D r Martin Luther King popularized the notion of the Beloved Community, a term first coined in the early days of the twentieth century by philosopher-theologian Josiah Royce. Dr King envisioned the Beloved Community as a society based on justice, equal opportunity, and love of one’s fellow human beings. As explained by The King Center, the memorial institution founded by Coretta Scott King to f...

In event-related potential (ERPs) studies, emotional stimuli usually elicit an enhanced late positive potential (LPP), which is assumed to reflect motivated attention. However, whether a stimulus elicits emotional responses may depend on the individual's state, such as experiencing romantic love. It has been suggested that stimuli that are related to someone's beloved will elicit increased atte...

Dental Press J Orthod. 2017 Sept-Oct;22(5):18-21 18 How to cite: O’Brien K, Lopes KB, Miguel JAM, Sandler J, Kim KB. An interview with Kevin O’Brien. Dental Press J Orthod. 2017 Sept-Oct;22(5):18-21. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1590/2177-6709.22.5.018-021.int Submitted: June 05, 2017 Revised and accepted: July 22, 2017 I was delighted to receive the invitation to coordinate this interview with Kevi...

With his passing, the scientific community lost a giant whose monumental achievements were matched only by his dignity, humility, honesty, and generosity to collaborators and competitors alike. Scores of former trainees lost a beloved mentor, colleague, and friend, and his family lost a devoted husband, father, and grandfather. During a career that spanned six decades, two centuries , three con...

To my beloved wife, Yuijn iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First, I want to thank my wife Yujin for her enduring patience and loving support during my study. She has been always there for me from the very beginning to this very end. She has been at the core of my motivation even when I was doubting if could finish this program. I also have to mention my beloved children, Lynn and Olivia, who have been an e...

turned his ward into his office in his latest hours. He was always available for his patients whenever they need him. He earned one national award and two Hubei provincial awards of sciences and technologies for the efforts in his beloved IBD research. He was also the awards receiver of the Distinguished Young Scholar and the Top Hundred Excellent Doctors of Hubei, as well as innumerable other ...

Early in his study of radio in the USSR, Stephen Lovell quotes Rick Altman: ?new technologies are always born nameless? (p. 2). New technologies, that is to say, do not arrive with a self-evident purpose, and are understood initially relative to what already exists. In the case of radio, relevant prior technologies were the telegraph, the telephone and ? if it can be called a technology ? the p...

This article explores the materialist reading of culture developed by C.L.R. James. Central to James’s approach was his refusal to respect the implicit segregation between “high” and “low” or “intellectual” and “popular” forms of culture. In important respects, the article argues, it is precisely because James begins from an analysis of the practices and audiences of popular sport that his appr...