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As a counselor-at-law turns to the laws and statutes which define and explain the individual rights and duties pertaining to the case in hand, so the student of Christian Science, when seeking the solution of problem, turns to the Scriptures and the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, to find the applicable rules. In these textbooks, the divine Principle of the universe is expounded and spiritual reality revealed. When confronted by temptations of sin or sickness, the student applies his understanding of God's laws, knowing th...

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Jurisdiction is generally defined as the authority by which a court recognizes and decides cases.1 The regulations defining the many types of jurisdiction are established by state and federal constitutions and statutes respectively. These regulations set out what cases can be heard by what courts and which court is the best forum for a particular matter (e.g., family court, mental health court). Jurisdiction can be applied to one court (e.g., the state criminal court) or to the specific judicial system as a whole (e.g., the federal court system).2

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The term "jurisdiction" refers to a court's power to hear a case. The circumstances of an alleged crime determine which court is empowered to hear  it—for  example, a federal or state court. Jurisdiction can play a big part not only in procedure, but also in outcome.

The higher-order theory (HOT) of consciousness has often been misunderstood by critics. Here, we clarify its position on several issues, and distinguish it from other views, such as the global workspace theory (GWT) and early sensory models (e.g., first-order local recurrency theories). For example, …

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a looming epidemic, growing most rapidly in the elderly population. Some of the most devastating sequelae of TBI are related to depressed levels of consciousness (e.g., coma, minimally conscious state) or deficits in executive function. To date, pharmacological and re …

The role of the frontal cortex in consciousness remains a matter of debate. In this Perspective, we will critically review the clinical and neuroimaging evidence for the involvement of the front versus the back of the cortex in specifying conscious contents and discuss promising research avenues. …

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StoryNet is a large database of story-scripts and inference tools that can be used for case-based common-sense reasoning. Since people are by nature experts ...

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DARPA wants to know about how stories influence human behavior

Co-incidental with political upheaval in Egypt, DARPA’s trying to find out how narrative stories affect human thinking–with questions like “What role do stories play in influencing political violence and to what extent?”

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Co-incidental with political upheaval in Egypt, DARPA’s trying to find out how narrative stories affect human thinking–with questions like “What role do stories play in influencing political violence and to what extent?”

coondoggie writes "DARPA in a nutshell wants to know how stories or narratives influence human behavior. To this end, they are hosting a workshop called 'Stories, Neuroscience and Experimental Technologies (STORyNET): Analysis and Decomposition of Narratives in Security Contexts,' on Feb. 28th to d...

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Neuroendocrine tumours are a heterogeneous group including, for example, carcinoid, gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumours, pituitary tumours, medullary carcinoma of the thyroid and phaeochromocytomas. They have attracted much attention in recent years, both because they are relatively easy t …

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As oxygen is essential for many metabolic pathways, tumour hypoxia may impair cancer cell proliferation1-4. However, the limiting metabolites for proliferation under hypoxia and in tumours are unknown. Here, we assessed proliferation of a collection of cancer cells following inhibition of …