OBJECTIVE To determine the validity of the Danish urban myth that it is possible to get drunk by submerging feet in alcohol. DESIGN Open labelled, self experimental study, with no control group. SETTING Office of a Danish hospital. PARTICIPANTS Three adults, median age 32 (range 31-35), free of chronic skin and liver disease and non-dependent on alcohol and psychoactive drugs. MAIN OUTC...

Whereas Phenomenology of Perception concludes with a puzzling turn to ‘‘heroism,’’ this article examines the short essay ‘‘Man, the Hero’’ as a source of insight into Merleau-Ponty’s thought in the early postwar period. In this essay, Merleau-Ponty presented a conception of heroism through which he expressed the attitude toward post-Hegelian philosophy of history that underwrote his efforts to ...

A Network Coordinate (NC) system is an efficient mechanism to predict Internet distance with scalable measurements. In this paper, we focus on the node churn problem – the continuous process of nodes arrival and departure – in distributed applications. Studies on Vivaldi, a representative distributed NC system, show that under node churn the prediction accuracy of the NC system will be seriousl...

OBJECTIVE This study evaluated the effects of sexual victimization history, rape myth acceptance, implicit attention, and recent learning on the cognitive processes underlying undergraduate women's explicit risk judgments. METHOD Participants were 194 undergraduate women between 18 and 24 years of age. The sample was ethnically diverse and composed primarily of freshman, heterosexual, and sin...

This article discusses the functions of myth in Achebe’s Arrow Gods using Euhemerism as a reality measuring stick. The considers form and nature through what it calls “definition perspectives”. Using this definition perspectives, paper myth-ritual perspective, structural approach perspective functional perspectives defining myth. Having established that is believe gods are men deified for their...

Treatment for fragile X syndrome and related autism spectrum disorders has long been thought to be effective only during a narrow window early in development. In this issue of Neuron, Michalon et al. (2012) dispel this myth.

There is a widespread claim in the criminological literature that the current period is characterized by a surge in punitiveness and that this ‘punitive turn’ is fuelled by a new populism. However, the key notions of ‘punitiveness’ and ‘populism’ remain largely undefined, with the result that much of the associated analysis is vague, while developments are often asserted rather than explained. ...

There are many ways to develop and market a practice, I am hearing more everyday about the "metal-free" practice. In fact, anymore it seems a practice is looked down upon if metal is used. What exactly is "metal-free," and why is it promoted as the best way to practice dentistry? Does it mean implants should be nonmetalüc? Is orthognathic surgery wrong when metal plates and screws are placed? I...

thing seriously wrong with the Western Area,” the artist, Tyler Mercier, told the Times. “The neighborhood may be contaminated.” In fact, the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which was the birthplace of the atomic bomb, had once dumped millions of gallons of radioactive and toxic waste in the surrounding desert, without providing any solid documentation about precisely what was dumped or where. ...

In this paper, based on empirical research from the German office supply industry principle obstacles to integrating SMEs into EDI networks are identified. Contrary to common belief, integrating SMEs is not so much a technological challenge. We show that due to the fact that many SMEs do not employ e.g. automated material management systems, there are not too many unexploited network gains to b...