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John Daily changed their profile picture on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months ago
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Vitus Angermeier deposited Epidemic Prevention. Precursors of Public Health in Early Āyurveda? on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months ago
Āyurveda, the predominant medical system in pre-modern South Asia, is by definition a very individualistic tradition of healing, discerning and treating the patients under special consideration of their personal constitution, diet, physical strength, habituation, character and age. Furthermore, the āyurvedic source texts show a strong commitment t…[Read more]
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Larry Eames started the topic Job Posting: IAIA Public and Technical Services Librarian in the discussion
ARLIS/NA Mountain West on ARLISNA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoHello Mountain West ARLISians!
IAIA in Santa Fe is hiring! Applications are accepted through Aug. 14 for their Public and Technical Services Librarian position: https://recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/Jobs/Details/1800414. You can find answers to general questions on their HR site: https://iaia.edu/about/employment/.
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Tsao, Hung-ping (2023). The Natural Sudoku Lecture 10. In: “Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)”, Wang, Lawrence K. and Tsao, Hung-ping (editors). Volume 5, NUMBER 9A, September 2023; 58 pages. Lenox Institute Press, Auburndale, MA, 02466, USA. No. STEAM-VOL5-NUM9A-SEP2023; ISBN…[Read more]
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Dalitso Mvula deposited AN INVESTIGATION OF THE ACQUISITION, TRANSFER AND PRESERVATION OF INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE BY TRADITIONAL HEALERS IN CHIBOMBO DISTRICT OF ZAMBIA on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months ago
Indigenous Knowledge on healing is in danger of diminishing because of modern medical facilities and yet there are inadequate efforts from national and organizational institutions to capture this knowledge. Therefore, this study aimed at investigating the acquisition, transfer and preservation of Indigenous Knowledge by traditional healers in…[Read more]
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Heather Slania deposited Tell the Truth: Using Library Program Review for Transformation in the group
ARLIS/NA Management Special Interest Group on ARLISNA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe presentation slides from this session provide a comprehensive guide to library program reviews, an increasingly common practice in academic libraries. The session emphasizes the importance of honesty in highlighting the library’s strengths and weaknesses during these reviews.
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Dr. Bryan Dosono's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months ago
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Luis Ernesto Paz Enrique deposited Identificadores persistentes: necesidad de su uso en los procesos de edición científica in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoEn la era digital actual, donde la cantidad de información generada y almacenada es abrumadora, surge el desafío de preservar y acceder a esta de manera eficiente y duradera. Los identificadores persistentes se presentan como una solución prometedora para abordar este desafío, al proporcionar una forma única y perdurable de identificar y acce…[Read more]
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Kayvan Tahmasebian deposited Licit Magic — GlobalLIT Working Papers №18. Taṣḥīf: A Poetics of Misreading in the group
Global Literary Theory on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis working paper deals with the potentials of visual paronomasia and misreading in Persian poetics, and what they imply for textual criticism. In Arabic and Persian poetry, words gain an aesthetic value for their shape, the way they appear in writing. A visual parallelism between words defines a special kind of paronomasia known as script…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Dawkin’s Selfish Gene Fallacy-False Premise -a “limited form of altruism” vs studies of compassion = Oxford Handbook of Compassion, Sprecher and Fehr: spirituality correlated with compassion, Battle of Somme 50,000 casualties, esprit de corps Chosin Res. in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoDawkins Fallacy – False Premise
The statement, “However, as we shall see, there are special circumstances in which a gene can achieve its own selfish goals best by fostering a limited form of altruism at the level of individual animals.” Is a fallacy/false premise Historically, compassion and self-less behaviors are not a “limited form of alt…[Read more] -
Charles Peck Jr deposited Dawkin’s Selfish Gene Fallacy-False Premise -a “limited form of altruism” vs studies of compassion = Oxford Handbook of Compassion, Sprecher and Fehr: spirituality correlated with compassion, Battle of Somme 50,000 casualties, esprit de corps Chosin Res. in the group
Psychology and Neuroscience on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoDawkins Fallacy – False Premise
The statement, “However, as we shall see, there are special circumstances in which a gene can achieve its own selfish goals best by fostering a limited form of altruism at the level of individual animals.” Is a fallacy/false premise Historically, compassion and self-less behaviors are not a “limited form of alt…[Read more] - Load More