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Replacement or substitution in the meeting of religions
This paper provides an investigation of the meeting of Religions. Such a meeting may result in a perpetual existence side by side with no mutual contact or influence perceptible. Examples are easily found, Christians, Muslims and Hindus have lived side by side in India for centuries with little or no contact. Individually they may meet and even be mutually present at religious functions but officially and through 'office-bearers' there was no contact except as attempts at replacement. Another example may be taken from Spain where Christianity and Islam lived for centuries together. Whereas the cultural history of Spain is exhibiting a rich array of products of art, literature and thinking as a result of mutual influence there is hardly any manifestation of religious exchange as far as the organized forms of Christianity and Islam are concerned. Geographical boundaries are not decisive in spite of the popular way of dividing the earth in Christian and non-Christian countries, Buddhist countries and others. Not even the political border lines drawn on principle between "daral Islam,that is extending the mundane area of Islamic control", and the rest of the world is absolute. People of different faiths live side by side without meeting one another as far as their religious experience is concerned
Instances of belief in fate in South India
Man's life is predetermined by Karma. The deeds of an earlier existence bear their fruits in the present life. That is why the poor man is poor and the rich is happy with his wealth and good fortune. One man is born a brahman and another spends his days as a pariah. The law of Karma has spread in the wake of Buddhism all over the Indian continent and far beyond, whereas its complement and presupposition Samsara for the most part appears as an intellectual conception with little foundation in popular belief. But Karma is not blind. On the contrary it is absolutely just, and for that very reason inescapable. This is, however, modified in so far as good deeds are both possible and profitable. The fatal consequences of the Karma of previous births end with this span of existence. Life hereafter will depend on the fruits of accumulated Karma here and now
Timelike Virtual Compton Scattering from Electron-Positron Radiative Annihilation
We propose measurements of the deeply virtual Compton amplitude (DVCS),
gamma* to H H-bar gamma, in the timelike t = (p_{H} + p_{H-bar})^2 > 0
kinematic domain which is accessible at electron-positron colliders via the
radiative annihilation process e+ e- to H H-bar gamma. These processes allow
the measurement of timelike deeply virtual Compton scattering for a variety of
H H-bar hadron pairs such as pi+ pi-, K+ K-, and D D-bar as well as p p-bar. As
in the conventional spacelike DVCS, there are interfering coherent amplitudes
contributing to the timelike processes involving C= - form factors. The
interference between the amplitudes measures the phase of the C=+ timelike DVCS
amplitude relative to the phase of the timelike form factors and can be
isolated by considering the forward-backward e+ \leftrightarrow e- asymmetry.
The J=0 fixed pole contribution which arises from the local coupling of the two
photons to the quark current plays a special role. As an example we present a
simple model.Comment: 9 pages, 8 figures; v2 has improved kinematic discussio
Universal phenomenology at critical exceptional points of nonequilibrium models
In thermal equilibrium the dynamics of phase transitions is largely
controlled by fluctuation-dissipation relations: On the one hand, friction
suppresses fluctuations, while on the other hand the thermal noise is
proportional to friction constants. Out of equilibrium, this balance dissolves
and one can have situations where friction vanishes due to antidamping in the
presence of a finite noise level. We study a wide class of field
theories where this situation is realized at a phase transition, which we
identify as a critical exceptional point. In the ordered phase, antidamping
induces a continuous limit cycle rotation of the order parameter with an
enhanced number of Goldstone modes. Close to the critical exceptional
point, however, fluctuations diverge so strongly due to the suppression of
friction that in dimensions they universally either destroy a preexisting
static order, or give rise to a fluctuation-induced first order transition.
This is demonstrated within a non-perturbative approach based on
Dyson-Schwinger equations for , and a generalization for arbitrary ,
which can be solved exactly in the long wavelength limit. We show that in order
to realize this physics it is not necessary to drive a system far out of
equilibrium: Using the peculiar protection of Goldstone modes, the transition
from an magnet to a ferrimagnet is governed by an exceptional critical
point once weakly perturbed away from thermal equilibrium
Cytotoxicity of dental composites and other materials in a new in vitro device
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Characterization of the “in vitro pulp chamber” using the cytotoxicity of phenol
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Postictal serotonin levels are associated with peri-ictal apnea.
ObjectiveTo determine the relationship between serum serotonin (5-HT) levels, ictal central apnea (ICA), and postconvulsive central apnea (PCCA) in epileptic seizures.MethodsWe prospectively evaluated video EEG, plethysmography, capillary oxygen saturation (SpO2), and ECG for 49 patients (49 seizures) enrolled in a multicenter study of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). Postictal and interictal venous blood samples were collected after a clinical seizure for measurement of serum 5-HT levels. Seizures were classified according to the International League Against Epilepsy 2017 seizure classification. We analyzed seizures with and without ICA (n = 49) and generalized convulsive seizures (GCS) with and without PCCA (n = 27).ResultsPostictal serum 5-HT levels were increased over interictal levels for seizures without ICA (p = 0.01), compared to seizures with ICA (p = 0.21). In patients with GCS without PCCA, serum 5-HT levels were increased postictally compared to interictal levels (p < 0.001), but not in patients with seizures with PCCA (p = 0.22). Postictal minus interictal 5-HT levels also differed between the 2 groups with and without PCCA (p = 0.03). Increased heart rate was accompanied by increased serum 5-HT levels (postictal minus interictal) after seizures without PCCA (p = 0.03) compared to those with PCCA (p = 0.42).ConclusionsThe data suggest that significant seizure-related increases in serum 5-HT levels are associated with a lower incidence of seizure-related breathing dysfunction, and may reflect physiologic changes that confer a protective effect against deleterious phenomena leading to SUDEP. These results need to be confirmed with a larger sample size study
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