Longitudinal Utilization of Invasive Pain Treatment Procedures Among Veterans with Chronic Pain Following Use of Whole Health Services and Complementary and Integrative Health Ther... by Zeliadt SB, DeFaccio R, Carey EP, Etingen B, Rosser EW, Suri P, Chen JA, Bokhour BG, Coggeshall S

“…CIH therapies included chiropractic care, acupuncture, massage therapy, yoga, Tai Chi/Qigong, and meditation. Propensity score matching was used to estimate expected rates of invasive pain treatment procedures 0– 3, 4– 12, and 13– 18 months after initiating Whole Health or CIH-only compared to similar Veterans who had not engaged in either.Results: Overall, 14% of the population were female, 11% had received prior spine injections, 3.3% had received surgery, and 0.4% had an implantable spinal stimulator. …”
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Is intense exercise bad for your mind? Subjective, behavioral and physiological responses to a cognitive effort to failure by Darías Holgado, Ludovic Leubaz, Paolo Ruggeri, Guillermo Borragan, Antonio Luque-Casado, Tristan Bekinschtein, Daniel Sanabria, Nicolas Place

“…Drawing the experience dynamics of meditation. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.04.482237 …”
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“Restoration of the Past Scenery-Realm”: A Research on the Scenery-Realm Restoration of Jiang’s Fu Garden During Qing Dynasty in the Historical Revolution of the Humble Administrat... by Qian BIAN

“…In terms of realm experience, the research analyzes the generation of typical comprehensive experience and emotional activities in the garden from the perspectives of “Dong You Jian Jing Can” (roaming in motion and meditation in stillness) and “Ya Ji Yu Yuan Ju” (elegant gathering and garden dwelling), pointing out that the former, in short-term composite perceptions, is more likely to form differentiated results due to changes in mood, season, and combinations of dynamic and static appreciation, while the latter, through long-term interactive attachment and more nuanced examinations over time, can make the emotional sustenance of guests in the garden more genuine and varied. 2) In response to the question of what qualified the garden as a restoration of the past scenery-realm, the focus is on the “Yuanxiang Hall” area as a clue to explore the value orientation of the Fu Garden’s restoration. …”
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À la fin, tout i/y passe by Jean-Marie Privat

“…The focal point will first be the hand’s role in Flaubert’s scriptural handicraft, the scribe’s fleeting meditations on the language artifacts of his literature and the graphic meditations of the writer struggling with the arbitrariness of linguistic linearity. …”
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Creating smiles: a case study on the transformational power of dental CAD/CAM technology by Zeina Darwich, Atef Darwich, Marwan Al-Raeei, Chadi Azmeh

“…The study emphasizes the applications of CAD/CAM technology and showcases the state-of-the-art Medit i700 intraoral scanner for detailed dental impression scanning. …”
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The dental health and technology. Contributions and contradictions by Zhenia Véliz Águila, Virgina Pentón García, Bárbara Prado Lemus, Isabel Noriega Cabrera, Limaisi Brunet Herrera, Irma Sueiro Sánchez

“…Presently article is meditated on the narrow existent relationship between the terms information, technology and health in Stomatology and some contradictions that reveal the importance of understanding the techno-science, demonstrating the importance of this relationship as the basis and driving force which will result in the development related to health, which will help to improve every day functioning and quality of dental services.…”
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DIGITAL AND ESTHETIC APPROACHES TO THE ASSESSMENT OF GINGIVAL AND DENTAL PARAMETERS by Andra Ardelean, Roxana Buzatu, Otilia-Cornelia Bolos, Laura-Cristina Rusu, Anca Tudor, Marius Traian Leretter

“…Intraoral scans of the dental arches were performed using the Medit i700 scanner to obtain virtual 3D models. In the Medit Design application, measurements were taken of the distance between the zenith of the maxillary lateral incisor and the line connecting the zeniths of the maxillary central incisor and canine on the same hemi-arch, along with measurements of the width and height of the maxillary central incisor, calculating their proportions accordingly. …”
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LINEN SIEVES – THOUGHTS ON THE MARGIN OF ANGI ISTVÁN'S MUSICOLOGICAL WRITINGS (ANGI ISTVÁN: SITE DE IN, EDITURA MEDIA MUSICA, CLUJ-NAPOCA, 2014) by Attila FODOR

“…Both provocative and meditative, the title-metaphor invites the reader not only to explore the content of this book, but also to familiarize itself with the significant and original aesthetic view of the author, elaborated in a two-volume treatise, Lectures on Music Aesthetics (Oradea University Press, 2004.) …”
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O espaço dos possíveis, de Pierre Bourdieu by Maria Thereza Rosa Ribeiro

“…In the reference of participant objectification, the interface between phenomenology and “Pascalian meditations” is opposed to positivism and scientific rationalism.…”
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Dark Aesthete: Gothic Elements in the Fiction of Walter Pater by Geoffrey Johnston Sadock

“…Walter Pater is today celebrated for his imaginary portraits, ekphrastic meditations on landscape, paintings, and sculpture; for his aesthetic method and prose style. …”
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DEKARTIŠKASIS DIEVO ĮRODYMAS: PRIELAIDOS IR INTENCIJOS by Skirmantas Jankauskas

“…DESCARTES' PROOF FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD: PREMISES AND INTENTIONS Skirmantas Jankauskas  Summary The article deals with Descartes’ Meditations, where his proof for the existence of God is taken as the starting point of the analysis. …”
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“Virtuoso[S] Of Departure” by Sarah Bouttier

“…This paper reads three poems on absence in the light of current theories of the object, hoping to clarify various trends in contemporary poetry’s relation to absence. The three poems, “Meditations at Lagunitas” by Robert Hass (1979), “Silverfish, Moth” by Matthew Francis (2014), and “Pipistrelles” by Kathleen Jamie (2004) are extremely different in the functions and connotations they ascribe to absence. …”
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Imagining Oneself as Forming a Whole with Others: Descartes’s View of Love by Melanie Tate

“…Several commentators assume joining in volition is an act of judgment, since forming judgments is the primary function of the will in the Meditations. However, I argue joining in volition is an act of imagining a whole one forms with an object of love. …”
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Les Diggers : une expérience singulière au cœur d’une décennie contestataire by Frank Noulin

“…Le free movement : une utopie à méditer, quand nos sociétés en proie aux tentations autoritaires s’adonnent à la marchandisation de tout et de tous.…”
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Contemplation and liturgy: The experience of St. Mary Magdalene De’ Pazzi (Florence, 1566-1607) by M. O'Neill

“…In the experience of the Italian mystic, the Word that was proclaimed in the Liturgy, particularly in the Eucharist, captured her whole attention, in mind and heart, when meditated upon when she had received Holy Communion. …”
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Bartleby à Belleville, ou quand les Malaussène invitent Isaac Sidel : le crossover fraternel de Daniel Pennac (Des chrétiens et des Maures) et Jerome Charyn (Appelez-moi Malaussène... by Sophie Vallas

“…"Bartleby the Scrivener" is the intertext that both authors draw on in order to twin their respective sagas : Melville’s tale allows them to weave their long-standing meditations on the issues of originality, identity, name, noire paternity and fictional fraternity.…”
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Time-Images in Don DeLillo’s Writing: A Reading of The Body Artist, Point Omega and Zero K by Andrea Pitozzi

“…This article focuses on the most recent writings of Don DeLillo, and in particular it analyzes three of DeLillo’s later works, namely The Body Artist, Point Omega and Zero K, as examples of a more meditative and reflective attitude towards the themes of time and image in his recent production. …”
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The Discernment of the Deceits of the Devil in angelum lucis according to St. Ignatius of Loyola and St. John of the Cross by Juan Manuel Rossi

“…Ignatius of Loyola, in his Spiritual Exercises, gives fundamental Rules in this regard, and in other meditations helps to understand the need to clarify the thought and rectify the intention. …”
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Biblical spirituality: an "other" reading (allègoria) by Kees Waaijman

“…The transition from an awareness of differences in respect of contents to dialogical non-indifference is crucial for Biblical Spirituality, because it marks the progression from a “meditative” way of reading, which is directed towards content (literary history), to an “orative” or prayerful way of reading, which is concerned with the God-human process of transformation. …”
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« Petits poèmes en prose » : la forme poétique dans Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Isabelle Gadoin

“…Alongside with awkward passages when the narrator launches into abstract meditations against morals, society or fate, other moments can be found in his novels when the author briefly seems to forsake any concern for realistic description, and to suggest instead enchanted instants of communion between his characters and the world of nature, which transfigure the whole of perception. …”
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