SELF HYPNOSIS

Biosemiotics, 2017

Although research into the biosemiotic mechanisms underlying the purposeful behavior of brainless living systems is extensive, researchers have not adequately described biosemiosis among neurons. As the conscious use of signs is well-covered by the various fields of semiotics, we focus on subconscious sign action. Subconscious semiotic habits, both functional and dysfunctional, may be created and reinforced in the brain not necessarily in a logical manner and not necessarily through repeated reinforcement. We review literature that suggests hypnosis may be effective in changing subconscious dysfunctional habits, and we offer a biosemiotic framework for understanding these results. If it has been difficult to evaluate any psychological approach, including hypnosis, this may be because contemporary neuroscience lacks a theory of the sign. We argue that understanding the fluid nature of representation in biological organisms is prerequisite to understanding the nature of the subconscious and may lead to more effective of treatments for dysfunctional habits developed through personal experience or culture.

Ethos, 2018

From relative obscurity in the 1990s, hypnotherapy has become a major industry in contemporary Indonesia. This article examines its tremendous surge in popularity, and the subsequent trajectories of its vernacularization. It shows the hypnosis boom to have been underpinned by the introduction of a distinctive 'thirty percent theory, seventy percent practice' seminar format, structured in such a way as to allow mass-market consumers to experience themselves as hypnotically efficacious. With such efficacy proving unsustainable outside the seminar context, Indonesians reached for and developed alternative conceptions of 'hypnosis' that allowed them to continue as effective hypnotherapists. Such material demonstrates the value of incorporating a theory of interactional affordances into anthropological models of cultural transmission and globalization. Abstrak Hipnoterapi, sesuatu yang tidak begitu terkenal pada tahun 1990-an, telah menjadi industri besar di Indonesia. Artikel ini membahas lonjakan popularitasnya yang luar biasa, dan arah indigenisasi berikutnya. Menurut penulis, kunci popularitas hipnosis di Indonesia adalah penciptaan bentuk pelatihan dengan komposisi materi tiga puluh persen teori dan tujuh puluh persen praktek. Bentuk pelatihan ini memungkinkan konsumen pasar massal merasakan diri sebagai orang yang berbakat di bidang hipnosis, makanya mereka sangat antusias terhadap

Academia Biology, 2023

This study aims to investigate the effect of in-feed clinoptilolite treatment on biomarkers such as serum amyloid A (SAA), haptoglobin, apolipoprotein A-I (APO A-I), and paraoxonase-1 (PON1) activity, triglycerides (TRIG) and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol in dairy cows with subclinical mastitis. A total of 69 Holstein dairy cows, aged 2–7 years, kept on a farm in North-Western Croatia, were included. Cows were randomly assigned into three groups: (1) Clinoptilolite (CPL) group with subclinical mastitis (n = 20), treated in-feed 50 g natural powdered clinoptilolite twice daily from 270th day of pregnancy to the end of study; (2) nontreated cows (n = 19) with subclinical mastitis (SCM); and (3) the control group (CON) of healthy cows (n = 30). Blood samples were taken: on the day of calving and on days 5, 12, 19, 26, 33, 40, and 60 after parturition. The concentration of SAA was highest in the SCM group (p < 0.001). PON1 activity was statistically significantly lower (p < 0.001) in cows from the SCM group than in the CPL and CON groups. Decreased PON1 activity and increased APO A-I were observed in the case of SCM. The positive effect of the addition of vibroactivated clinoptilolite in the feed of treated cows resulted in reduced values of APO A-I, SAA, and haptoglobin, and higher activity of PON1 during the two-month period of lactation after calving, on the basis of which we can assume that they may be less sensitive to infection in SCM.

Diachronica

The widespread Uralic family offers several advantages for tracing prehistory: a firm absolute chronological anchor point in an ancient contact episode with well-dated Indo-Iranian; other points of intersection or diagnostic non-intersection with early Indo-European (the Late Proto-Indo-European-speaking Yamnaya culture of the western steppe, the Afanasievo culture of the upper Yenisei, and the Fatyanovo culture of the middle Volga); lexical and morphological reconstruction sufficient to establish critical absences of sharings and contacts. We add information on climate, linguistic geography, typology, and cognate frequency distributions to reconstruct the Uralic origin and spread. We argue that the Uralic homeland was east of the Urals and initially out of contact with Indo-European. The spread was rapid and without widespread shared substratal effects. We reconstruct its cause as the interconnected reactions of early Uralic and Indo-European populations to a catastrophic climate c...

es una empresa que inicio sus operaciones en la ciudad de Arequipa en 1941, siendo hoy la empresa líder en el país en la elaboración y en la comercialización de productos lácteos, tanto de leches industrializadas (leche evaporada y leche fresca UHT), como de sus derivados (mantequilla, yogurt y queso). La empresa mantiene importante participación en el mercado de refrescos, de jugos, de néctares, de conservas de pescado, de café instantáneo y de mermeladas, entre otros productos de consumo masivo. Gloria cuenta actualmente con una participación de 82.4% en el mercado de leche evaporada. Este producto, en sus diversas marcas y presentaciones es el que mayor relevancia tiene en los negocios de la empresa, representando 61.21% de sus ingresos (incluyendo exportaciones), en el periodo bajo análisis. Gloria forma parte de uno de los más importantes conglomerados industriales de propiedad de inversionistas peruanos, siendo el principal activo del Grupo Gloria, el cual está conformado por empresas que operan en diversos sectores: lácteos y alimentos; cemento y nitratos; papeles, cartones y envases; en el sector agroindustrial (azúcar), y de alcohol; teniendo también presencia en diferentes sectores de servicios como: transporte, manejo logístico y comercial, así como inversiones en otros países, como: USA (Puerto Rico),

Bu tezin yazılmasında bilimsel ahlak kurallarına uyulduğunu, başkalarının eserlerinden yararlanılması durumunda bilimsel normlara uygun olarak atıfta bulunulduğunu, kullanılan verilerde herhangi bir tahrifat yapılmadığını, tezin herhangi bir kısmının bu üniversite veya başka bir üniversitedeki başka bir tez çalışması olarak sunulmadığını beyan ederim.

La profundidad de las superficies. Estudios sobre materialidad fotográfica., 2022

¿Qué significa pensar materialmente una fotografía? ¿Cuáles son las relaciones políticas, económicas, culturales e históricas que operan en la estructura material de estas imágenes? La profundidad de las superficies reúne un conjunto de investigaciones provenientes de diversas disciplinas que indaga en las fotografías desde su fisicalidad. Esta forma abordaje permite dar cuenta de las fotografías, de estudiarlas y asistir a un encuentro con ellas desde su composición y estructura material. Desde propuestas que postulan los vínculos complejos de la fotografía con debates científicos y filosóficos sobre la materia o las prácticas descolonizadoras que involucran los objetos fotográficos y su circulación, hasta trabajos que plantean los vínculos de la materialidad fotográfica con la ecología, el universo digital, la inteligencia artificial, y los archivos. Este libro invita a transitar la pregunta por la materialidad de los artefactos fotográficos como un modo de estar en el mundo y propone nuevas maneras de (re)pensar nuestra relación con ellos en tiempo presente.