LESSONS FROM SPIRITUAL HEALING RESEARCH & PRACTICE

Healers and satisfied healees report that healing treatments are effective for numerous illnesses. Modern medicine has been skeptical of such reports, suspecting they are no more than placebo responses. This paper reviews a substantial body of research studies showing that healing may bring about changes in water, enzymes, unicellular organisms, plants, animals and humans. Possible partial mechanisms are proposed for the action of healing in a variety of situations, along with suggestions for further promising research

KESULITAN-KESULITAN DALAM MENERAPKAN INOVASI PENDIDIKAN: PERMASALABAN DAN ANGGAPAN

Implementation of an innovative curriculum en tails the encountering of difficulties, overcoming obstacles and experiencing drawbacks, yet all these are hardly documented. The present communication attempts to categorize these difficulties and to suggest possible responses based upon 12 years of experi ence in BGU. In the first part six categories of difficulties had been dis cussed. In the following part six remedies, antidotes and curative strategies are offered, and some alternative tactics are dis cussed. These are: (1) ways to create personal involvement of teachers in planning and evaluation(2) methods to train teach ers while supporting them(3) need to develop evaluation trims ures which are congruent with the innovative objectives(4) necessity to establish non-autocratic yet directive style of leadership(5) alternative rewarding procedures for educational contributions, either formal or informaland (6) scheme for built-in program assessment and for renewal procedures. Educational innovations have a better chance to last if the pitfalls are recognized and appropriate precautions are taken. Traditionalistic forces are not necessarily evilmore often they stem from maldiagnosis and maltreatment of normal socialogical processes. Key Word: Educational inovations, Medical educatio

INTUITIVE DIAGNOSIS

A clinical 'hunch' is well known to doctors, nurses, and ocher health care professionals. It may be as vague as an uneasy feeling, that defies laboratory explanarion but leads to perseverance umil a diagnosis is uncovered. An urge may arise to visit a particular patient, who turns out to be in urgent need of help. A complex diagnosis may come to mind days before it is confIrmed. The frequency of such occurrences is unknown but intuitive impressions are explored only rarely by most medical professionals. Intuitive impressions are nor limited to medical professionals. Occasional intuitive insights are reported by scientists, artists, and politicians. Indeed. intuitive experiences have influenced numerous famous people throughout history. Many healers claim that intuitive impressions are a regular aspect of their work. If true, this could offer a major contribution to medical care. Considerable research has been published in support of the efficacy of healing. Fewer studies are available to assess the validiry of claims for intuitive diagnosis. These are reviewed in this article. Two qualitative studies of intuitive diagnosis are presented, with discussions of theoretical issues and problems with methodology

LESSONS FROM SPIRITUAL HEALING RESEARCH & PRACTICE

Healers and satisfied healees report that healing treatments are effective for numerous illnesses. Modern medicine has been skeptical of such reports, suspecting they are no more than placebo responses. This paper reviews a substantial body of research studies showing that healing may bring about changes in water, enzymes, unicellular organisms, plants, animals and humans. Possible partial mechanisms are proposed for the action of healing in a variety of situations, along with suggestions for further promising research

DISTANT HEALING

This article reviews 61 studies of distant healing, which is healing that is deliberately sent by one or more healers as an intent, wish, meditation, or prayer to a he alee who may be in the healers' presence or may be far away. Distance, even thousands of miles, does not appear to limit the effects of healing. Significant effects of distant healing are demonstrated through randomized controlled trials in humans, animals, plants, bacteria, yeasts, cells in the laboratory, and DNA. Fascinating new insights about energy medicine and integrative care are suggested by these studies. Noteworthy are 120 further randomized controlled studies of healing given with the healers' hands held on or near the body, again with many of these demonstrating highly significant effects, not included in this article. 1,2 While distant healing appears to contradict our ordinary sense of reality and the laws defined by Newtonian science, there are several theoretical paradigms that suggest explanations for healing

DISTANT HEALING

This article reviews 61 studies of distant healing, which is healing that is deliberately sent by one or more healers as an intent, wish, meditation, or prayer to a he alee who may be in the healers' presence or may be far away. Distance, even thousands of miles, does not appear to limit the effects of healing. Significant effects of distant healing are demonstrated through randomized controlled trials in humans, animals, plants, bacteria, yeasts, cells in the laboratory, and DNA. Fascinating new insights about energy medicine and integrative care are suggested by these studies. Noteworthy are 120 further randomized controlled studies of healing given with the healers' hands held on or near the body, again with many of these demonstrating highly significant effects, not included in this article. 1,2 While distant healing appears to contradict our ordinary sense of reality and the laws defined by Newtonian science, there are several theoretical paradigms that suggest explanations for healing

Effect of phosphorus dopant concentration on the carrier mobility in crystalline silicon

This study investigated the effect of phosphorus dopant concentration on mobility of crystalline silicon (c-Si). It considers different temperature ranges, from 100 K to 500 K, and dopant concentration from 1012 cm-3 to 1020 cm-3 in relation to its effect on the mobility of the crystalline silicon. This study indicates that the mobility of phosphorus doped silicon, n-type silicon, at different dopant concentration, tends to reduce as the temperature is increased. On the other hand, the mobility of the doped semiconductor, at different temperatures, showed different trends as the dopant concentration increases: I) mobility decreased in between 1015 to 1017 cm-3, II) mobility saturates doping concentrations less than 1014 cm-3, and III) mobility is not significantly affected, by increasing the temperature for high doping concentration 1018 to 1020 cm-3. The two issues, lattice and impurity, dominate one another depending on the doping concentration and temperature, and thus contributed to dependence of mobility on temperature, in different trend, while being dependent on the fundamental theory of doping in semiconductors. Based on the study, as the temperature gets higher for higher doping concentration, mobility by the impurity scattering increases while it decreases by the lattice scattering, the two cases balance one another, and as a result mobility becomes almost constant, that is, the rate of change of mobility is relatively insignificant.Keywords: Semiconductor, Mobility, Lattice scattering, Impurity scatterin

Loan Words in the English of Modern Orthodox Jews: Yiddish or Hebrew?

Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2000