International audience A person’s tendency to approach pleasant stimuli and to avoid unpleasant stimuli reflects a basic psychological phenomenon. The present research aimed to investigate the extent to which mindfulness practices and trait equanimity can attenuate this motivational process. In two...

The study’s objective was to know the private school of medicine interns resilience level according to the following dimensions: equanimity, personal satisfaction, feeling good alone, self-confidence and perseverance. Their professional assessment was also measured through their levels of in-depth i...

O objetivo deste artigo é contribuir para a viabilização da gestão sustentável dos recursos hídricos do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Trata-se de sistematizar algumas reflexões resultantes de cinco anos de participação e observações do processo de implementação da Política Estadual de Recursos Hídricos,...

The Interpersonal Circumplex Model forms the theoretical basis of the paper, which explains the behaviour of the individual in interpersonal relationships and the Big-Five Personality Model, which implies the existence of five basic dimensions of personality. The paper aimed at examining the predict...

The symbols contained in a vihara is intentionally used to remind the people to something that is believed, both cultural and spiritual values. This article aims to analyze the meaning and value of spiritual and cultural symbols in Vihara Lotus Surakarta. This is a qualitative research. This article...

The aim of this paper is to study the Roman Stoics’ ideas on the basic principles of the philosophy of human life in the context of their ethical paradigm. Research methodology. In this study the author uses such methodological approaches as historical, socio-cultural and system ones to analyze the...

In this article, the author discusses the subject of pro-peace education with the use of poetry, and its influence on the mental well-being of children. She indicates Julian Tuwim as one of the Polish trailblazers of the 20th-century trend of mindfulness, which instructs how to establish a harmoniou...

The mindfulness literature is now burgeoning and underlines various positive effects of mindfulness practice on mental health and well-being. Emotion regulation has been identified as a central capacity that develops through mindfulness practice, explaining the increase in positive emotions and the...

‘titrebSummary’/titrebThe modern times, that is to say our time, allow us to play and die virtually and then to restart and gamble and die again. The human being had never reached such a possibility before. To live in a very realistic way his own destruction or disappearance, his own death immediate...

Dear Jonathan Swift, Over the years I have often thought of writing to you. I do hope you’ll forgive me, though of course you won’t — you’re known more for your judgement than for mercy and not all for your equanimity, never mind for suffering fools gladly, so I fully expect a vicious tongue-lashing...

What is linguistic diversity? How can it be measured? Can the spreading of a lingua franca be expected to reduce it? And if so, does it matter? In an attempt to answer these questions, this paper first distinguishes the three dimensions of diversity - richness, evenness and distance - and describes...

Compared to standard assessment, alternative assessment as a performance-based attempt to evaluate students’ performance has been regarded to have considerable relevance for English Language Teaching (ELT, hereafter), yet all scholars have not received it with equanimity due to its limitations regar...

Abstract: This paper discusses the educational values of Kaizen culture in Japan. The research used to pose a main question of what educational values Kaizen management and culture has in common, based on the theory proposed by Richard T Kinner, Jerry L. Kernes, and Therese M. Dautheribes which dec...

Abstract The paper analyzes Divakaruni’s rewriting of the mythical story of Draupadi (from Sanskrit Mahbharata) in her The Palace of Illusions (2008), as well as her projection in the Indian popular rituals. It investigates Draupadi’s iconic status as a fierce feminist standing her ground even ag...

This article seeks, in necessarily limited ways, to shed light on a neglected area by exploring aspects of the dynamic behind civilian-driven violence in settler colonial situations globally. Although civilian-driven violence against indigenous peoples was both specific and congenital to frontier re...

International audience This paper focuses on how the design, aesthethics and atmosphere of a new hospital birth environment affects the experiences of new fathers. Based on a phenomenological study it shows how atmospheres are experienced in a new birthing room intended to stimulate the senses in a...

In this paper, we examine what the German works of Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1328) say about heaven, the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Heaven. We explain how he understands the presence of the Kingdom of God in us. In a style that is fresh and original, Eckhart says that the Kingdom of Heaven is...

On one level, Tom McCarthy’s 'C' comes out as a postmodern intertextual patchwork that borrows the form of the 'Bildungsroman'. Accordingly, the protagonist Serge travels from birth to death in a forthrightly chronological narrative, but that journey is accompanied by the fact that the text’s modern...

In 1969 Werner Heisenberg presented a paper at a symposium initiated by the Karajan Foundation in Salzburg. The theme of this symposium was the ‘significance of modern scientific knowledge—in medicine, physiology, and physics—for art, music, pedagogy and aesthetic practice.’ Heisenberg’s paper was t...

Os riscos psicossociais entre os trabalhadores de saúde têm sido alvo de pesquisas nacionais e internacionais. Os trabalhadores de terapia intensiva oncopediátrica lidam constantemente com situações-limite, tornando-os vulneráveis ao esgotamento emocional e a possíveis mecanismos de enfrentamento....