Embodied Cognition by Lawrence Shapiro is a fine text that focuses on the issues of body, embodiment, and the environment in cognitive science, philosophy, and psychology. As the title suggests, Shapiro's book offers us a glimpse into the broadly defined, and still growing, research paradigm known as "embodied" cognition. Within this particular paradigm the body and environment are placed in th...

Within the past decades, developments in manufacturing have been turbulent and radical. For the manufacturing and management sciences, revolutionary changes took place. Based on Kuhn’s findings on the nature of scientific revolutions, the paper consolidates projections for future developments in manufacturing by exploiting interactions of the most important drivers of these developments. Major ...

Cardiovascular (CV) diseases in general and heart failure (HF) in particular are major contributors to death and morbidity and are also recognized as important drivers of health care expenditure. The PARADIGM-HF trial was a pivotal trial designed to compare the long-term effects of LCZ696 with enalapril in patients with symptomatic HF with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). This review article ...

a critical analysis of reader-text, especially the sacred texts as the important topic of hermeneutic, is one of the focal points of attention among scholars of humanities. this paper, through a comparative study between the bible and the qur’an, concentrates on the image of woman in the account of creation. the paper first shows that there are deep differences between these two sacred texts co...

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Music, a universal human endeavor, offers a unique perspective on studying the humanities. Studying music combines the intellectual and emotional meaning listeners make from music, engaging them in aesthetically focused-activities. In this article, the benefits of teaching music using a methodology based on critical thinking are discussed. Additionally, the nature of critical thinking as an ins...

The conflict between classical and modern theories of criticality is resolved by recognising that both theories work with approximate models, whose relative merits can be assessed by their response to efforts to refine them. Contrary to many claims, critical exponents are not tools fitted to discriminate between different models. True, Riemannian theory which characterises analytic functions in...

Toxic epidermal necrolysis is an adverse immunological skin reaction secondary in most cases to the administration of a drug. Toxic epidermal necrolysis, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, and multiform exudative erythema are part of the same disease spectrum. The mortality rate from toxic epidermal necrolysis is approximately 30%. The pathophysiology of toxic epidermal necrolysis is similar in many res...