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“It's Not Deterministic and It Will Never Be Deterministic”: A Qualitative Study on Stakeholder Perspectives of Polygenic Risk Score Testing for Post‐Traumatic Stress Disorder

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) causes significant mental and physical distress, yet only a small subset of individuals exposed to trauma develop the disorder. Scientists and clinicians are still unable to predict who will get the disorder or how it will manifest.
Brandy M. Fox
wiley   +1 more source

Losing Deixis: Referentialist Cosmologies in Postcolonial East-Africa and Beyond [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The advantage of comparing ng’hambo and nyato in terms of their deictic versus referential discourse is methodological. To substantiate our hypothesis, we examine respective instances of oracular discourse (applying among others Silverstein’s semiotic ...
Stroeken, Koenraad
core   +1 more source

Kala defanged: Managing power in Java away from the centre [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Copyright © 2012 Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. Content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.If discussions of power in Indonesia have been too Java-centric, power talk about Java has been equally ...
Beatty, A
core   +2 more sources

The impact of the current student loans regime on Muslim student engagement and retention in English higher education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract There is much interest in the potential for an alternative funding system for higher education students in England to support the spiritual and worldly needs of British Muslim students. At the heart of this issue lies a tension over whether the student financing system in English HE is haram, or forbidden under Islamic (Shari'ah) law, because ...
Richard Hall   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of the Laurel on Apolline Divination: Affecting the Mind Without the Use of Drugs

open access: yesNew Classicists, 2021
Many scholars argue about the possible influence of drugs on the mind of the prophets practicing Apolline divination in Ancient Greece. Laurel has been one of the first subjects analysed in this regard, as the Pythia reportedly chewed laurel leaves ...
Giulia Frigerio
doaj  

On Buddhism, Divination and the Worldly Arts: Textual Evidence from the Theravāda Tradition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This essay attends to the sticky web of indigenous terminology concerning divination and other so-called “mundane” or “worldly” arts, focusing primarily upon Buddhist canonical texts preserved in Pāli, augmented by references to commentarial and ...
Fiordalis, David
core   +1 more source

‘School is their whole world’: Teachers' perspectives on loneliness among children and adolescents from England and mainland China

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract As front‐line observers and active participants in pupils' daily lives, teachers closely monitor pupils' social interactions, emotional states and behavioural changes. Their unique perspective enables them to detect problems in the social lives of their pupils that may not be immediately visible to peers, parents or mental health professionals.
Yixuan Zheng   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

How do secondary schools in England talk about modern languages? A corpus‐assisted discourse analysis of school websites

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Situating the study within an ecological perspective on language education, this article examines how secondary schools in England present Modern Languages (MLs) on official school websites. Focusing on 44 schools in Local Authorities with the lowest percentage average entry for the Languages pillar of the EBacc, we built a text database ...
Zhu Hua, Yunpeng Du, Elin Arfon
wiley   +1 more source

Inspiration and Technē : Divination in Plato’s Ion

open access: yesPlato, 2015
In Plato’s Ion, inspiration functions in contradistinction to technē. Yet, paradoxically, in both cases, there is an appeal to divination. I interrogate this in order to show how these two disparate accounts can be accommodated.
Aaron Landry
doaj   +1 more source

Génies, êtes-vous là ? Consultant, implique-toi ! Devineresse, sois perspicace !

open access: yesAteliers d'Anthropologie, 2022
For the diviner, divination is “work” (faliwi) that is necessary to satisfy the spirits—and thus maintain balance in one’s personal life—but also a way to help others.
Camille Van Deputte
doaj   +1 more source

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