Agentive reflexive clitics and transitive 'se' constructions in Spanish

Grant Armstrong

doi:10.7557/1.2.2.2526

Human perception of shape from touch

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ◽

10.1098/rstb.2011.0171 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 366 (1581) ◽

pp. 3106-3114 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

Astrid M. L. Kappers

Keyword(s):

Human Perception ◽

The Other ◽

Dominant Factor ◽

Stimulus Information ◽

After Effects ◽

First Order ◽

Other Hand ◽

After Effect ◽

The Difference

In this paper, I focus on the role of active touch in three aspects of shape perception and discrimination studies. First an overview is given of curvature discrimination experiments. The most prominent result is that first-order stimulus information (that is, the difference in attitude or slope over the stimulus) is the dominant factor determining the curvature threshold. Secondly, I compare touch under bimanual and two-finger performance with unimanual and one-finger performance. Consistently, bimanual or two-finger performance turned out to be worse. The most likely explanation for the former finding is that a loss of accuracy during intermanual comparisons is owing to interhemispheric relay. Thirdly, I address the presence of strong after-effects after just briefly touching a shape. These after-effects have been measured and studied in various conditions (such as, static, dynamic, transfer to other hand or finger). Combination of the results of these studies leads to the insight that there are possibly different classes of after-effect: a strong after-effect, caused by immediate contact with the stimulus, that does only partially transfer to the other hand, and one much less strong after-effect, caused by moving over the stimulus for a certain period, which shows a full transfer to other fingers.

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Foucault: Madness and Surveillance in Warsaw

Foucault Studies ◽

10.22439/fs.v0i25.5579 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 174-190

Author(s):

Piotr Sobolczyk

Keyword(s):

The Other ◽

Main Argument ◽

The West ◽

Biographical Data ◽

Other Hand ◽

Polish Experience ◽

History Of ◽

The Difference ◽

Communist Countries

The paper revises the biographical data about Michel Foucault’s stay in Poland in 1958-1959. The main inspiration comes from the recent very well documented literary reportage book by Remigiusz Ryziński, Foucault in Warsaw. Ryziński’s aim is to present the data and tell the story, not to analyse the data within the context of Foucault’s work. This paper fulfills this demand by giving additional hypotheses as to why Polish authorities expelled Foucault from Poland and what the relation was between communism and homosexuality. The Polish experience, the paper compels, might have been inspiring for many of Foucault’s ideas in his Madness and Civilization, Discipline and Punish, and The History of Sexuality. On the other hand the author points to the fact that Foucault recognized the difference between the role of the intellectual in the West and in communist countries but did not elaborate on it. In this paper the main argument deals with the idea of sexual paranoia as decisive, which is missing in Foucault's works, although it is found in e.g. Guy Hocquenghem.

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Μεταξύ Αττίλα και Βαϊανού. Το Βυζάντιο και οι νομαδικοί λαοί από το 453 έως το 558

BYZANTINA SYMMEIKTA ◽

10.12681/byzsym.1139 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 24 (1) ◽

pp. 67

Author(s):

Γεώργιος ΚΑΡΔΑΡΑΣ

Keyword(s):

Central Europe ◽

Geographical Area ◽

Cultural Influence ◽

The Other ◽

Font Size ◽

Other Hand ◽

Before And After ◽

Decorative Motifs

Between Attila and Bajan. Byzantium and the nomads from 453 to 558  The paper highlights the relations of Byzantium with the nomads in the period between the collapse of the Hunnic hegemony in Central Europe and the coming of the Avars to the northern frontiers of the Empire. Taking into account the written testimonies, as well as the archaeological finds, the geographical area of the nomadic settlements, the conflicts and treaties with Byzantium, the role of the nomads in the Byzantine-Persian relations, the nomad mercenaries in the Byzantine army and certain Byzantine finds, as jewellery, swords, pendant capsule or other decorative motifs are considered. These relations are distinguished in two periods, before and after 491. During the first one, the Empire was able to control the activity of the nomads offering them settlement permit on Byzantine soil, while for the second is noted, beside the strong conflicts, the cultural influence of Byzantium through Christianity and, on the other hand, the nomadic influences on the Byzantine army.

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(Re)conceptualizing Difference in the Context of the Acting Subject’s Identity

Nauki o Wychowaniu Studia Interdyscyplinarne ◽

10.18778/2450-4491.13.07 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 88-108

Author(s):

Anna Walczak

Keyword(s):

Jacques Derrida ◽

The Other ◽

Social Discourse ◽

Main Theme ◽

Other Hand ◽

The Subject ◽

The Difference ◽

The One

What is the source and the effect of the acting subject’s identity? This question refers to difference, but not in its usual conceptualization, synonymous with a border and the need to maintain or transcend it. By reconceptualizing difference, which I see as “re-creating” the meaning and linking it with “added” meanings, this article restores its original load (importance) in being an acting subject, mediated in otherness. For this purpose, the différance of Jacques Derrida is invoked and his statements about it combined with those of other philosophers, in whom I found what is related and/or complementary and extends not only Derrida's thought, but that which constitutes the main theme of this article. On the one hand, otherness is an impulse to the “work” of the difference, and on the other hand, it is its effect. What is the role of the “work” of the difference in creating the identity of the acting subject? In connection with the “shift” of the effect of its work – otherness, into the area of the identity of the acting subject, can this subject say about itself: this is still me? In this context, what is responsive ethics, which, I believe, should be included in the contemporary humanistic and social discourse about the subject?

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Foucault: Madness and Surveillance in Warsaw

Foucault Studies ◽

10.22439/fs.v25i2.5579 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 174

Author(s):

Piotr Sobolczyk

Keyword(s):

The Other ◽

Main Argument ◽

The West ◽

Biographical Data ◽

Other Hand ◽

Polish Experience ◽

History Of ◽

The Difference ◽

Communist Countries

The paper revises the biographical data about Michel Foucault’s stay in Poland in 1958-1959. The main inspiration comes from the recent very well documented literary reportage book by Remigiusz Ryziński, Foucault in Warsaw. Ryziński’s aim is to present the data and tell the story, not to analyse the data within the context of Foucault’s work. This paper fulfills this demand by giving additional hypotheses as to why Polish authorities expelled Foucault from Poland and what the relation was between communism and homosexuality. The Polish experience, the paper compels, might have been inspiring for many of Foucault’s ideas in his Madness and Civilization, Discipline and Punish, and The History of Sexuality. On the other hand the author points to the fact that Foucault recognized the difference between the role of the intellectual in the West and in communist countries but did not elaborate on it. In this paper the main argument deals with the idea of sexual paranoia as decisive, which is missing in Foucault's works, although it is found in e.g. Guy Hocquenghem.

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Mnéme and hénosis

Ars & Humanitas ◽

10.4312/ah.12.2.56-70 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 56-70

Author(s):

Sonja Weiss

Keyword(s):

Mystical Experience ◽

The State ◽

The Body ◽

The Other ◽

Other Hand ◽

The Difference ◽

The Moment ◽

Intelligible World

This paper reconsiders the role of memory in Plotinus' philosophy, in view of the mystical unity (hénosis) of the soul with intelligible truths, and a less desirable unification with its objects of memory during its earthly existence. As a rule, the mystical experience precludes memory, since the latter is related to time and binds a man to his individuality. Nevertheless, the capacity to remember remains an important part of the philosophical áskesis leading to this experience, since the memory is the only faculty of the soul that is able to travel through time, even though it is part of the process of discursive thinking and consequently is in a way imprisoned in time. Memory therefore turns out to be a double-edged power, which leaves us to question when we can regard it as an instrument of preserving what is inherent to us, and when, on the other hand, it is simply chaining us to the lower reality of the sensible world. The difference between the anagogical power of the Platonic recollection (anámnesis) and the memory as the state keeping us from unity with the intelligible world is important for identifying the moment when a man must let go of what he has been clinging to. This moment, however, is not set in time, but depends on the moral disposition of a man's soul leading a timeless existence outside, as well as inside, the body.

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Crowdsourcing: A Critical Discussion on Some Issues of a Challenging New Practice in the Digitization of Photographic Heritage

Recherches en Communication ◽

10.14428/rec.v42i42.48563 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 42 ◽

Author(s):

Jan Baetens

Keyword(s):

Belief Systems ◽

Critical Discussion ◽

The Other ◽

Photographic Material ◽

Other Hand ◽

Creative Tension ◽

The Difference ◽

The One

This article deals with a certain number of issues raised by the use of crowdsourcing in the management of photographic archives. Although crowdsourcing is (and should remain) a vital instrument in the description and analysis of photographic material, it does not really take into account certain problems such as the difference between information and knowledge, the reduction of knowledge to merely cognitive elements (at the expense of social, political, and ideological belief systems) and the creative tension between the unique artefact on the one hand and serialization on the other hand. Relying on the work by Yves Citton and his plea for the role of interpretation in humanist research, this article will offer a new way of "framing" the technique of crowdsourcing in a larger interpretive context.

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Mnéme and hénosis

Ars & Humanitas ◽

10.4312/ars.12.2.56-70 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 56-70

Author(s):

Sonja Weiss

Keyword(s):

Mystical Experience ◽

The State ◽

The Body ◽

The Other ◽

Other Hand ◽

The Difference ◽

The Moment ◽

Intelligible World

This paper reconsiders the role of memory in Plotinus' philosophy, in view of the mystical unity (hénosis) of the soul with intelligible truths, and a less desirable unification with its objects of memory during its earthly existence. As a rule, the mystical experience precludes memory, since the latter is related to time and binds a man to his individuality. Nevertheless, the capacity to remember remains an important part of the philosophical áskesis leading to this experience, since the memory is the only faculty of the soul that is able to travel through time, even though it is part of the process of discursive thinking and consequently is in a way imprisoned in time. Memory therefore turns out to be a double-edged power, which leaves us to question when we can regard it as an instrument of preserving what is inherent to us, and when, on the other hand, it is simply chaining us to the lower reality of the sensible world. The difference between the anagogical power of the Platonic recollection (anámnesis) and the memory as the state keeping us from unity with the intelligible world is important for identifying the moment when a man must let go of what he has been clinging to. This moment, however, is not set in time, but depends on the moral disposition of a man's soul leading a timeless existence outside, as well as inside, the body.

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BLOCKADE OF THE SURGE OF PROLACTIN AT PRO-OESTRUS BY ADMINISTRATION OF ANTI-OESTROGENIC SUBSTANCE, MER-25

Acta Endocrinologica ◽

10.1530/acta.0.0740769 ◽

1973 ◽

Vol 74 (4) ◽

pp. 769-774 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Akira Yokoyama ◽

Hiroshi Tomogane ◽

Katuaki Ôta

Keyword(s):

Strong Evidence ◽

The Other ◽

Other Hand

ABSTRACT A non-steroidal oestrogen antagonist, MER-25, was administered to cycling rats for elucidating the role of oestrogen in the surge of prolactin observed on the afternoon of pro-oestrus (POe). In animals injected with 20 mg of MER-25 intramuscularly on the afternoon (16.30 h) of the first day of dioestrus (D-1), the surge of prolactin was blocked while the level of prolactin on the afternoon of POe of these animals was significantly higher than that of the corresponding controls injected with oil. Ovulation was also blocked in these animals treated with the drug on the afternoon of D-l. On the other hand, treatment on the morning (10.30 h) of the 2nd day of dioestrus failed to prevent not only the surge of prolactin but also ovulation. These observations provide strong evidence for the view that oestrogen is responsible for the surge of prolactin on the afternoon of POe, and that the surge is accompanied by that of LH.

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Covid-19 – rumours and facts in media

International Journal of Research in Pharmaceutical Sciences ◽

10.26452/ijrps.v11ispl1.2344 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽

pp. 171-174

Author(s):

Tarare Toshida ◽

Chaple Jagruti

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Preventive Measures ◽

Vital Role ◽

The Other ◽

Sources Of Information ◽

Other Hand ◽

Corona Virus ◽

The People ◽

The World

The covid-19 resulted in broad range of spread throughout the world in which India has also became a prey of it and in this situation the means of media is extensively inϑluencing the mentality of the people. Media always played a role of loop between society and sources of information. In this epidemic also media is playing a vital role in shaping the reaction in ϑirst place for both good and ill by providing important facts regarding symptoms of Corona virus, preventive measures against the virus and also how to deal with any suspect of disease to overcome covid-19. On the other hand, there are endless people who spread endless rumours overs social media and are adversely affecting life of people but we always count on media because they provide us with valuable answers to our questions, facts and everything in need. Media always remains on top of the line when it comes to stop the out spread of rumours which are surely dangerous kind of information for society. So on our side we should react fairly and maturely to handle the situation to keep it in the favour of humanity and help government not only to ϑight this pandemic but also the info emic.

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