LEGENDARY PERFORMANCES folklore, Repertoire and Mapping

Folklore, Folklorism, and Synchronization: Preserved-Created Folklore in Israel

Mapping Behavioral Repertoire onto the Cortex

A traditional view of the motor cortex in the primate brain is that it contains a map of the body arranged across the cortical surface. This traditional topographic scheme, however, does not capture the actual pattern of overlaps, fractures, re-representations, and multiple areas separated by fuzzy borders. Here, we suggest that the organization of the motor cortex, premotor cortex, supplementa...

Legendary Heritage In High Performance

MRS BULLETIN • VOLUME 31 • MARCH 2006 167 From Mirror to Mist: Cracking the Secret of Fracture Instabilities When cracks in a material propagate, bonds between atoms are broken, generating two new surfaces. Experiments have shown that cracks moving at low speeds create atomically flat, mirror-like surfaces, whereas cracks moving at higher speeds create increasingly rough fracture surfaces. Dyna...

Folklore and Medicine

Your education heretofore has been focused on the horizon which opens for the first time to-day, to fit you to receive training as entered apprentices of the mystery and art of clinical medicine and surgery. From now on you will come into contact with the raw material of our craft, the sick and suffering who seek relief within the walls of this hospital. It will be your duty and inestimable pri...

Sleep paralysis and folklore

Sleep paralysis is a relatively new term to describe what for hundreds of years many believed to be a visitation by a malevolent creature which attacked its victims as they slept. The first clinical description of sleep paralysis was published in 1664 in a Dutch physician's case histories, where it was referred to as, 'Incubus or the Night-Mare [sic]'. In 1977, it was discovered more than 100 p...