Search results for "consciousness"

The rediscovery of nature: the lost innocence of the digital world

2022

L’impatto della nostra impronta ecologica legata al tasso di crescita incontrollato della tecnologia digitale sta portando ad un aggravamento degli squilibri ambientali esistenti. Il digitale e i new media che fino a ieri ci apparivano una terra promessa dell’emancipazione umana, oggi rilevano enormi effetti inquinanti sulla biosfera che devono essere obbligatoriamente evidenziati. Nel contributo si intende sottoporre a indagine le cause della “perduta innocenza” del mondo digitale anche attraverso una ricostruzione analitica sui fenomeni che sino a poco tempo fa venivano percepiti come veicoli immateriali, assolutamente non invasivi per l’ambiente e dalle straordinarie potenzialità di prog…

Turkish women writers in English translation

2011

The present paper aims to present a brief survey of Turkish women writers in English translation. Due to the dominant position of English, Turkey has been rather dependent on translations from this language and the flow of translations into the opposite direction has been quite slow. Yet, there is a considerable increase in the number of translations from Turkish into English especially since the 1980s. This also holds true for the works of women writers, and, of women’s fiction in particular, which is closely related to the bond between writing and women’s increased consciousness. The paper also briefly touches upon issues such as what has not been translated and why, and the role translat…

Early Modern Theories

2013

The notion of consciousness was used by early modern philosophers in various ways. In dualist ontologies, the nature of thought was often characterised with the help of consciousness: while matter was understood as extended in space, thought was taken to be that which is accompanied by consciousness. Whether the mind always thinks and whether mental activity in its entirety is conscious were among the questions which addressed the relation between thought and consciousness. The possibility of unconscious thought was generally overlooked. For example, Locke rejected the Cartesian tenet that we always think by appealing to particular phenomena which suggest that we do not always think, such a…

The Value of Media in the Acquisition of Master Degree Program: Students’ Assessment

2015

Rapid development of innovative processes characterizes the conditions of the scientific and technical revolution. The understanding about the place and role of the man in the innovative society also changes. Therefore the readiness of the social and individual consciousness to changes in all spheres of life (including education) and the acceptance of the novelties as a value are important. It testifies about a new orientation of education which applies to methods as well as their forms, content and aim. But is the preschool teacher ready to use media in her professional work? Does the acquisition of higher education promote it? The aim of the article is to study the use of the innovative t…

The value of statistical laws in physics and social sciences

2007

The deterministic conception of nature implies in itself a real cause of weakness in the irremediable contradiction that it faces with the most certain data of our consciousness. G. SOREL attempted to compose this disagreement with the distinction between artificial nature and natural nature (this last acausal), but in this way he denied the unity of science. On the other hand, the formal analogy between the statistical laws of physics and the ones of social sciences credited the opinion that human facts also undergo a rigid determinism. It is therefore important that quantum mechanics principles have brought to recognize the statistical character of basic laws of elementary processes, in a…

Valenza umana della cura (care) dei pazienti in SVP e ruolo dei caregivers

2016

[Human value of care and caregivers' role in the management of permanent vegetative state (SVP) patients] As stated by the Royal College of Physicians, «patients who remain in a vegetative or minimally conscious state following profound brain injury present a complex array of clinical and ethical challenges to those who care for them». Patients in clinical condition of Permanent Vegetative State (SVP) are unaware of self and environment, enable of language comprehension or expression; they are able to survive along provided that we are able to ensure primary care, such as eating and hydration. With regard to this existential landmark, caregiver’s role is not only legally related, as guardia…

Understanding Mobile Showrooming Based on a Technology Acceptance and Use Model

2021

Showrooming is an increasingly popular behaviour in the omnichannel era. The purpose of this paper is to understand the consumer intention to showroom through a technology acceptance and use model based on UTAUT2 that includes value consciousness and purchase involvement as drivers of showrooming intention and mobile dependency as a moderator. Data collected via a survey answered by 659 showroomers were analysed using Partial Least Squares (PLS). Results show that value consciousness, purchase involvement, hedonic motivation and social influence explain mobile showrooming intention and mobile dependency moderates the impact of value consciousness on mobile showrooming intention. Our results…

The Structure of Self-Consciousness: A Fourteenth-Century Debate

2007

Diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of hemiplegic migraine

2020

Hemiplegic migraine (HM) is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous condition with attacks of headache and motor weakness which may be associated with impaired consciousness, cerebellar ataxia and intellectual disability. Motor symptoms usually last <72 hours and are associated with visual or sensory manifestations, speech impairment or brainstem aura. HM can occur as a sporadic HM or familiar HM with an autosomal dominant mode of inheritance. Mutations in CACNA1A, ATP1A2 and SCN1A encoding proteins involved in ion transport are implicated. The pathophysiology of HM is close to the process of typical migraine with aura, but appearing with a lower threshold and more severity. We review…

2017

Working memory (WM) performance declines with age. However, several studies have shown that WM training may lead to performance increases not only in the trained task, but also in untrained cognitive transfer tasks. It has been suggested that transfer effects occur if training task and transfer task share specific processing components that are supposedly processed in the same brain areas. In the current study, we investigated whether single-task WM training and training-related alterations in neural activity might support performance in a dual-task setting, thus assessing transfer effects to higher-order control processes in the context of dual-task coordination. A sample of older adults (…