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Grounding : Necessary or Contingent ?

Recent interest in the nature of grounding is due in part to the idea that purely modal notions are too coarse-grained to capture what we have in mind when we say that one thing is grounded in another. Grounding not being purely modal in character, however, is compatible with it having modal consequences. Is grounding a necessary relation? In this article I argue that the answer is ‘yes’ in the...

Grounding the Human Body during Yoga Exercise with a Grounded Yoga Mat Reduces Blood Viscosity

Objective: Research continues to show that being connected to the earth can increase the potential of the body to scavenge free radicals. This study examined the effect of just one hour of grounding on blood viscosity while subjects participated in gentle yoga exercises designed to initiate minor inflammation. Design: In this double blind model, twenty-eight (28) subjects met at the Bowerman Sp...

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Collision and Grounding of Passenger Ships – Risk Assessment and Emergency Evacuations

This paper considers collision and grounding of passenger ships. Subsequent to a collision or grounding, there might be water ingress into the compartments and the risk of sinking exists. In such circumstances, timely and effective evacuation of all passengers and crew will be extremely important, and failure to evacuate in time may lead to catastrophic consequences. This paper presents probabi...

Ontology Grounding

An ontology is a structured semantic model, composed of concepts, relations and instances. Data is a more primitive but concrete assembly of instances described by their attributes. An example of topic ontology is Open Directory of Web documents used in Google organizing documents into topics and subtopics, such as “Science”, “Arts”, etc. However, many ontologies are originally manually develop...