Sense and Self-Referentiality in Living Beings

Characteristics of Living Beings

an investigation into elt teachers’ sense of self-efficacy in teaching reading comprehension and their personality types

as far as bandura’s (1977) conceptualization of the sense of self-efficacy is concerned, it is argued to be context- and even task-specific, compared to other concepts like self-esteem (brown, 2000); therefore, upon the previous research studies, related theories and definitions, and the ideas and views obtained from the interviews conducted with the scholars, the current research study aimed a...

Self-referentiality of Justified Knowledge

The language of justification logic makes it possible to define what it means for knowledge/belief described by an epistemic modality to be self-referential. Building on an earlier result that S4 and its justification counterpart LP describe knowledge that is self-referential, we show that the same is true for K4, D4, and T with their justification counterparts, whereas for K and D self-referen...

Potency of Melatonin in Living Beings

Living beings are surrounded by various changes exhibiting periodical rhythms in environment. The environmental changes are imprinted in organisms in various pattern. The phenomena are believed to match the external signal with organisms in order to increase their survival rate. The signals are categorized into circadian, seasonal, and annual cycles. Among the cycles, the circadian rhythm is re...

The Relations of Living Beings

I N the preceding essays* we have considered the relations of living beings to space (as revealed to us by Palreontology) and to timeas shown us by organic geography. The inter-relations of living creatures, as enemies, as rivals, and as involuntary helpers, constitute 1\ third department of Hexicologyt not less interesting than the two others already treated of. There is one very general inter...