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Meditations on Ceva’s Theorem
"... This paper is dedicated to the unforgettable H. S. M. Coxeter, who had a striking ability to relate visual thinking to formal notions Abstract. This paper deals with the structure of incidence theorems in projective geometry. We will show that many of these incidence theorems can be interpreted as c ..."
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This paper is dedicated to the unforgettable H. S. M. Coxeter, who had a striking ability to relate visual thinking to formal notions Abstract. This paper deals with the structure of incidence theorems in projective geometry. We will show that many of these incidence theorems can be interpreted
MEDITE: A Unilingual Textual Aligner
- Advances in Natural Language Processing, 5th International Conference on NLP, FinTAL 2006
, 2006
"... Abstract. This paper addresses a problem of natural language text alignment, from a humanities discipline called textual genetic criticism where different text versions must be compared. The paper shows that this task is hard because such versions can be very different and texts with a lot of intern ..."
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of internal repetitions present specific difficulties. MEDITE is a natural language text aligner that compares texts written in the same language. It detects modifications at character level, as opposed to related applications which either remain at word level or give poor results at character level
The Application of Mindfulness Meditation in Mental Health:
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, 1993
"... The methods of Grounded Theory and Protocol Analysis were triangulated in a study of mindfulness meditation as used by participants with a history of depression. Protocol analysis is an empiricist qualitative method (with an element of quantification) that has received little attention as a so ..."
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The methods of Grounded Theory and Protocol Analysis were triangulated in a study of mindfulness meditation as used by participants with a history of depression. Protocol analysis is an empiricist qualitative method (with an element of quantification) that has received little attention as a
Meditation and Neuroscience: from basic research to clinical practice
- In “Integrative Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine: Perspectives, Practices and
, 2010
"... Meditation has been extensively practiced in many civilizations for thousands of years as a means of cultivating a state of well-being and for religious purposes. It has now started to be studied in terms of its influence on the brain and body and used in clinical settings. This chapter will first r ..."
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in human societies all over the world down to shamanic practices in the Paleolithic (Walter & Neumann Fridman, 2004; Winkelman, 2000). Formal references to meditation can be found in ancient texts as early as the third century BCE in
MEDIT: Structuring Documents for Web based Teaching
- in Proceedings of CIDE'98
, 1998
"... This paper discusses the use of Web technology to design and develop a distributed interactive teaching environment over the Internet. It emphasizes the advantages of a structural representation of pedagogical documents that exploit information on the network in an educational framework. The structu ..."
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. The structured documents paradigm, based on the definition of document classes that distinguish between logical and physical aspects, clearly demonstrate the benefits of the approach in the field of document production. The attribute grammar formalism that we implemented in SGML (from which HTML and XML
On some implications of formalized theories in our life
"... The formalized theories in which are considered different types of logics give us an easier way of understanding of our own interpretations of the concepts and of the events of life. In the paper "Paradoxist mathematics " [l] Smarandache proved that contradiction is not a catastrophe even ..."
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in mathematics and he taught us how to handle it. Even more, this can encourage us in our life, for the infinite dimensional capacity of human condition. Through this paper we meditate on the great diversity of human condition seen through the axiomatization of a formalized theory. Thus the science gives some
10.1177/1534735404273841Shannahoff-KhalsaPatie t Perspectives Kundalini Yoga Meditation Techniques for Psycho-oncology and as Potential Therapies for Cancer
"... The ancient system of Kundalini Yoga (KY) includes a vast array of meditation techniques. Some were discovered to be specific for treating psychiatric disorders and others are supposedly beneficial for treating cancers. To date, 2 clinical trials have been conducted for treating obsessive-compulsive ..."
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The ancient system of Kundalini Yoga (KY) includes a vast array of meditation techniques. Some were discovered to be specific for treating psychiatric disorders and others are supposedly beneficial for treating cancers. To date, 2 clinical trials have been conducted for treating obsessive
ORIGINAL PAPER A randomized controlled trial of compassion cultivation training: Effects on mindfulness, affect, and emotion regulation
"... Abstract Compassion is a positive orientation towards suffering that may be enhanced through compassion training and is thought to influence psychological func-tioning. However, the effects of compassion training on mindfulness, affect, and emotion regulation are not known. We conducted a randomized ..."
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regulation. Compared to WL, CCT resulted in increased mindfulness and happiness, as well as decreased worry and emotional suppression. Within CCT, the amount of formal meditation practiced was related to reductions in worry and emotional sup-pression. These findings suggest that compassion cultiva-tion
Enhancing compassion: a randomized controlled trial of a compassion cultivation training program
, 2012
"... Abstract Psychosocial interventions often aim to alleviate negative emotional states. However, there is growing interest in cultivating positive emotional states and qualities. One particular target is compassion, but it is not yet clear whether compassion can be trained. A community sample of 100 a ..."
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, and selfcompassion. Compared to the waitlist control condition, CCT resulted in significant improvements in all three domains of compassion—compassion for others, receiving compassion from others, and self-compassion. The amount of formal meditation practiced during CCT was associated with increased compassion
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"... 2 Aims: Self-efficacy beliefs and outcome expectancies are central to Social Cognitive Theory (SCT). Alcohol studies demonstrate the theoretical and clinical utility of applying both SCT constructs. This study examined the relationship between self-efficacy and outcome expectancies in a cannabis tre ..."
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treatment sample, and tests formal meditational models. Design: Patients referred for cannabis treatment completed a comprehensive clinical assessment, including recently validated cannabis expectancy and refusal self-efficacy scales. Setting: A hospital alcohol and drug outpatient clinic. Participants
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