This paper will attempt to sketch a historical outline of ideas relating to revelation by tracing the development of a concept or topos which has preoccupied Western thinkers since antiquity and which became crucial during the Romantic period — the concept of the Daemon, and the general mode or sensibility referred to as the “Daemonic.” In Classical thought, the term “Daemonic” is associated wi...

© 1999        .  -(p); - (e). Pure I come from the pure, Queen of those below the earth, and Eukles and Eubouleus and the other gods and daimons; For I boast that I am of your blessed race. I have paid the penalty on account of deeds not just; Either Fate mastered me or the Thunderer, striking with his lightning. Now I come, a suppliant...

Objectives: This paper presents an up-to-date overview of research performed in the Virtual Reality (VR) environment ranging from definitions, its presence in the various fields, and existing market players and their projects in the VR technology. Further an attempt is made to gain an insight on the psychological mechanism underlying experience in using VR device. Methods: Our literature survey...

Newborn intensive care, a relatively new medical specialty, has recently become a very controversial one. It involves extremely complicated and expensive technology applied to cases of often uncertain benefit and considerable emotional investment. Many difficult issues remain unresolved, including whether newborn intensive care is an appropriate allocation of increasingly limited medical resour...

Statistics anxiety describes the apprehension that occurs when an individual is exposed to statistics content or problems and instructional situations, or evaluative contexts that deal with statistics. As statistics-anxious individuals always experience anxiety when doing statistics, statistics anxiety describes an enduring, habitual type of anxiety (Onwuegbuzie and Wilson, 2003; Macher et al.,...

Although employee trust in leaders has garnered substantial empirical research, trust between coworkers has been virtually ignored. Extending the work of D. L. Ferrin, K. T. Dirks, and P. P. Shah (2006), the authors examined the role of group leaders, an influential third party in the workplace, on coworker trust formation. The correlates of the extent to which coworkers trust one another were ...

Much of adul t learn ing is gradual , almost impercept ib le. Our model for t h i s knowledge-based, incremental learning is to augment normal story comprehension processing w i th a f a i l u r e t rack ing mechanism. When a comprehension ru le f a i l s , the f a i l u r e and i t s cor rec t ion are stored in an exception episode attached to the f a i l i n g r u l e . The ru le is otherwise...