Karena bahasa alami ada dalam dua modalitas yang berbeda – modalitas visual-gestural dari bahasa isyarat dan modalitas auditori-oral dari bahasa lisan – jelas bahwa semua bidang penelitian dalam linguistik modern akan mendapatkan manfaat dari penelitian tentang bahasa isyarat. Meskipun studi sebelumnya telah memberikan wawasan penting tentang berbagai fenomena bahasa isyarat, masih banyak a…
Human Geography; World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions); Political Science; Economic Geography
In the Panathenaic Games, there was a torch race for teams of ephebes that started from the altars of Eros and Prometheus at Plato’s Academy and finished on the Acropolis at the altar of Athena, goddess of wisdom. It was competitive, yes, but it was also sacred, aimed at a noble goal. To win, you needed to cooperate with your teammates and keep the delicate flame alive as you ran up the hill.…
Cardiovascular disease is the main cause of death in the West, and vascular disease is the most common cardiovascular clinical problem. The disease results in serious morbidity and mortality, and carries economic cost implications. While conventional risk factors are well established, and their biomarkers regularly monitored, patients may continue to suffer subclinical active disease, even in t…
Integrasi informasi dari berbagai modalitas sensorik memengaruhi perilaku. Hal ini dapat menimbulkan manfaat perilaku seperti waktu reaksi yang lebih cepat dan peningkatan deteksi sinyal bising, tetapi juga dapat menghasilkan ilusi, yang semuanya telah dicirikan oleh tanda-tanda saraf tertentu. Namun, meskipun efek integrasi multisensorik ini sebagian besar diterima, peran perhatian dalam prose…
One of the interests of this Research Topic was to provide an explanation of the relationship between the sensorimotor process and one’s interaction with the environment. Huang et al. aimed at the exploring the potential dissociation between the sense of 1PP-location (i.e., first-person perspective) and body-location. In doing so they approached a topic that is of great interest in the fi…
Beyond Description brings anthropologists and other social scientists together to examine the problem of explanation. What is "an explanation?" What can it add? What makes it authoritative, clarifying, or misleading? Whom does it serve and how is it produced? These questions lie at the heart of recent public crises of confidence in expertise, political representation, and classic liberal vision…
Selama empat dekade terakhir, pendekatan siklus hidup sosiologis dengan fokusnya pada interaksi struktur dan agensi sepanjang waktu, perspektif siklus hidup, telah menjadi perspektif penelitian penting dalam ilmu sosial. Namun, meskipun telah berhasil diterapkan pada hampir semua bidang penyelidikan sosial, penggunaannya jauh lebih sedikit dalam penelitian yang mempelajari populasi migran dan p…
Cardiovascular disease is the main cause of death in the West, and vascular disease is the most common cardiovascular clinical problem. The disease results in serious morbidity and mortality, and carries economic cost implications. While conventional risk factors are well established, and their biomarkers regularly monitored, patients may continue to suffer subclinical active disease, even in t…
The anthology explores breath from the perspective of the arts and humanities, as well as experimental scientific and design practices. Focus is on the period from 1900 to the present day – an era during in which air has become a precarious medium, co-created and manipulated by humans. Against this backdrop, breath appears as an elusive yet vital substance that reveals connections between the…