ). Moreover, the heterogeneity in μ is comparatively higher for smaller clusters with respect to that for larger clusters. We also observe that more extended cell shapes promote the formation of smaller clusters. Overall, this study establishes a framework which connects the nature and size of migrating clusters disseminating from a primary tumor with the phenotypic composition of the tumor, and can lead to the better understanding of metastasis.

Decreased self-face recognition: A new evidence of body image disturbances in anorexia nervosa

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (S2) ◽  
pp. 24-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Hirot ◽  
D. Guardia ◽  
M. Lesage ◽  
P. Thomas ◽  
O. Cottencin
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Body Image ◽  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Face Recognition ◽  
Massive Weight Loss ◽  
The Body ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Body Image Disturbances ◽  
Image Position ◽  
Body Concerns

ObjectiveBody image disturbances are core symptoms of Anorexia Nervosa (AN). This study investigated self-face recognition in cases of AN, and the influence of others factors associated with AN, such as massive weight loss.MethodFifteen anorexic female patients and 15 matched Healthy Controls (HC) performed a self-face recognition task. Participants viewed digital morphs between their own face and a gender-matched, unfamiliar other face presented in a random sequence (Fig. 1). For each stimulus, subjects were asked if they recognized their own face, and respond by selectively pressing a button on a computer. Participants’ self-face recognition failures, cognitive flexibility, body concerns and eating habits were assessed, respectively, with the Self-Face Recognition Questionnaire (SFRQ), the Trail Marking Task (TMT), the Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ) and the Eating Disorder Inventory-2 (EDI-2).Fig. 1Examples of stimulus. For each subject, a photograph of an unfamiliar face was digitally morphed into a photograph of the subject's face in 10% increments.resultsAnorexic patients showed a significantly greater difficulty than healthy control in identifying their own face (P = 0.028, Fig. 2). No significant difference was observed between the two groups for TMT (all P > 0.1). However, analysis did not reveal significant correlations between behavioral data and the EDI-2 or BSQ (all P > 0.1). A correlation analysis revealed a significant, negative correlation with BMI (P < 0.001) and the SFRQ “self-face recognition” subscale (P = 0.015). Fig. 2Self response rates per stimulus ranked in increasing order of familiarity (other to self) in both groups.DiscussionWe observed a decrease in self-face recognition, correlated with BMI, suggesting this disturbance could be linked to massive weight loss. It thus supports the theory of a lack of ability to update body image by the central nervous system, underlying self-images distortion in AN patients.

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