BACKGROUND End-of-life dreams and visions (ELDVs) have been well documented throughout history and across cultures. The impact of pre-death experiences on dying individuals and their loved ones can be profoundly meaningful. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to quantify the frequency of dreams/visions experienced by patients nearing the end of life, examine the content and subjective significance of the d...

What advice would you give to someone who is considering a career in science? It is important not to shy away from addressing big questions. This will require actively seeking interdisciplinary knowledge, and developing collaborative skills. It is also important to integrate well in the scientific community, and participate in community efforts (such as reviewing manuscripts and grants). If you...

Karl Popper famously opposed Marxism in general and its philosophical core – the Marxist dialectic – in particular. As a progressive thinker, Popper saw in dialectic a source of dogmatism damaging to philosophy and political theory. Popper had summarized his views on dialectic in an article that was first delivered in 1937 and subsequently republished as a chapter of his book (2002, pp. 419-451...

Introduction The effect of imperialism on the economic development of Third World countries has long been a subject of interest to Marxist scholars. The international expansion of capitalist states, which led to the creation of a world market and the integration of pre-capitalist countries into this market, heralded a new phase of capitalism the implications of which are still being debated. Th...

Her eyelids were closing. It must have been the stillness in room that made her realize. The two young elders advanced their slides across laptop screen and it felt late. She nodded slowly. Then more quickly, attentively, to show that, no, of course she wasn't dozing off. Surely, somewhere mission home there was drawer, it, a folder with plane ticket for morrow. alert.She looked out powder blue...

In this article I examine the architecture and architectural thinking of Finnish Academician Reima Pietilä (1923–93) in relation to his design methodology. was an architect with original, creative, artistic personality, who set out early career develop form language, theory modern architecture, moving it towards organic expressionism. nature mysticism a source inspiration for him, ‘nature archi...