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Concepts, Frames and Cascades in Semantics, Cognition and Ontology (Language, Cognition, and Mind #7)
by Thomas Gamerschlag Henk Zeevat Markus Schrenk Sebastian Löbner Tobias KalenscherThis open access book presents novel theoretical, empirical and experimental work exploring the nature of mental representations that support natural language production and understanding, and other manifestations of cognition. One fundamental question raised in the text is whether requisite knowledge structures can be adequately modeled by means of a uniform representational format, and if so, what exactly is its nature.Frames are a key topic covered which have had a strong impact on the exploration of knowledge representations in artificial intelligence, psychology and linguistics; cascades are a novel development in frame theory. Other key subject areas explored are: concepts and categorization, the experimental investigation of mental representation, as well as cognitive analysis in semantics. This book is of interest to students, researchers, and professionals working on cognition in the fields of linguistics, philosophy, and psychology.
Conceptions: Infertility and Procreative Technologies in India
by Aditya BharadwajInfertility and assisted reproductive technologies in India lie at the confluence of multiple cultural conceptions. These 'conceptions' are key to understanding the burgeoning spread of assisted reproductive technologies and the social implications of infertility and childlessness in India. This longitudinal study is situated in a number of diverse locales which, when taken together, unravel the complex nature of infertility and assisted conception in contemporary India.
The Concept of Mind: 60th Anniversary Edition
by Gilbert RyleFirst published in 1949, Gilbert Ryle’s The Concept of Mind is one of the classics of twentieth-century philosophy. Described by Ryle as a ‘sustained piece of analytical hatchet-work’ on Cartesian dualism, The Concept of Mind is a radical and controversial attempt to jettison once and for all what Ryle called ‘the ghost in the machine’: Descartes’ argument that mind and body are two separate entities. This sixtieth anniversary edition includes a substantial commentary by Julia Tanney and is essential reading for new readers interested not only in the history of analytic philosophy but in its power to challenge major currents in philosophy of mind and language today.
Concentric Space as a Life Principle Beyond Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Ricoeur: Inclusion of the Other
by Paul DownesConcentric Space as a Life Principle beyond Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Ricoeur invites a fresh vision of human experience and search for life meanings in terms of potential openings through relational space. Offering a radical spatial rereading of foundational ideas of influential thinkers Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Ricoeur, it argues that these ideas can be rethought for a more fundamental understanding of life, self and other. This book offers a radical reconceptualisation of space as an animating principle for life through common, although previously hidden, features across the thought of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Ricoeur. It offers a fresh spatial interpretation of key themes in these thinkers’ works, such as compassion, will to life, Dionysian rapture, will to power, selfovercoming, re-valuation of values, eternal recurrence, living metaphor and intersubjectivity. It proposes a spatial restructuring of experience from diametric spaces of exclusion towards concentric spaces of inclusion for an experiential restructuring towards unifying modes of experience. This spatial rereading of these major figures in philosophy directly challenges many previous understandings, to offer a distinctive spatial-phenomenological framework for examining a life principle. This book will appeal to academics, researchers and postgraduates engaged in the study of philosophy, wellbeing, education and human development. The book’s interdisciplinary scope ensures that it is also of interest for those in the fields of psychology, anthropology, psychoanalysis and culture studies.
Concentration
by Ernest WoodThis perennial best-seller by a distinguished educator assembles 36 mental and physical exercises for taming the natural drifting of the mind. Newly designed edition of a practical manual for success.
Concentration
by Ernest Wood"STILL WATERS RUN DEEP"Success is directly related to concentration of purpose, thought, and feeling. Concentration, a perennial bestseller, assembles comprehensive methods for building strength of character by taming the natural drifting of the mind. Concentration means that our life becomes polarized to a chosen purpose, animated by increased powers of thought, love, and will, inspired by a Higher Self with which we become reacquainted.
Conceiving with Love: A Whole-Body Approach to Creating Intimacy, Reigniting Passion, and Increasing Fertility
by Denise WiesnerSupportive, practical advice for couples who are trying to conceive.Denise Wiesner’s integrative East-meets-West approach, developed over twenty years of practice, has helped thousands of couples relax, reconnect, and conceive. The stress of trying to get pregnant can wreak havoc with a couple’s intimate relationship—right at a time when that connection is most important—and the frustration and shame couples may feel can have a harmful effect and reduce their chances of conceiving. Wiesner gives couples the tools they need to repair their sexual relationship, rebuild their self-confidence, and reclaim their intimacy and desire. She includes advice from leading experts in Western reproductive medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine; offers sensual practices from yoga, qigong, and Tantra; and answers questions couples have about sex, intimacy, and both naturally occurring and medically assisted fertility.
Conceiving Risk, Bearing Responsibility
by Elizabeth M. ArmstrongThe text examines the continuities and discontinuities in how American medicine has viewed the relationship between alcohol and reproduction over the past 150 years, and how medical knowledge has been powerfully influenced by social context, prevailing morality, and social norms, particularly those concerning gender.
Conceiving Normalcy
by Elizabeth C. BrittThrough the processes of normalization, "fertile" and "infertile" become cultural categories that frame our understanding of families, parenting, gender roles, and more
Conceiving Healthy Babies
by Dawn CombsHealthy babies don't just happen. The lifestyle of the prospective parents is a crucial factor in promoting fertility and ensuring a successful pregnancy. But the average North American diet is saturated with processed foods and environmental toxins are rampant--we must take responsibility for what we put into and onto our bodies to create optimum conditions for the childbearing year.Drawing on the author's own personal triumph over infertility, Conceiving Healthy Babies is a unique herbal guide geared to helping couples achieve balance in preconception, pregnancy, lactation, and beyond. Its individualized approach to fertility explains the importance of: Understanding, accepting, and celebrating our own bodies Basing our diets on organic, nutrient-dense foods that have been traditionally prepared Using whole plants in their original form for their medicinal benefitsPacked with detailed information on hundreds of different herbs with a focus on their roles in building healthy babies, this comprehensive manual is a roadmap to wellbeing. The reference guide is rounded out by complete information on herbal use before, during, and post-pregnancy, and special attention is paid to supporting nursing and lactation. Whether you are have experienced challenges in conceiving or just want to ensure that your pregnancy is as natural and uncomplicated as possible, Conceiving Healthy Babies is an indispensable guide.Dawn Combs is an ethnobotanist and herbalist who apprenticed with Rosemary Gladstar. After resolving her own infertility diagnosis through whole foods and natural herbal remedies, she chose to specialize in helping women rebalance their bodies for fertility.
Conceiving: Preventing and Treating Infertility
by Dr Pierre Miron Mathieu Provençal Denis Gingras Barbara SandilandsIn recent years, infertility has become a medical phenomenon that affects more and more adults of reproductive age. In western countries, between 10 and 15 percent of couples are infertile. These couples are victims of a silent human tragedy that can cause major suffering and significantly erode quality of life. This work presents a guide to reproductive difficulties and the medical approaches that can help prevent and treat infertility. Inside, you will find: The kinds and causes of infertility that affect men and women A thorough look at key treatments, including in-vitro fertilization Prenatal screening and other critical post-conception procedures Health advice for conception and pregnancy
Conceivability: What I Learned Exploring the Frontiers of Fertility
by Elizabeth KatkinPart memoir, part guide, this personal and deeply informative account of one woman’s gripping journey through the global fertility industry in search of the solution to her own “unexplained infertility” exposes eye-opening information about the medical, financial, legal, scientific, emotional and ethical issues at stake.Although conception may seem like a simple biological process, this is often hardly the case. While many would like to have children, the road toward conceiving and maintaining a pregnancy can be unexpectedly rocky and winding. Lawyer Elizabeth Katkin never imagined her quest for children would ultimately involve seven miscarriages, eight fresh IVF cycles, two frozen IVF attempts, five natural pregnancies, four IVF pregnancies, ten doctors, six countries, two potential surrogates, nine years, and roughly $200,000. Despite her three Ivy League degrees and wealth of resources, Katkin found she was woefully undereducated when it came to understanding and confronting her own difficulties having children. Shattered by her inability to get and stay pregnant, Katkin surprised even herself by her determination to keep trying. After being told by four doctors she should give up, but without an explanation as to what exactly was going wrong with her body, Katkin decided to look for answers herself. The global investigation that followed revealed that approaches to the fertility process taken in many foreign countries are vastly different than those in the US and UK. In Conceivability, Elizabeth Katkin, now a mother of two, shares her fertility journey. Part memoir, part practical guide—with a foreword by founder of New York Fertility Services Dr. Joel Batzofin—Conceivability sheds light on the often murky and baffling world of conception science, presenting a shocking exposé into the practical and emotional journey toward creating a happy family. Armed with a wealth of knowledge from her years-long fertility struggle, as well as stories from other women and couples, Katkin bravely offers a look inside one of the most difficult, painful, rewarding, and loving journeys a woman can take.
ConBody: The Revolutionary Bodyweight Prison Boot Camp—Born from an Extraordinary Story of Hope
by Coss Marte Brandon Sneed“When Coss Marte went to prison 10 years ago, he was faced with not one, but two big challenges: lose weight and discover a legitimate career upon release. Luckily for him, overcoming the first obstacle helped him find the answer to the other.”—NPRAs a teenager, Coss Marte was flying high on New York’s Lower East Side as a drug dealer, making money hand over fist. But after watching his life and those of his loved ones fall apart, he realized things had to change. That change occurred when he was sentenced to prison.Within the space of his own cell and without workout equipment, Coss took the initiative to improve his circumstances and created ConBody, a bodyweight-only approach to fitness. This plan helped him drop 70 pounds from his dangerously obese frame, reversing a negative health prognosis of surviving the next five years. Once he saw that his workout plan was not only effective, but accessible, he knew he’d found a pathway to health and ultimately to a new life—and designed a regimen to train his fellow inmates.When he left prison, he returned to the Lower East Side, but not to his criminal career. Instead he worked out in his old hangouts and gained a small following that turned into an acclaimed business, winning entrepreneurial awards and the support of Shark Tank’s Barbara Corcoran.Coss’s method works. These exercises are for anyone, anywhere. All you need is yourself and the space of a jail cell to get started. It’s perfect for busy lifestyles on the go and can be done in hotel rooms, small apartments, and in your backyard.With fun, engaging exercises, ConBody: The Revolutionary Bodyweight Boot Camp will help give you the extraordinary hope and resilience to improve your health and life.
The Conative Connection: Uncovering the Link Between Who You Are and How You Perform
by Kathy KolbeKolbe identifies four modes of action, which each individual has in varying amounts. You use each mode at least some of the time, but you probably use one or more primarily and avoid another. Are you predominantly a Fact Finder, careful to research a problem before responding? Or are you a Follow Thru, for whom systems are the answer? Perhaps you're a Quick Start, spontaneous and innovative in your solutions. Or an Implementor, relishing demonstration and tangible results. You don't have to change the way you are to improve your performance. Kolbe shows you how to predict what you and other people will and won't do.
Conamara Blues
by John O'DonohueTranslating the beauty and splendor of his native Conamara into a language exquisitely attuned to the wonder of the everyday, John O'Donohue takes us on a moving journey through real and imagined worlds. Divided into three parts -- Approachings, Encounters, and Distances -- Conamara Blues at once reawakens a sense of intimacy with the natural world and a feeling of wonder at the mystery of our relationship to this world. Whether exploring the silent, eternal memory of Conamara or focusing on the power of language and the vagaries of human need and passion, O'Donohue tenderly reveals the fragile vulnerability of love and friendship. The result is a musical, transcendent, and deeply moving series of poems that exemplifies O'Donohue at his finest. Written with penetrating insight and distilled transparence, Conamara Blues offers a singular and lasting imaginative vision of a landscape of hope and possibility -- powerfully exhibiting the mastery of a poet at the height of his lyric powers.
Con Pochi Carboidrati: Basso Contenuto Di Carboidrati E Dieta Ricca Di Proteine Per Perdere Peso
by Arthur HillI giorni in cui il conteggio delle calorie sembrava la via per una salute migliore sono finiti. Questo libro di cucina parla della scienza della dieta chetogenica, sottolineando come può aiutare a combattere molte malattie e come può tenervi pieni di energia. Le ricette di questo libro di cucina sono gustose, e vi aiuteranno a vivere correttamente lo stile di vita chetogenico. La dieta chetogenica è rivoluzionaria in quanto può aiutare a combattere il cancro, la sindrome metabolica, l'obesità, il colesterolo alto, le malattie coronariche, il morbo di Alzheimer, la demenza, l'ADHD, l'ansia e persino la depressione. La dieta keto introduce alcuni semplici ma potenti cambiamenti nella vostra dieta.
Con hormonas y a lo loco: Claves para cuidarte durante la menopausia y el climaterio
by Doctora Clotilde VázquezLa guía de referencia para ayudar a las mujeres en un período clave: la menopausia. ¿Es una exageración ocuparse de la menopausia? Si son tan importantes los estrógenos, ¿por qué nos abandonan a mitad de la vida? ¿La menopausia son solo los sofocos? ¿Son normales los cambios de humor? ¿La menopausia engorda? ¿Produce cáncer el tratamiento hormonal? ¿Son iguales todas las menopausias? La menopausia afecta al 100% de las mujeres. Sin embargo, el sufrimiento de muchas mujeres durante este periodo de la vida se mira a veces con incomprensión y desatención. A través de relatos humanos, interesantes, divertidos y emocionantes, la doctora Clotilde Vázquez, considerada la mejor endocrina de España, nos adentra en la complejidad del climaterio, analizando los componentes hormonales, psicológicos, sociales y de salud. Y lo hace con una aproximación tierna, una visión amplia, pero además desde el rigor científico más exigente.
The Comte de St. Germain
by Isabel Cooper-OakleyDURING the last quarter of every hundred years an attempt is made by those Masters, of whom I have spoken, to help on the spiritual progress of Humanity. Towards the close of each century you will invariably find that an outpouring or upheaval of spirituality--or call it mysticism if you prefer--has taken place. Some one or more persons have appeared in the world as their agents, and a greater or less amount of occult knowledge or teaching has been given out.
Computer Resources for People with Disabilities
by Alliance for Technology AccessA resource for people with disabilities who want to improve their lives through the use of technology.
Computer Models for Facial Beauty Analysis
by David Zhang Fangmei Chen Yong XuThis book covers the key advances in computerized facial beauty analysis, with an emphasis on data-driven research and the results of quantitative experiments. It takes a big step toward practical facial beauty analysis, proposes more reliable and stable facial features for beauty analysis and designs new models, methods, algorithms and schemes while implementing a facial beauty analysis and beautification system. This book also tests some previous putative rules and models for facial beauty analysis by using computationally efficient mathematical models and algorithms, especially large scale database-based and repeatable experiments. The first section of this book provides an overview of facial beauty analysis. The base of facial beauty analysis, i. e. , facial beauty features, is presented in part two. Part three describes hypotheses on facial beauty, while part four defines data-driven facial beauty analysis models. This book concludes with the authors explaining how to implement their new facial beauty analysis system. This book is designed for researchers, professionals and post graduate students working in the field of facial beauty analysis, computer vision, human-machine interface, pattern recognition and biometrics. Those involved in interdisciplinary fields with also find the contents useful. The ideas, means and conclusions for beauty analysis are valuable for researchers and the system design and implementation can be used as models for practitioners and engineers.
The Computer-based Patient Record (Revised Edition)
by Committee on Improving the Patient RecordMost industries have plunged into data automation, but health care organizations have lagged in moving patients' medical records from paper to computers. In its first edition, this book presented a blueprint for introducing the computer-based patient record (CPR). The revised edition adds new information to the original book. One section describes recent developments, including the creation of a computer-based patient record institute. An international chapter highlights what is new in this still-emerging technology. An expert committee explores the potential of machine-readable CPRs to improve diagnostic and care decisions, provide a database for policymaking, and much more, addressing these key questions: Who uses patient records? What technology is available and what further research is necessary to meet users' needs? What should government, medical organizations, and others do to make the transition to CPRs? The volume also explores such issues as privacy and confidentiality, costs, the need for training, legal barriers to CPRs, and other key topics.
Computational Intelligence in Healthcare: Applications, Challenges, and Management (Innovations in Intelligent Internet of Everything (IoE))
by Meenu Gupta Shakeel Ahmed Rakesh Kumar Chadi AltrjmanComputational intelligence (CI) refers to the ability of computers to accomplish tasks that are normally completed by intelligent beings such as humans and animals. Artificial intelligent systems offer great improvement in healthcare systems by providing more intelligent and convenient solutions and services assisted by machine learning, wireless communications, data analytics, cognitive computing, and mobile computing. Modern health treatments are faced with the challenge of acquiring, analysing, and applying the large amount of knowledge necessary to solve complex problems. AI techniques are being effectively used in the field of healthcare systems by extracting the useful information from the vast amounts of data by applying human expertise and CI methods, such as fuzzy models, artificial neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, and probabilistic methods which have recently emerged as promising tools for the development and application of intelligent systems in healthcare practice. This book starts with the fundamentals of computer intelligence and the techniques and procedures associated with them. Contained in the book are state-of-the-art CI methods and other allied techniques used in healthcare systems as well as advances in different CI methods that confront the problem of effective data analysis and storage faced by healthcare institutions. The objective of this book is to provide the latest research related to the healthcare sector to researchers and engineers with a platform encompassing state-of-the-art innovations, research and design, and the implementation of methodologies.
Computational Creativity Research: Towards Creative Machines (Atlantis Thinking Machines #7)
by Tarek R. Besold Marco Schorlemmer Alan SmaillComputational Creativity, Concept Invention, and General Intelligence in their own right all are flourishing research disciplines producing surprising and captivating results that continuously influence and change our view on where the limits of intelligent machines lie, each day pushing the boundaries a bit further. By 2014, all three fields also have left their marks on everyday life - machine-composed music has been performed in concert halls, automated theorem provers are accepted tools in enterprises' R&D departments, and cognitive architectures are being integrated in pilot assistance systems for next generation airplanes. Still, although the corresponding aims and goals are clearly similar (as are the common methods and approaches), the developments in each of these areas have happened mostly individually within the respective community and without closer relationships to the goings-on in the other two disciplines. In order to overcome this gap and to provide a common platform for interaction and exchange between the different directions, the International Workshops on "Computational Creativity, Concept Invention, and General Intelligence" (C3GI) have been started. At ECAI-2012 and IJCAI-2013, the first and second edition of C3GI each gathered researchers from all three fields, presenting recent developments and results from their research and in dialogue and joint debates bridging the disciplinary boundaries. The chapters contained in this book are based on expanded versions of accepted contributions to the workshops and additional selected contributions by renowned researchers in the relevant fields. Individually, they give an account of the state-of-the-art in their respective area, discussing both, theoretical approaches as well as implemented systems. When taken together and looked at from an integrative perspective, the book in its totality offers a starting point for a (re)integration of Computational Creativity, Concept Invention, and General Intelligence, making visible common lines of work and theoretical underpinnings, and pointing at chances and opportunities arising from the interplay of the three fields.
Compulsive Acts: A Psychiatrist's Tales of Ritual and Obsession
by Elias AboujaoudeIn this book, we meet a man who can't let anyone get within a certain distance of his nose, two kleptomaniacs from very different walks of life, an Internet addict who chooses virtual life over real life, a professor with a dangerous gambling habit, and others with equally debilitating compulsive conditions. Elias Aboujaoude tells stories inspired by memorable patients he has treated, taking us from initial contact through the stages of the doctor-patient relationship.
Comprensión de la Cetosis. Su Guía Definitiva para Vivir el Estilo Keto
by Gretchen Ramos Ileana Paula Lozada OrtegaAPRENDA CÓMO COMER SALUDABLE, PERDER PESO Y PERMANECER EN CETOSIS. Independientemente de las razones por las que esté siguiendo la dieta cetogénica, empezar nunca es tan fácil como podría pensar. La dieta cetogénica está emergiendo como una de las dietas más populares para la salud y pérdida de peso. Ninguna otra dieta tiene los mismos tremendos beneficios para asuntos de salud, desde el cáncer a la obesidad y de enfermedad de Alzheimer a la diabetes tipo 2 por no mencionar sus efectos positivos en el desempeño atlético. En Comprensión de la Cetosis, Gretchen Ramos ofrece una mirada comprensiva a todo lo que usted siempre quiso saber sobre las dietas cetogénicas. Su enfoque está basado en investigación científica, su testimonio personal sobre cómo perdió perso de las 220 libras a una talla delgada en sólo dos meses. No ha trabajado en el campo médico por veinte años, ha ayudado exitosamente a las personas a estar en cetosis. Las preocupaciones comunes, preguntas, tips prácticos y consejos para seguir la dieta Keto han sido plasmados en este libro. A continuación una vista previa del libro: Qué comer en la dieta cetogénica Formas de Determinar su Fórmula Personal de Keto Pasos Prácticos para empezar con la dieta cetogénica Qué tipo de carbohidratos son buenos o malos Investigación científica de la cetosis Comer proteínas: buenas o malas Historias exitosas de la dieta cetogénica Razones por las que no está perdiendo peso con la dieta cetogénica Beneficios de la dieta cetogénica ¡Mucho, mucho, más! Esta es su primera parada para el más probada, confiada y precisa información sobre la cetosis. Dele click al botón "Comprar" para añadir este libro a su estante.