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Emerging Zoonoses and Its Management

January 27th, 2012

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Background:

In the past few years, emergent disease episodes have increased; nearly all have involved zoonotic or species-jumping infectious agents. Because there is no way to predict when or where the next important new zoonotic pathogen will emerge or what its ultimate importance might be, investigation at the first sign of emergence of a new zoonotic disease is particularly important. Such investigation may be described in terms of a discovery-to-control continuum: from recognition of a new disease in a new setting to complex phases involving the hard science disciplines pertaining to discovery, the epidemiologic sciences pertaining to risk assessment, and activities pertaining to risk management. Today, many activities involving zoonotic disease control are at risk because of a failed investigative infrastructure or financial base. Because zoonotic diseases are distinct, their prevention and control will require unique strategies, based more on fundamental research than on traditional approaches. Such strategies require that we rebuild a cadre of career-committed professionals with a holistic appreciation of several medical and biologic sciences

Predicting the Emergence of Zoonotic and Species-Jumping Pathogens

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What is Learning? Can We Learn Better Than Apes Do? – Part 1

January 26th, 2012

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We can all Learn-and transform our brain in the method. That’s the message in this Interview-Part 1 (out of 2) from Dr. James Zull, Professor of Biology and Biochemistry at Case Western University, Director of UCITE (The University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education), and Professor of a Human Studying and The Brain class. Dr. Zull loves to understand. And to teach. And to construct connections. He has spent years building bridges between neurobiology and pedagogy, as a result of which he wrote The Art of Changing the Brain: Enriching the Practice of Teaching by Exploring the Biology of Learning, which shows how neurobiological research can inform and refine some of the best ideas in educational theory.

In that book, Prof. Zull added biological information to David Kolb’s Understanding Cycle framework. David Kolb’s Experiential Studying: Experience as the Source of Studying and Development book refers to human studying, but Professor Zull tells that these days, in his desk, he has cognitive neuroscience papers and analysis that show that apes go through the exact same 4 stages when they are learning a new activity, activating precisely the identical brain areas than we do.

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ERROR IN HISTORY: GREECE IS NOT THE CRADLE OF PHILOSOPHY

January 25th, 2012

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1.. INTRODUCTION

According to Oxford Dictionary, history is “the study of past events.” It is crucial that the citizens of a country have understanding of the important past events that have taken location in the country. In the identical vein every student of philosophy is expected not only to have knowledge of the history of philosophy but a first class understanding of it, if he or she desires to turn out to be an outstanding philosopher. As a division of studies, the History of Philosophy tries to investigate the past of men in their rational venture. According to William Turner the History of Philosophy is “the exposition of philosophical opinions and of systems and schools of philosophy.” The History of Philosophy does not only deal with the positions, systems and schools of philosophy, but also gives considerations to the lives of philosophers, the common link of the systems and schools of thought, moreover, it also makes an effort to trace the route of philosophical progression and retrogression.

The general conception, even among professional philosophers, is that Greece is the cradle of philosophy. Consequently, virtually all the offered histories of philosophy, and philosophers themselves, agree that the so-called Pre-Socratics had been the very first or earliest philosophers, at least, in the Western world. Unlike the early thinkers of India and China, the Pre-Socratics did not feel exegetically out of ancient scriptures or poems, but they spoke “as disrespectfully of the greatest poets they did to every other.” The most excellent reason for this popular conception is that very first recognized philosophers in history lived among the Greeks. According to some authors in history of philosophy, the pre- Socratics had been Greeks. Indeed, no one has ever succeeded in writing a complete history of philosophy for philosophy like the works of arts, are intensely personal issues. Our aim is to attempt a justification on why Greece might not necessarily be the cradle of philosophy.

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