Dr Davies discusses faith healing, its clients and the healing process. He suggests that typical healers often have a total faith in themselves, their working methods and their systems of belief, sometimes born out of their own previous suffering. Patients do well if they have faith (which needs to be distinguished from credulity) in their healers and this faith should be nurtured and valued. S...

The complex of Villa Adriana at Tivoli is an outstanding archaeological site for its extension and articulation as well as for its state of conservation and originality. It is a sort of synthesis of the Roman genius for construction, providing an interesting review of all typological and construction techniques, from the villa to the theatre, the amphitheatre and the baths. Villa Adriana contin...

1. Miettinen TA, Railo M, Lepäntalo M, Gylling H. Plant sterols in serum and in atherosclerosis plaques of patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy. J Am Coll Cardiol 2005;45:1749–801. 2. Miettinen TA, Gylling H. Effect of statins on noncholesterol sterol levels: implications for use of plant stanols and sterols. Am J Cardiol 2005;96:40D–6D. 3. De Jongh S, Lilien MR, op’t Roodt J, Stroes ES, ...

The International Conference on the Voynich Manuscript, which took place 30 November and 1 December 2022, was first peer-reviewed conference that dedicated entirely to MS. only similar event ten years earlier at Villa Mondragone, Frascati, Italy, with invited presentations but without published proceedings (Schmeh, 2013). This paper summarises event, its preparation organisation, a summary of p...

While Plato wished to rise to a knowledge of the Supreme Idea through the realization of the lower ideas, and showed that these contain the essence of things, he pointed out that it is the object of science completely to disclose the attributes of all entities, the idea of good being the key-stone of all rational investigation. Notwithstanding the remoteness of the perfect State, advances in an...

this paper has been created in order to study the role of the meaning in creating a sense of place and in order to answer the questions about that, the meaning factor in each of its types- including the meanings that are in the mind of the human beings and the meanings that are in the place- can make which levels of meaning and also it is about that, how to achieve the various levels of sense o...