In Hinduism and Jainism, a jiva is the immortal essence of a living being, subject to maya. A jiva that is free of maya, i.e. is not tied to a body or earthly existence in any way, is called ãtmã. The Vedic concept of jiva is analogous, but by no means identical, to the concept of soul as presented in Abrahamic religions, and the Sanskrit word "jiva" is therefore best left untranslated. Jiva - Evolution of the jiva. The jiva is believed to evolve through many incarnations from ...

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Launched: ISS Expedition 1 crew: Yuri Gidzenko (2) Sergei Krikalev (5) William Shepherd (4) - U.S.A Landed: Talgat Musabayev (3) Yuri Baturin (2) Dennis Tito (1) - Tourist (U.S.A.) ...

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Beginning with Vedantic Hindu philosophy, the Ātman — Sanskrit (masculine nominative singular: Ātmā) is regarded as an underlying metaphysical self. It is first seen in its current Hindu usage in the Upanishads, some of which date back to 1000 BC. The word “Atman” (pronounced in Sanskrit like “Atma”) is interpreted by some schools as the “Main Essence” of man, as his Highest Self. “A” in this word is a negative particle. One popular, albeit apocryphal, etymology has it that the 'tma' of "atma" “Tma” mea ...

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The Brannock Device™ is a measuring instrument invented by Charles F. Brannock for computing a person's shoe size. The son of a shoe industry entrepreneur, Brannock spent two years developing a simple means of measuring the human foot. He eventually improved on the wooden RITZ Stick, the industry standard of the day, and patented his first prototype in 1926. Brannock later formed the Brannock Device Company to manufacturer and sell the product, and headed the company until 1992 when he died at age 89. Today the Brannock Device is an international standard of the footwear industry, and the Smithsonian Institution ...

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Aprepitant (brand name: Emend™) is a medication, that is used in the treatment of chemotherapy induced nausea / emesis. It is a neurokinin 1 receptor antagonist, that blocks the effect of substance P. It mediates its effect via neurokinin 1 receptor that is an endogenous receptor for substance P. This class of drugs are called substance P antagonists (SPA). Corporate Directors: Lawrence Bossidy | William Bowen | Richard Clark | Johnnetta Cole | William Harrison | William Kelley | Rochelle Lazarus | Thomas Shenk | Anne Tatlo ...

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The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America™ (UOJCA), more popularly known as the Orthodox Union, or OU, is one of the oldest Orthodox Jewish organizations in the United States. It is best known for its kosher supervision service, with the circled-U symbol found on the labels of many commercial and consumer food products. The OU supports a network of synagogues, youth programs, Jewish and Religious Zionist advocacy, programs for the disabled, localized religious study programs, and some inte ...

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TMS was designed as a brain mapping tool in the 1980s to be used combined with MRI and EEG. By stimulating different points of the cortex and recording responses, e.g., from muscles, one may obtain maps of functional brain areas. By measuring EEG, one may obtain information about the healthiness of the cortex (its reaction to TMS) and about area-to-area connections. One reason TMS is important in neuroscience is that it can demonstrate causality. A noninvasive mapping technique such as fMRI allows researchers to see what regions of th ...

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Transcranial magnetic stimulation, Transcranial magnetic stimulation - Introduction, Transcranial magnetic stimulation - TMS in research, Transcranial magnetic stimulation - How TMS works, Transcranial magnetic stimulation - Technical Information on TMS, Transcranial magnetic stimulation - TMS as therapy

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The exact details of how TMS functions are still being explored, but the MIT Technology Review listed some potential mechanisms: A doctor typically holds a powerful magnet over the frontal regions of the patient’s skull and delivers magnetic pulses for a few minutes a day, over the course of a few weeks. The treatment alters the biochemistry and firing patterns of neurons in the cortex, the part of the brain nearest the surface. Preliminary research indicates that the treatment affects gene activity, levels of neurotransmitters like ...

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The principal of inductive brain stimulation with eddy currents has been known since the 19th century. Commercially packaged TMS in today's form was developed in 1985 by an engineering group at the University of Sheffield, UK. Its earliest application was to demonstrate conduction of nerve impulses from the motor cortex to the spinal cord noninvasively. This had already been done with transcranial electrical stimulation a few years earlier, but use of this technique is limited by discomfort. By stimulating different points of the cortex and ...

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With regard to religion, Maharishi states that: Religion and meditation are both necessary -- "One without the other will not survive." Everyone should follow their own religion. At its beginning, every religion included transcendental meditation. Now that religions have forgotten the technique, they are "like bodies from which the soul has departed". Despite the fact that different practitioners of TM practice many of the world's different religions, and religious practitioners are encou ...

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Transcendental meditation, Transcendental meditation - History, Transcendental meditation - Effects of TM, Transcendental meditation - Procedures and theory, Transcendental meditation - Pure consciousness, Transcendental meditation - Stress, Transcendental meditation - Mantra, Transcendental meditation - TM and religion, Transcendental meditation - Criticisms and controversies, Transcendental meditation - Possible negative side effects, Transcendental meditation - TM-Sidhi Program and Maharishi Effect, Transcendental meditation - Publications on Maharishi's technologies, Transcendental meditation - Political activities of the TM organization, Transcendental meditation - Sexism and the TM organization, Transcendental meditation - Importance of Correct Buildings, Transcendental meditation - Notable practitioners, Transcendental meditation - Reference

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Some studies [6] indicate that regular practice of TM leads to significant, cumulative benefits in the areas of mind (Travis, Arenander & DuBois 2004), body (Barnes, Treiber & Davis 2001), behavior (Barnes, Bauza & Treiber 2003) and environment (Hagelin et al. 1999). Other studies suggest that TM has possible negative side effects, but in accordance with a review of more than 75 studies "none of the studies reviewed tried to disentangle the effects of meditation per se from the influence of the presen ...

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The voices of the TMS commentators have become part of the sound of an English summer, and there is a tradition of the commentators being referred to by nicknames (usually based on their surname, plus the syllable "-ers"). Past TMS commentators have included: Rex Alston John Arlott Alan Gibson Robert Hudson Brian Johnston (Johnners) Don Mosey EW Swanton Contemporary TMS commentators include: Jonathan Agnew (Aggers) Henry Blofeld (Blowers) Simo ...

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Test Match Special, Test Match Special - History of TMS, Test Match Special - TMS commentators, Test Match Special - Light-hearted style, Test Match Special - Cakes

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BBC Radio was the first broadcaster to cover every ball of a Test match in 1957. Live cricket had been broadcast since 1927, but it had been thought that Test match cricket was too slow for ball-by-ball commentary to work. TMS became a fixture on BBC Radio 3 on AM medium wave, and later moved to its present home on Radio 4 long wave (198 LW). With the advent of digital radio, TMS can also be heard on Five Live Sports Extra, which has the benefit of not being interrupted by the ...

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Test Match Special, Test Match Special - History of TMS, Test Match Special - TMS commentators, Test Match Special - Light-hearted style, Test Match Special - Cakes

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"WirelessUSB™" by Cypress Semiconductor is not related to IEEE's "Certified Wireless USB". Cypress's "WirelessUSB™" is a protocol that uses the 2.4 GHz ISM band with a range from 10 to 50 meters and is designed for Human Interface Devices (HIDs), with current offerings from companies such as Belkin, Logitech, and Virtual Ink. Other forms of Wireless USB such as those to be offered on the competing UWB technology based on Freescale pulse method are also not approved by the USB Sig or the IEEE. The same is also true for other ...

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Wireless USB, Wireless USB - Certified Wireless USB vs WirelessUSB™, Wireless USB - Competing Technologies

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The following is a summary of the main functions of a Translation Memory, as described on Design and function of translation memory. Translation memory - Off-line functions. This function is used to transfer a text and its translation from a text file to the TM. Import can be done from a raw format, in which an external source text is available for importing into a TM along with its translation. Sometimes the texts have to be reprocessed by the user. There is another format that can be used to import: the native format. This format ...

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Translation memory, Translation memory - Using Translation Memories, Translation memory - Main Benefits, Translation memory - Main Obstacles, Translation memory - Functions of a Translation Memory TM, Translation memory - Off-line functions, Translation memory - Online functions, Translation memory - Text Memory, Translation memory - History of Translation Memories, Translation memory - Recent trends, Translation memory - Translation Memory and Related Standards, Translation memory - TMX, Translation memory - TBX, Translation memory - SRX, Translation memory - GMX, Translation memory - OLIF, Translation memory - XLIFF, Translation memory - TransWS, Translation memory - xml:tm

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The International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology has developed the following description of TMS and rTMS: Technical developments in the devices used for TMS made it possible in the late 1980’s to apply TMS in trains of multiple stimuli per second. This form of TMS is called repetitive TMS or rTMS. In rTMS, stimuli are applied to the same brain area several times per second during several consecutive seconds. The number of stimuli per second, the strength of the stimuli, the duration of the train of stimulation, the interval ...

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Transcranial magnetic stimulation, Transcranial magnetic stimulation - Introduction, Transcranial magnetic stimulation - TMS in research, Transcranial magnetic stimulation - How TMS works, Transcranial magnetic stimulation - Technical Information on TMS, Transcranial magnetic stimulation - TMS as therapy

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Criticisms and controversies can be divided in different categories: possible negative side effects, TM-Sidhi Program and Maharishi Effect, political activities of the TM organization, sexism and the TM organization, and importance of correct buildings. Transcendental meditation - Possible negative side effects. Critics of TM refer to a paper that reviews 75 studies on various meditation techniques (of which TM was a part of this eclectic mix of techniques) [9]). The study found that 63% of meditators expe ...

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Transcendental meditation, Transcendental meditation - History, Transcendental meditation - Effects of TM, Transcendental meditation - Procedures and theory, Transcendental meditation - Pure consciousness, Transcendental meditation - Stress, Transcendental meditation - Mantra, Transcendental meditation - TM and religion, Transcendental meditation - Criticisms and controversies, Transcendental meditation - Possible negative side effects, Transcendental meditation - TM-Sidhi Program and Maharishi Effect, Transcendental meditation - Publications on Maharishi's technologies, Transcendental meditation - Political activities of the TM organization, Transcendental meditation - Sexism and the TM organization, Transcendental meditation - Importance of Correct Buildings, Transcendental meditation - Notable practitioners, Transcendental meditation - Reference

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Some of these individuals have died or are no longer practicing TM. ...

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In 1957, at the end of a big "festival of spiritual luminaries" in remembrance of the previous Shankaracharya of the North, Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, his disciple Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (or simply "Maharishi") inaugurated a "movement to spiritually regenerate the world". That was the formal beginning of the spread of TM throughout the world. In the movement's initial stages, Maharishi emphasised the religious aspects of TM and operated under the auspices of an organization he called the Spiritual Regeneration Movement. However, the ...

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Transcendental meditation, Transcendental meditation - History, Transcendental meditation - Effects of TM, Transcendental meditation - Procedures and theory, Transcendental meditation - Pure consciousness, Transcendental meditation - Stress, Transcendental meditation - Mantra, Transcendental meditation - TM and religion, Transcendental meditation - Criticisms and controversies, Transcendental meditation - Possible negative side effects, Transcendental meditation - TM-Sidhi Program and Maharishi Effect, Transcendental meditation - Publications on Maharishi's technologies, Transcendental meditation - Political activities of the TM organization, Transcendental meditation - Sexism and the TM organization, Transcendental meditation - Importance of Correct Buildings, Transcendental meditation - Notable practitioners, Transcendental meditation - Reference

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TM is practiced for fifteen to twenty minutes twice daily while sitting comfortably with the eyes closed. In essence, the TM technique comprises the silent mental repetition of a simple sound known as a mantra, allowing the repetition to spontaneously become quieter and quieter, until it disappears and one is left conscious, but without thoughts. This is the goal of the inward stroke of meditation and is called pure consciousness (in Sanskrit: turiya or samadhi similar to Abraham Maslow's concept of peak experience). Alongside ...

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Transcendental meditation, Transcendental meditation - History, Transcendental meditation - Effects of TM, Transcendental meditation - Procedures and theory, Transcendental meditation - Pure consciousness, Transcendental meditation - Stress, Transcendental meditation - Mantra, Transcendental meditation - TM and religion, Transcendental meditation - Criticisms and controversies, Transcendental meditation - Possible negative side effects, Transcendental meditation - TM-Sidhi Program and Maharishi Effect, Transcendental meditation - Publications on Maharishi's technologies, Transcendental meditation - Political activities of the TM organization, Transcendental meditation - Sexism and the TM organization, Transcendental meditation - Importance of Correct Buildings, Transcendental meditation - Notable practitioners, Transcendental meditation - Reference

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The Perkins Brailler is a simple, inexpensive machine used to write braille. The Perkins Brailler is a "braille typewriter" with a key corresponding to each of the six dots of the braille code. By simultaneously pressing different combinations of the six keys, users can create any of the characters in the braille code. In addition to these six keys, the Perkins Brailler has a space key, a backspace key, and a line space key. Like a manual typewritier, it has two side knobs to advance paper through the machine and a carriage return lever above the keys. The rollers that hold and advance the paper have grooves designe ...

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