This paper explores the meanings of ‘Body’ and ‘Spirit’ in relation to one of the most important personages in Hohodene cosmology, the spirit “Keeper of Sickness and Sorcery”, named Kuwai. [“Yurupary” in lingua geral] This Great Spirit is an extraordinarily complex synthesis of the Hohodene (and other Baniwa, northern Arawak-speaking peoples) worldview. His ‘Body’ was full of holes from which t...

This article explores the idea of 'tragic festival' advanced by Henri Lefebvre in his 1965 book La Proclamation de la Commune and related texts from 1960s 70s. It contextualises vision as a violent revolutionary festival terms explorations tragedy earlier studies Nietzsche Pascal, while problematising link between everyday life, well transition (and its failure). The reconstruction Lefebvre's d...

We review the trade-offs between speed, fluctuations, and thermodynamic cost involved with biological processes in nonequilibrium states discuss how optimal these are light of universal bound set by uncertainty relation (TUR). The values product Q TUR, which can be used as a measure precision enzymatic realized for given cost, suboptimal when substrate concentration is at Michaelis constant, so...

BACKGROUND Although the Netherlands currently has its own procedure for evaluating chemical compounds and setting occupational exposure limits (OELs), most of these limits were originally adopted in the 1970s from threshold limit values (TLVs) set by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH). However, beginning in the late 1980s, criticism about non-scientific consid...