background: ocsillator system is recognized by many water plant treatment designers for having many advantages, such as combination of mixing processes, flocculation and sedimentation processes in the same unit, the possibility of softening and lucidity simultaneously, and relatively acceptable efficiency. despite using this process in number of the regions in the country, enough researches hav...

In this article, we present the results of a literature survey on case reports of the unexpected return of mental clarity and memory shortly before death, which we have called "terminal lucidity." We focus specifically on terminal lucidity in mental disorders, of which we have found 81 case references. Of these, we were able to retrieve 49 case reports, most of which had been recorded before 18...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to examine the level of lucidity and its relation with metacognitive beliefs and dream anxiety in medical students. METHODS Nine hundred sixteen medical students were enrolled in the study. The participants were assessed with the Lucidity and Consciousness in Dreams Scale (LuCiD), the Metacognition Questionnaire-30 (MCQ-30), and the Van Dream Anxiety Sca...

The unexpected return of mental clarity and memory shortly before death in patients suffering from severe psychiatric and neurologic disorders, which we have called "terminal lucidity", has been reported in the medical literature over the past 250 years, but has received little attention. We review a range of terminal lucidity cases in order to encourage investigation of the mechanisms involved...

Lucid dreaming is a state of awareness that one is dreaming, without leaving the sleep state. Dream reports show that self-reflection and volitional control are more pronounced in lucid compared with nonlucid dreams. Mostly on these grounds, lucid dreaming has been associated with metacognition. However, the link to lucid dreaming at the neural level has not yet been explored. We sought for rel...

The problem of how biochemical processes in the brain give rise to conscious experience is still unanswered. This paper aims at stimulating debate surrounding this enigma by advocating study unusual and anomalous aspects consciousness. For purpose, contents are organized three parts. In first part, I provide a brief overview on unsolved riddles mind. These include episodes lucidity that have be...

Lucid dreaming and transpersonal studies are two vigorous and important fields with overlapping interests and much to contribute to one another. Unfortunately, they have remained largely isolated and ignorant of each other, in spite of the fact that lucid dreaming research has significant transpersonal implications. Researchers are now investigating advanced forms of lucidity, finding technolog...

As the authors modestly say in their preface this small book sets out to be a guide to the student and practitioner, as to the sort of case where they may expect help from the specialist in psychotherapy ; and how the physician and the family doctor may often help the patient to conquer his disease. In this, deliberately limited, aim, it amply succeeds and its 156 pages are full of sound advice...

to expand this book into two volumes. Although it has been considerably enlarged, and although the number of illustrations has been doubled since the first edition, yet by the employment of a deeper page, and the occasional use of small print in describing cases and in the accounts of the less frequently employed operations, he has kept the book within the compass of a single volume. We do not ...

We formally state and investigate the lucidity paradigm for graph clusterings. The rationale that substantiates this concept is the trade-off between the achieved quality and the expected quality of a graph clustering. A recently defined quality measure for graph clusterings, modularity, is one specific realization of this paradigm, in fact the pioneering one. On a theoretical side, we state a ...