In our highly complex and ever changing world it is reassuring to know that certain physical quantities can be measured and predicted with very high precision. Precision measurements have always appealed to me as one of the most beautiful aspects of physics. With better measuring tools, one can look where no one has looked before. More than once, seemingly minute differences between measurement...

In every person's life, the time comes to take stock. The process is almost always painful and messy, but five practical strategies can help guide you and give your life new direction and meaning.

This study aimed to analyze the antiproliferative and genotoxic potential of synthetic food flavorings, nature identical passion fruit and artificial vanilla. This assessment used root meristem cells of Allium cepa L., in exposure times of 24 and 48 hours and using doses of 0.2; 0.4 and 0.6 mL. Roots were fixed in Carnoy's solution, hydrolyzed in hydrochloric acid, stained with acetic orcein an...

Throughout the ages, love has been defined as a motivated and goal-directed mechanism with explicit and implicit mechanisms. Recent evidence demonstrated that the explicit representation of love recruits subcorticocortical pathways mediating reward, emotion, and motivation systems. However, the neural basis of the implicit (unconscious) representation of love remains unknown. To assess this que...

The portrait of Schreber that emerges in this work is an analysis of a good man who was left in a subverted state by psychosis. This portrait is not unlike Freud’s Schreber, Lacan’s Schreber, and is certainly Schreber’s Schreber. Nevertheless, the understanding of Schreber’s mental hell comes out very different in this work and is affected here by the central use of a particular aspect of passi...

With the emergence of positive psychology and the subsequent positive organizational behavior movement, focusing on the employee experience and factors of positive psychological states in employees has come to the forefront. In recent years, several studies have emphasized the practical value of employee engagement and passion (the dualistic model of passion; Vallerand et al., 2003) in predicti...

Proust, who describes jealousy, is a theorist of passion. He mastered the philosophical heritage he had absorbed during his hard and exhaustive studies. Even if, in past, passion itself has not played significant role thought philosophers, Proust finds their writings considerable number principles.First, we will see how deconstructs experience passion, that be doing so resembles clinician analy...

He replied that while on a previous surgical rotation in another state, residents were “mean to one another and mean to the medical students.” He went on to say that the surgical residency program was very hierarchical and medical students “weren’t allowed” to speak with senior level residents let alone speak with the attending surgical staff. The student related being the target of verbal abus...