Harnessing healing inside the body?

Inside the Wrong Body

Biofield energy healing from the inside.

OBJECTIVES Biofield energy healing involves controversial concepts, and although numerous controlled trials have evaluated the effects, little attention has been paid to the phenomenon from the perspective of the therapists themselves. DESIGN Qualitative research. SETTINGS/LOCATION Large Midwest metropolitan area. Interviews were generally conducted in the therapists' place of business. S...

XSD: Accelerating MapReduce by Harnessing the GPU inside an SSD

Considerable research has been conducted recently on near-data processing techniques as real-world tasks increasingly involve large-scale and high-dimensional data sets. The advent of solid-state drives (SSDs) has spurred further research because of their processing capability and high internal bandwidth. However, the data processing capability of conventional SSD systems have not been impressi...

Placebo research: the evidence base for harnessing self-healing capacities.

Placebo effects are often considered irrelevant at best and a nuisance at worst for determining what is valuable in medicine. In this paper, we argue that research that involves placebo provides critical information for how the mind, body, and culture heal. Following a newly proposed definition of placebo as a therapeutic meaning response, empirical evidence is reviewed that emphasizes the impo...

Inside nature's smallest black body

Sonoluminescence is the intriguing phenomenon of strong light flashes from tiny bubbles in a liquid [1]. These bubbles are driven by an ultrasonic wave and need to be filled with noble gas atoms. The spectrum of the emitted light corresponds to very high temperatures [2] and hints the presence of an hot opaque plasma core [3]. Although sonoluminescence has been studied extensively, the origin o...