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Rubinstein, J. E. "Healing spirits, healing hands : An anthropological inquiry into English spiritualist healing." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.383869.
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Degnen, Cathrine. "Healing Sheshatshit, Innu identity and community healing." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape16/PQDD_0001/MQ29539.pdf.
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Degnen, Cathrine. "Healing Sheshatshit : Innu identity and community healing." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26731.
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Community healing is an issue of great importance today in many Native communities across Canada, and yet the concept goes largely undiscussed by medical anthropologists who have instead traditionally focused on the 'ethnomedicine' and poor health conditions of these communities. For Innu of Sheshatshit, Labrador, community healing involves much more than mending physical aliments. Healing signifies a move towards new social meaning and coherence and is a forum for negotiating Innu identity. This thesis attempts to redress this gap in the literature by describing the deeply nuanced meanings community healing takes on in community discourse and its implications for contemporary Innu identity. Additionally, this account explores the significance of nostalgia for the past and of country space in community discourse as it relates to community healing.
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Al-Mansoori, Tariq Hussein Abees. "Encapsulated healing agents for asphalt self-healing." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51801/.
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Service life of asphalt roads could be extended by enhancing the natural self-healing ability of asphalt mixtures with encapsulated rejuvenators. When crack damage appears, the capsules release healing agents, which dissolve bitumen to flow into cracks. In this research, a new type of capsules was developed. These capsules contain sunflower oil as a rejuvenating agent. The size, morphology, mechanical strength and thermal stability of these capsules were investigated. The composition of the capsules, which nominally divides these capsules into different types based on their oil content, epoxy-cement shell and polymer amount, and its effect on capsule characteristics were also studied. In addition, the effect of the capsules on the chemical composition of bitumen with time of exposure to broken capsules was evaluated by the FTIR test. Results show that the characteristics of the capsules and their effect on chemical composition allow them to be incorporated in asphalt mixtures for further investigations for their effect on asphalt mechanical performance and self-healing. The mechanical performance of aged asphalt mixtures is investigated by using three nominally different types of capsules. Two of these were protected with a hard shell made of epoxy-cement composite; two coats with 1.0 o/w (oil-to-water), three coats with 1.0 o/w and without the hard shell with 0.5 o/w. The optimum amount of capsules used in all mixtures was 0.5% of total mass of asphalt mixture. Tests started by investigating the effect of mixing and compaction processes on these capsules. Results show that the hard shell (epoxy-cement) was not necessary for the capsules to survive mixing and compaction processes. Capsules deformed and broke with cyclic loading, releasing oil that diffused in the bitumen in less than 24h. Healing of cracks in aged asphalt mixtures led to an increase of stiffness under cyclic loading. However, asphalt specimens with capsules had lower deformation resistance. Computer tomography scanning of specimens showed large reductions in cracks around the capsules, after resting 4 days (96h) at 20oC. The mechanical properties of asphalt mixture containing capsules have been evaluated. Including water sensitivity, particle loss, stiffness and permanent deformation. One type of capsule (0.1 o/w) with three different capsule contents by mass of asphalt mixture were used, 0.1%, 0.25% and 0.5% with oil-to-bitumen ratio 1.1, 2.8 and 5.5, respectively. Capsules were strongly bonded to the asphalt mixture and results showed improved or at least similar mechanical properties to that of asphalt mixtures without capsules. This shows that capsules for asphalt self-healing can be safely used in the road, without affecting its quality. Asphalt containing capsules had slightly lower stiffness (no rest period), which can be easily solved by reducing the size of the capsules in the future. Furthermore, a new method for testing asphalt self-healing by the action of capsules was designed and tested. This method was based on a 3-point bending test (3PB) to beak samples and measure their flexural strength. The test was implemented by comparing the strength recovery of the broken beams after healing to their original flexural strength. The test was first applied to asphalt mastic beams, which are asphalt mixtures with higher bitumen content and fine aggregate and filler. Five different types of capsules used, based on their o/w ratios. These were 0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 0.5 and 1.0 o/w ratios with different amounts depending on their oil content so that they can provide a 7.2% of rejuvenator (sunflower oil) to the asphalt mastic beams. The effect of capsule content on self-healing was investigated by the 3PB on samples containing all those five capsule types (different contents) at one healing temperature, namely 20oC and different healing times. Effect of temperature on healing was investigated as well by 3PB test applied to mastic beams containing one type of capsules with 0.5 o/w ratio at four different temperatures, namely 5oC, 10oC, 15oC and 20oC. The main results showed that the capsules can break inside the asphalt mastic releasing the encapsulated oil to bitumen. Healing levels in the asphalt mastic samples with capsules were greater than samples without capsules, and the healing level of asphalt samples with, and without, capsules increased with the healing time. Additionally, the healing level given by the capsules inside the cracked asphalt mastic depended on the oil/water content of the capsule and on the temperature at which the healing process occurs. Finally, a correlation factor was developed between the healing level of asphalt mastic with and without capsules, independent of the temperature and time evaluated. Self-healing of real asphalt mixture was also investigated by same method of 3PB at different healing times and different temperatures. One type of capsules, namely 0.1 o/w with three different capsule contents, 0.10%, 0.25% and 0.50% by total weight of the mixture, were mixed with the asphalt. Eight different healing temperatures were used in this test, namely -5oC, 5oC, 10oC, 15oC, 20oC, 30oC, 40oC and 50oC. It was proven that the capsules can resist the mixing and compaction processes and break inside the asphalt mixture as a result of applying external mechanical loads, releasing the encapsulated oil. The capsules content in asphalt mixture has a significant influence on the healing level, where a higher capsule content led to higher healing levels. It was found that cracked asphalt mixture with capsules recovered 52.9% of initial strength at 20oC versus 14.0% of asphalt mixture without capsules. Likewise, asphalt with, and without, capsules presents an increase of the healing level when the temperature increases. Finally, it was proved that healing temperature over 40oC has significant influence on the healing levels of the asphalt beams.
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Zentgraf, Megan Nicole. "Cultural healing." Thesis, Montana State University, 2008. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2008/zentgraf/ZentgrafM1208.pdf.
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"Since the stone age man has searched for a comfortable house in a safe place." Alfred Caldwell A residence should be a place where one feels safe, and should want to go at the end of the day. People living in low-income situations have a more difficult time than most at achieving peace of mind in a home due to a constant concern of bills and the stresses of an unstable socio-cultural environment. Low income housing projects frequently create high crime, violence, and a feeling of social, cultural and economic entrapment. This project searches for a solution to these problems through the use of pragmatism. The project will combine a mix of rent supplemented and market rate housing. This approach can create a safe socio-cultural environment. The project will be a place where underprivileged people can live without the inherent qualities of isolation and neglect.
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Jefferis, Lorna. "Healing presence." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ37407.pdf.
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Luteran, Paula. "Healing leaves." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/7071.
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Master of Arts<br>Department of Modern Languages<br>Robert L. Clark<br>Medieval French literature provides the modern researcher with references to the healing arts in many passages that are incorporated into prose or poetic works. Because there was no clear separation of the genres into modern classifications, references to treatment of sicknesses of body, mind or spirit are woven into many literary works, providing us with a kind of snapshot of the state of the art healing practices of the day. Texts make reference to herbs and plants used to cure the ailments of the body, gardens and flowers that refresh the spirit, miraculous unguents, cures through the intercession of the saints and the Virgin Mary and surgical procedures. Texts examined here include Le Roman de la Rose, Erec et Enide, Aucassin et Nicolette, Les Lais of Marie de France, Le conte du Graal, Le chevalier de la charrette, La Condamnation de Banquet, Yvain, Cligès, La Chanson de Roland and Treize Miracles de Notre-Dame. The picture they provide of the medicine of the time has a certain charm and quaintness that many moderns seek in holistic treatments of today which hearken back to this more rustic medicine.
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Rae, Steven Inglis. "Novel self-healing systems : expanding and inhibited healing agents." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.702144.
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The concept of self-healing materials has emerged from the reticence that exists in composite design, especially in aerospace structures. This concern emanates from composite materials' poor interlaminar properties and therefore tendency to perform badly when subject to impact events, typically manifesting as matrix cracking, delamination, and fibre debonding. With even microscopic damage having the potential to grow under fatigue loading until the structure's mechanical properties are diminished, composite structures are manufactured with high built in safety factors and structural redundancy to counteract inevitable defect creation. By developing self-healing materials, these defects can be addressed before (or after) they are allowed to grow, thus reducing the requirement for structural redundancy and capitalise on the mass savings that result. The chemistry behind healing mechanisms, and. methods of incorporating healing functionality itself, has been intensely researched by many groups in recent years. Whilst impressive results have been observed, and respecting the advancements that have been achieved, there still exist challenges which need to be addressed to allow for effective and fully autonomous self-healing systems. Many studies report thermal activation of polymerisation reactions, pre-mixing of healing agents, manual closing of crack planes to increase the relative volume of healing agent, or artificial opening of crack planes to increase infiltration and alleviate tensile stresses on the healing agent. Fundamentally however, achieving high healing efficiencies relies on delivering an adequate volume of healing agent(s) in a stoichiometric ratio and achieve effective mixing, or relies on exposing embedded catalyst to initiate and sustain polymerisation. We aim to address some of these challenges and reduce the dependency on external stimulus to increase healing efficiency in an autonomous manner through two different approaches. Firstly, the problems associated with incorporation of catalyst into the matrix, achieving stoichiometric ratios, and effective mixing, can be addressed using a single part healing chemistry that requires no additional stimulus or catalyst after release to polymerise. We have therefore investigated a potential route to 'inhibited healing' whereby a resin is actively prevented from undergoing polymerisation until released from the delivery vessel, whereupon polymerisation occurs rapidly and autonomously., Secondly, problems associated with mixing, reducing fibre disruption from vascule incorporation, delivering adequate volume from smaller reserves, achieving high proportions of infiltration, or to address larger damage voids and bridge wider separations, can be achieved by creation of volume in the healing agent , itself. We have investigated different chemical systems to produce a structural polymer with a volume greater than the sum of its constituent parts, explored methods of tailoring its chemical and structural properties, and assessed its ability to repair not only the relatively small volumes associated with damage within laminate structures, but also the larger damage volumes associated with impacted sandwich structures.
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Root, Sheryl. "The healing touch : spiritual healing in England, c.1870-1955." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2005. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1196/.
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This thesis provides a comprehensive analysis of spiritual healing in England in its various different guises during the late-nineteenth and early- to mid-twentieth centuries. It considers the interplay between the various spiritual healing groups themselves and between their philosophies and practices and orthodox medical theory more generally. The first half examines how spiritual healing was conceptualised by those who practised it - who spiritual healers were, what they believed and how they defined illness and healing. The specific therapeutic techniques used by healers are delineated, and the themes of touch and morality explored in detail. The second half of this thesis then examines how spiritual healing was perceived by the religious and medical establishments, and explores their co-operational discourse. Firstly, the reaction of the orthodox Christian churches to spiritual healing and their fractured and inherently conservative attempts to utilise it as a means of revitalising orthodox Christianity are analysed. The final chapters then chart the chronological relationship between spiritual healing and orthodox medicine during three specific periods, and explore the way in which spiritual healing intersected and impacted upon medical reactions to the new psychology of the twentieth century.
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Cowley, Melanny. "The healing cane." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2010. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1476288.
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Anderson, John Moyle Jr. "Color and healing." Thesis, Montana State University, 2010. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2010/anderson/AndersonJ0510.pdf.
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) affects approximately 20-30% of Veterans. It can be very mild with little effect on the person to debilitating depression and suicide. Some of the symptoms Veterans with PTSD may experience are: depression, flashbacks, inability to sleep, re-experiencing the event, recurring dreams of the event, and many others. In the United States we have an opportunity to give back those who have served the US with honor. We have the ability to create spaces and environments to help heal our returning Veterans who are afflicted with PTSD. By utilizing individual colors and interaction of colors we can create healing spaces to help Veterans reintegrate into society. Vet Centers' primary mission is the treatment of Veterans with PTSD and sexual truma. Currently there is not a Vet Center located in the Gallatin Valley area for treatment of Veterans living here. Color is performative. Color will react to the environment in which it is placed. The ways in which color will react are many; including how natural light interacts with color, how color interacts with artificial light, how color reacts with reflectivity of materials of the built environment, the placement of the colors in a built environment as well as the attributes of the colors themselves.
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Farrelly, Jane, University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and School of Contemporary Arts. "Dance and healing." THESIS_CAESS_CAR_Farrelly_J.xml, 2003. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/804.
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Dance consciously or unconsciously can by its very creative process from idea or feeling through to performance work and beyond, form a catalyst for healing. This paper provides a written record of a practical, phenomenological, qualitative, dance and healing research project. The researcher’s ideas coalesce from three schools of thought. They are health sciences, dance art and faith. Body sciences and homeopathic theory inform the practice of exploratory contemporary dance improvisation. Wholistic and ethical methods of research practice are applied to the study of a range of dance and health concerns<br>Master of Arts (Hons) (Contemporary Arts)
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Burd, David Andrew Ross. "Towards scarless healing." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.241535.
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Clinical and experimental observations of foetal wound healing have led to a reappraisal of dermal wound repair. Because of the major contribution of collagen to scar tissue, the presence and role of collagen in scarless healing in foetal animal models has been a source of some controversy. The experimental work described in this thesis clearly establishes that foetal animals are able to deposit abundant collagen in traditional wound healing models. The emphasis of speculation subsequently shifted to consider the role of other matrix elements, particularly hyaluronan, which has particularly high levels in foetal wounds. Some investigators have proposed that the more 'fluid' nature of the matrix facilitates the remodelling of the deposited collagen. Experimental evidence presented in this thesis suggests, however, that while the physico-chemical properties of hyaluronan are important in influencing cell and matrix interactions, more specific and controllable interactions may be due to the action of proteins associated with the hyaluronan.
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Sandberg, Olof. "Metaphyseal Fracture Healing." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Avdelningen för kliniska vetenskaper, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-126148.
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Most of what is known about fracture healing comes from studies of shaft fractures in long bones. In contrast, patients more often have fractures closer to the ends (metaphyses). Here most bone tissue has a spongy, cancellous structure different from the compact bone of the shaft. There is an increasing awareness that metaphyseal fractures heal differently. However, the more easily studied shaft healing has usually been considered as good enough representative for fracture healing in general. My work shows that the biology of metaphyseal healing is more different from shaft healing than was previously known and that this has implications on the effect of various commonly prescribed drugs. First we studied biopsies of healing cancellous bone collected from human donors. We found that the most abundant new bone formation occurred freely in the marrow rather than on the surface of old trabeculae, as described in most literature. There was little cartilage, indicating that the dominant bone formation process is mostly membranous in nature. This is a contrast to the ample cartilage formation commonly found in the well-characterized shaft fracture models. Next we characterized a model that allows for mechanical quantification of regenerating cancellous bone. By contrasting this cancellous healing model with the standard shaft healing model we could demonstrate that the NSAID indomethacin, the glucocorticoid dexamethasone, and the bisphosphonate alendronate all had different effects on the mechanical quality of bone regeneration in shaft and metaphysis; while anti-inflammatory drugs strongly impaired shaft healing, metaphyseal healing was not similarly affected. Alendronate had a positive effect on both models, though the effect was strongest in the metaphyseal model. Taken together these differences shed some light as to the differences in healing biology. The last step (within the boundaries of this thesis) was a characterization of how healing in cortical and cancellous bone differs in terms of immune cell involvement. We could find little difference between the two bone types day 3. However, day 5 an increase in the number of granulocytes could be noted in the cancellous bone while the cortical bone had a higher number of lymphocytes. To conclude, this work furthers our understanding of how metaphyseal healing differs from shaft healing. It has clinical implications as it motivates an increased attention to the site of fracture while contemplating treatment. I hope this thesis can be read as an argument for increased interest in metaphyseal fracture healing.
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Farrelly, Jane. "Dance and healing." Thesis, View thesis, 2003. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/804.
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Dance consciously or unconsciously can by its very creative process from idea or feeling through to performance work and beyond, form a catalyst for healing. This paper provides a written record of a practical, phenomenological, qualitative, dance and healing research project. The researcher’s ideas coalesce from three schools of thought. They are health sciences, dance art and faith. Body sciences and homeopathic theory inform the practice of exploratory contemporary dance improvisation. Wholistic and ethical methods of research practice are applied to the study of a range of dance and health concerns
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Farrelly, Jane. "Dance and healing /." View thesis, 2003. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20060509.115337/index.html.
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Thesis (M. A.) (Hons) -- University of Western Sydney, 2003.<br>A thesis submitted in part fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (Hons) (Contemporary Arts) at University of Western Sydney. Includes bibliographical references and appendices.
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Rajczakowska, Magdalena. "Self-Healing Concrete." Licentiate thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Byggkonstruktion och brand, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-76527.
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Concrete is a brittle material prone to cracking due to its low tensile strength. Crack repairs are not only expensive and time-consuming but also increase the carbon footprint. Designing a novel concrete material possessing the ability to self-repair cracks would enhance its sustainability. Self-healing can be defined as a material’s ability to repair inner damage without any external intervention. In the case of concrete, the process can be autogenous, based on an optimized mix composition, or autonomous, when additional capsules containing some healing agent and/or bacteria spores are incorporated into the binder matrix. The first process uses unhydrated cement particles as the healing material while the other utilizes a synthetic material or bacteria precipitating calcite which are released into the crack from a broken capsule or activated by access to water and oxygen. The main disadvantages of the autonomous method are the loss of the fresh concrete workability, worsened mechanical properties, low efficiency, low survivability of the capsules and bacteria during mixing and the very high price. On the other hand, the autogenous self-healing was found to be more efficient, more cost effective, safer, and easier to implement in full-scale applications. Knowledge related to mechanisms and key factors controlling the autogenous self-healing is rather limited. Therefore, the aim of this research work was to better understand the autogenous self-healing process of concrete and to optimize the mix design and exposure conditions to maximize its efficiency. This licentiate thesis summarizes the main findings of the first 2.5 years of the PhD project. Several factors affecting autogenous self-healing were studied, including the amount of unhydrated cement, mix composition, age of material, self-healing duration and exposure conditions. The process was investigated both externally, at the surface, and deeper inside of the crack, by evaluating the crack closure and chemical composition of formed self-healing products. In addition, the flexural strength recovery was also studied. It was observed that a large amount of cement in the concrete mix does not ensure an efficient autogenous self-healing of cracks. A very dense and impermeable binder microstructure limited the transport of calcium and silicone ions to the crack and diminished the precipitation of the healing products. Addition fly ash increased the crack closure ratio close to the crack mouth, but its presence did not support the recovery of the flexural strength, presumably due to a very limited formation of load bearing phases inside the crack. Calcium carbonate was detected mainly at the crack mouth, whereas calcium silicate hydrate (C-S-H) and ettringite were found deeper inside the crack. The formation of C-S-H and ettringite presumably resulted in a regain of the flexural strength. On the other hand, calcite crystals formed close to the surface of the specimen controlled conditions inside the crack through its external closure. Healing exposure based on pure water appeared to be inefficient even despite the application of different temperature cycles and water volumes. The application of a phosphate-based retarding admixture in the curing water resulted in the highest self-healing efficiency. The admixture presumably inhibited the formation of a dense hydration shell on the surface of the unhydrated cement grains and promoted the precipitation of calcium phosphate compounds inside the crack. In addition, water mixed with microsilica particles caused a regain of the flexural strength through formation of C-S-H in the crack.
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Pohran, Nadya. "Charismatic Healing: A Phenomenological Study of Spiritual Healing in Ottawa, Canada." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32612.
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Spiritual healing is a ubiquitous and fundamental part of Charismatic Christianity; it is indelibly linked to understandings of God, society, and individual identity. And yet, the phenomenon of spiritual healing—particularly its expression within North American, Abrahamic traditions—has been understudied within academia. In this thesis, I take a phenomenological approach in order to better comprehend the meaning-making process behind spiritual healing rituals amongst Charismatic Protestant Christians in Ottawa, Canada. Through a small-scale, local ethnographic study in Ottawa in which I conducted participant observation and several in-depth interviews, I explore Charismatic Christianity through the lens of lived religion. Based on a series of focused case studies, I conclude that the Charismatic cosmological worldview (one in which cosmic-wide restoration is emphasised) correlates with, and contributes to, the Charismatic emphasis on individual healing.
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Ankersen, Imke Kristin. "Community healing in BonteLanga : a space for social healing and reconciliation." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19087.
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The South Africa of today remains a largely divided society in which people of racialised groups often still regard one another with suspicion. This is not only a case of black and white since racially inflected attitudes and perceptions are just as rife amongst segments of the coloured and black community. This holds particularly true where resources are as scarce as in the townships of Cape Town's Cape Flats. The 'Community Healing Project' facilitated by the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) uses dialogue and debate as main tools in a community-level reconciliation project between Langa, a black African township, and Bonteheuwel, a coloured township. Using the IJR's intetTention as a case study, this thesis deals with community dialogue as a means of correcting misconceptions and promoting attitudinal change. The aim of the study is to assess the impact of the intervention on some participants and its importance for the prevention of future conflict. The thesis draws on various disciplines to provide a theoretical framework for community dialogue interventions. Participant observation, indepth interviews as well as a critical discourse analysis of two IJR publications are then employed to identify and discuss some of the practical challenges as experienced in the implementation of the project. The analysis of the semi-structured in-depth interviews is centred on four distinct but closely interconnected themes. The analysis of the data suggests that despite some frustrations the community intervention has impacted significantly on participants' lives and the relations between the two communities and the IJR's approach proves meaningful for the participants.
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Reimer, Andy. "Divine healing rites in the New Testament diversity and unity /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.
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Perelini, Otele Sili. "A comparison of Jesus' healing with healing in traditional and Christian Samoa." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/27184.
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The thesis compares the healing miracles of Jesus with the healing practices of traditional and Christian Samoa. Jesus' healings can be appreciated more within a healing environment like that of the gospels. The Samoan healing perspectives present an interesting and challenging framework in which one may recapture the significance the healing miracles served for the evangelists and also for those whom Jesus healed. Jesus' healing emphasized the holistic cure of the sick person rather than simply the physical remedy of the body. The comparison of Samoan and Jesus' healing motifs helps re-enforce the holistic healing, which includes not only physical cure but other significant healing dimensions as well. Chapter one deals with Samoa, highlighting the traditional and Christian world-views within which healing may be understood. Peoples' concept of health and sickness is associated with their view of the world. The social and religious realities influence people's concepts of causality and remedy of illness. Within the framework of these world-views, Samoan healing is understood. Chapter two is a comparison of the world-view of first century Judaism with the Samoan, in relation to evil spirits and demons and the Samoan spirits and deities. Even though both spirit-worlds were influential in the causality of illness and possessions, the nature of the spirits are not always the same. The Jewish view of spirits is dualistic whereas the traditional Samoan spirit-world tends to be complementary. Despite these differences, there is a common ground by which one may understand both systems. Chapter three compares exorcisms in the gospels with <i>aitu</i> (spirit) possessions in Samoa. Both reveal similarities not only in the nature of the phenomenon, but also its significance.
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Wang, Xufeng Materials Science & Engineering Faculty of Science UNSW. "Application of single-part adhesives as healing agent in self-healing composites." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Materials Science and Engineering, 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/32233.
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The aim of this study was to develop a new single-part healing system for self-healing composites. The self-healing approach to composite repair has been developed in the last two decades and means that a damaged area can be repaired by material already housed within the structure. The background and development of self-healing has been reviewed. The two main self-healing mechanisms are discussed. To date only two part self healing systems have been examined. These require diffusion of the separate constituents to a single location in order to effect cure and restore strength. Single part adhesives do not have this disadvantage and are therefore very attractive. Several candidate single-part adhesive or resin systems were considered and discussed according to the critical requirements of a self-healing system. A series of experiments was undertaken to evaluate the possibility of candidate adhesive systems being effective for self-healing by focusing on the determination of storage stability and bonding efficiency. The results of storage stability testing showed that the stability of cyanoacrylate and polyurethane adhesives was poor. However silane and polystyrene cements showed good storage stability. Very low bonding efficiency was achieved with polystyrene cement but a 22% strength recovery was obtained with the silane 3-[tris(trimethylsiloxy)silyl]-propylamine. Suggestions for further research into single-part healing systems are also given.
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Satzger, Benjamin. "Self-healing distributed systems." kostenfrei kostenfrei, 2008. http://d-nb.info/993914381/34.
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Blomgran, Parmis. "Inflammation and tendon healing." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Avdelningen för Kirurgi, Ortopedi och Onkologi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-142349.
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Tendons heal through three different overlapping phases; the inflammatory, proliferative and remodeling phase. Many studies have investigated what factors influence healing of tendons. However, little was known about inflammation and the immune cells present during Achilles tendon healing by the time this thesis started. We developed a flow cytometry method for our rat model of tendon healing, which enabled us to study different leukocyte subpopulations during Achilles tendon healing. The general aim of this thesis was to understand more about inflammation and the immune cell populations present during tendon healing and how the immune cell composition changes during normal tendon healing. Moreover, we investigated how different factors that are known to influence tendon healing affected the composition of the immune cell population. First, we described the immune cells during the time course of tendon healing focusing on different subpopulations of macrophages and T cells. Then, we studied how these cells were influenced by reduced mechanical loading. Mechanical loading prolonged the presence of M1 macrophages and delayed the switch to regulatory T cells and M2 macrophages compared to reduced mechanical loading. Next, the effect of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) on the leukocyte composition revealed that, even though NSAIDs influence the mechanical properties of healing tendon, this effect was not mediated via changes in the leukocyte sub-populations during early and mid-time tendon healing. Further, the effect of corticosteroids during the inflammatory and remodeling phases of tendon healing was an improved healing of tendons and a reduction of CD8a T cells when corticosteroid was administered after the inflammatory phase. Lastly, we investigated if impairment of tendon healing by NSAIDs was related to mechanotransduction or microdamage during mechanical loading and showed that NSAIDs impair tendon healing by reducing the response to microdamage. In conclusion, these studies show that inflammation plays an important role during Achilles tendon healing, and factors that influence healing can also alter the presence or polarization of immune cell populations.
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Walter, Passafaro Irene M. "A place for healing." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0002/MQ42308.pdf.
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Pardue, Emily Annette. "The healing of dance." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.
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Stevenson, Jean. ""The circle of healing"." School of Native Human Services, 1999. http://142.51.24.159/dspace/handle/10219/456.
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Many Aboriginal communities and urban Aboriginal people in the field of social services are utilizing Healing Circles. Talking Circles or Sharing Circles as a way of providing group support for people who are dealing with issues such as addictions, violence, grief, and trauma. The Native Council of Canada's 1993 report affirms that "traditional Healing Circles are being used with increasing frequency in urban Aboriginal communities" (p. 1).
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Errington, Rachel J. "In vitro wound healing." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.357419.
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Kamma, Christina-Stamatia. "Healing of LASIK flaps." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2007. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/54605/.
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The aim of this study was to obtain a better understanding in the healing of LASIK-like flaps using an in vitro organ culture method in bovine corneas. At early stages of the PhD, during protocol optimisation, a 5mm trephine was used to injure bovine corneas. At later stages a custom-made eye holder was used to induce LASIK-like incisions in corneas. Immunohistochemistry for a-smooth muscle actin (aSMA) and cytokeratin was used to monitor myofibroblast and epithelial cell expression, respectively, during the wound healing process. Additionally, the effect of certain cytokines (i.e. TNFa, Fas ligand, TGF-Pi and IL-la) was tested in terms of corneal transparency, myofibroblast expression and tissue mechanical strength during the healing process. The later series of experiments was an attempt to manipulate and improve wound healing after LASIK. Healing in this in vitro system closely followed the effects that are already known from the literature. In addition, preliminary evidence on the cytokine corneas proved that there is a correlation between cytokine type and concentration with the effect in tissue transparency, extend of wound healing response and tissue mechanical strength. X-ray diffraction also provided important information about collagen ultrastructural changes in the corneas during the healing process. Parameters such as fibrillar diameter, spacing, distribution and orientation were studied. Collagen fibrillar diameter and spacing remained constant for control corneas during the organ culture time-span, indicating that this in vitro system does not induce any swelling effects on the tissue. However, injured corneas became significantly swollen (p<0.05) during culture. Swelling effects were more severe in trephined corneas than in LASIK-like injured ones. However, collagen fibrillar diameter remained normal in the periphery of injured corneas, but it increased significantly in areas within and around the wound in trephined samples and in the flap incision site for LASIK-like ones. In both types of wounding, collagen orientation changes were observed and were associated with the process of creating the injury. However, in the case of trephine wounded corneas, tissue swelling and changes in collagen orientation reflected the processes of tissue repair. These differences will determine corneal stability and strength follow trauma and, possibly, refractive surgery. The transparency of the cornea depends on both the collagen and the interstitial proteoglycans. In order to obtain a better insight in ultrastructural changes during the wound healing process molecular modelling techniques were used in order to construct a theoretical model for the core protein of biglycan. This molecule is a dermatan sulphate proteoglycan and its numbers increase up to seven times during wound healing. It is considerably larger than the rest of proteoglycans and molecular modelling also revealed numerous potential collagen interaction sites.
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Isaacs, Ben. "Self-healing cementitious materials." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2011. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/54220/.
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A general conclusion from the work is that both systems require considerable development before being ready for industrial application. However, of the two systems investigated, it is the latter which shows the greatest potential to not only greatly enhance the durability of cementitious composites, but also to improve their strength and ductility.
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Yee, Poyan. "Healing through curatorial dialogue." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2011. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/1123/.
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Burattini, Stefano. "Self-Assembled Healing Polymers." Thesis, University of Reading, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.525124.
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Petts, David. "Healing and the atonement." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1993. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11341/.
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The purpose of the thesis is to examine the doctrine that physical healing is provided in the atonement. This is defined as "the view that Christians may claim healing from sickness on the grounds that Christ has already carried that sickness for them just as he has carried their sins". The theological and literary origins of the doctrine are traced and developments and modifications noted, particular reference being made to the Classical Pentecostal groups among which the doctrine is largely to be found. The New Testament passages used to support the doctrine are identified. These include Matthew 8:17, 1 Peter 2:24, Galatians 3:13, 1 Corinthians 11:29-30, James 5:14-15, and Mark 16:15-18. The conclusion is drawn that none of these passages supports the doctrine as it was originally propounded. The doctrine is also examined in the light of a possible relationship between healing and salvation, healing and the Gospel, sickness and sin, sickness and Satan, and sickness and suffering. The bearing on the doctrine of New Testament references to sick Christians and to the art of medicine is also considered. The examination of these themes leads to a conclusion that a modified form of the doctrine might well find a basis in the New Testament. Theological difficulties dealt with include the problem of relating the word "atonement" to sickness and the notion that Bible verses are "promises" to be "claimed". Practical and pastoral difficulties are also considered. In the final chapter a modification to the doctrine is proposed. Healing may be understood to be in the atonement both ultimately and indirectly. This is based on the Pauline teaching that those in Christ are to be clothed with an incorruptible body at the Parousia. Meanwhile healings occur as a work of the Spirit who is given to Christians as an αρραβών of their inheritance.
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Hardy, John R. W. "Tibial diaphyseal fracture healing." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/34096.
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Liu, Runjie. "Kindled - A Healing Garden." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/96805.
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This thesis proposes a hypothetical building that intends to provide a relatively "private space" while in a public park to facilitate a conversation with therapists, small group-talk sessions, and classrooms to practice yoga. People are encouraged to walk and talk, and exercises are methods of psychotherapy. The architecture plan of this thesis encourages people with depression to evolve with others, and all programs have at least two people as a group. The distance between the two is the main key for all the designing of space. In other words, this thesis is also about a study of human psychology about "comfort zones."<br>Overall, the project is going to be a two-story building on the empty space of an urban park while its existence does not break the original park's intention which is providing space for the community to relax and enjoy life. It is a project with its form and function that embodies care for humanity physically and psychologically.
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Sumner, Elizabeth Wong. "Grief and Healing Sanctuary." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30907.
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My thesis is an exploration of the emotional connection we have with architecture.
The inspirations for the Grief and Healing Sanctuary were the healing experienced at quiet spaces of reflection and my fatherâ s stories as a Navy Vietnam shipboard combat veteran.
I designed a building to provide a place for healing and to deal with grief. The building was designed for patients and their families being treated at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Not all families leave as they arrive. The families, many from out of town, need a place to reflect, pray, cry, or laugh.
This need was reinforced by my fatherâ s stories of his transition from normal life to the extremes of combat to life back as a civilian. No one comes out unaffected, and there is not always a place to go and reflect.
The Grief and Healing Sanctuary provides these spaces for all people who have these needs.<br>Master of Architecture
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Bhatnagar, Kangana. "Healing, Learning and Play." VCU Scholars Compass, 2008. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1561.
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Research suggests that the first five years of life are critical for building the foundation for children’s success throughout their schooling and life. Throughout these first years of life there are a number of essential windows of opportunity during which certain kinds of stimuli are needed to help the brain develop and maintain critical connections necessary for learning. This project is a unification of a Child Development Center and a therapeutic center. This center includes children who suffer from bereavement; a broken home, death of a parent or child abuse. These children are provided with therapy by a specialist, and also given an opportunity to interact with other children as a form of therapy. This thesis therefore explores the following questions. How can design create a place that enhances learning, healing and play through interaction and movement? How can design create a space for the special needs of children without having to bind them in a classroom? How to create movement in a building that itself is static in nature?
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Bohannon, Sara. "The Slow Healing Itch." VCU Scholars Compass, 2010. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/51.
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Holbrook, Jill Nadine 1948. "The essence of healing." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291502.
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Healing is a human experience of primary concern to nurses. Understanding the experience of healing can offer nurses insight and possibly new ways to support healing in others. Healing Touch is an energy based therapeutic modality used to promote healing. With Healing Touch as one path and phenomenology as a guide, the lived experience of healing was explored. After analysis of the data from taped interviews the essential structure of the experience of healing was determined. Many similarities were found with literature and previous studies. Healing is described as a process, requiring active participation and effort through which a person becomes more aware with a higher consciousness, a sense of self worth and a feeling of serenity and joy. From this process and the many suggested paths, a prescription for healing emerged.
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Underdown, Mary Jane. "Antioxidants and Wound Healing." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/65.
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Neutrophils and cytokines present during an inflammatory response produce oxidants, such as reactive oxygen species (ROS) or reactive nitrogen species (RNS). These oxidants act as free radicals, a highly reactive species that steal electrons from nearby molecules to satisfy their valence electron needs. The removal of electrons by free radicals produces damage within the healthy cells of tissue. Antioxidants can be used to reduce this oxidative stress and reestablish the necessary environment for wound healing by donating electrons to the free radicals, sparing the damaging effects oxidation causes to other molecules. The standard procedure for administering supplemental antioxidants is through enteral delivery. However, the inflammation and vascular damage experienced with a burn wound produces a notable decrease in the blood profusion to the damaged tissues. In contrast, this research focuses on a topical antioxidant treatment applied directly to the surface of the wound. By applying the gel topically, a higher concentration of antioxidants will be able to permeate the damaged tissue and quench enough free radicals to provide a therapeutic effect. Additionally, the gel developed by this research is comprised of a large percentage of Vitamin E-TPGS. This is a product capable of stabilizing moisture at the wound site; drawing fluid from the moist center and redistributing it to the drier perimeters of the wound. It is hypothesized the need for surgical debridement may decrease as a result of use of this topical application. Antioxidants often referred to in literature discussing nutrition and wound care include the following: Vitamin E, α-Lipoic Acid, Vitamin C, Grape Seed Extract, Coenzyme Q10, Glutathione, and Lutein. These antioxidants were incorporated into a gel formula, using a factorial method, based on their antioxidant potential as evidenced by the existing literature. In order to identify the most effective combination of these antioxidants, one-, two-, three-, four-, and five-component antioxidant gels representing every combination of the test antioxidants were produced. This resulted in a compilation of 35 gels for comparison. Each gel was tested on the basis of viscosity, pH, and antioxidant capacity. Antioxidant capacity was determined using the Ferric Reducing Antioxidant Plasma (FRAP) Assay, a spectrophotometric evaluation. A three-antioxidant gel composed of α-Lipoic Acid, Coenzyme Q10, and Mixed Tocopherols (with and without micronized silver) was chosen as the final formulation. The storage stability of the final formulation was then evaluated once per week (over a total of 7 weeks) by measuring changes in pH, viscosity, and FRAP assay. In collaboration with Dr. Joseph Molnar at Wake Forest School of Medicine, an animal model trial will be conducted in the Spring Semester 2013 to determine the viability of the gel in comparison to a negative control and silver sulfadiazine, the current standard treatment protocol.
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Thomas, Donna. "Equipping leaders to facilitate spiritual, relational, and emotional healing in Healing care groups." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p028-0238.
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Thesis (D. Min.)--Ashland Theological Seminary, 2006.<br>Abstract. Includes copy of The healing Christ in community: equipping leaders to facilitate healing care in small group communities. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 220-224).
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Curry, Heather. "Beyond Survival: An Exploration of Narrative Healing and Forgiveness in Healing from Rape." Scholar Commons, 2010. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3559.
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This work explores: liberatory possibilities and limitations of narrative in healing from rape; the work and meanings of forgiveness, specifically seeking a complex definition of forgiveness drawing on spiritual, feminist, complexity, and phenomenological philosophies; and the relationships between narrative processes and forgiveness. I use an autoethnographic approach, offering my story of rape and healing in the aftermath. I attend to the physicality of the narrative, and to the way in which memory resides in the body, thus creating an embodied text. I examine current models of rape recovery, and the terms used by organizations, practitioners, and authors of rape narratives to frame the recovery process, contending that current models and the language of recovery fails to recognize the dynamic and non-linear trajectory of healing. I return to my own process of forgiveness, which is illustrative of the unpredictable event of forgiveness, which grows from the dissolution of self and other.
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Roy, Rahul. "Bacteria - based self - healing mortar with bio - plastic healing agents : Comparative analysis on quantification and characterization of self-healing by various experimental techniques." Thesis, KTH, Betongbyggnad, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-289227.
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Crack formation in concrete structures due to various load and non-load factors leading to degradation of service life is very common. Repair and maintenance operations are, therefore, necessary to prevent cracks propagating and reducing the service life of the structures. Accessibility to affected areas can, however, be difficult and the reconstruction and maintenance of concrete buildings are expensive in labor and capital. Autonomous healing by encapsulated bacteria-based self-healing agents is a possible solution. In this study, a novel bacteria-based healing agent was investigated in order to test the self-healing efficiency of the specimens in comparison to the commonly used healing agents made of lactic acid derivatives. (PLA). The novel integrated healing agent is a non-toxic, biodegradable dissolved inorganic carbon substrate derived from wastewater that has been used as an encapsulation material for spores of cohnii bacteria in the Bacillus gene family and for nutrients made up of yeast extract. This dissolved inorganic carbon substrate is a bioplastic made by the bacteria in wastewater known as alkanoate derivatives (AKD). To assess the effect of these healing agents on the mortar characteristics, quantification and characterization of the self-healing were conducted. The quantification of the self-healing efficiency was performed by various experimental techniques such as light microscopy, water permeability, chloride ion permeability, and thermogravimetric analysis whereas the material characterization was investigated by x-ray diffraction and environmental scanning electron microscope. Moreover, a statistical analysis was performed to study the correlation of self-healing efficiency between various experimental techniques. The incorporated dosages of healing agents adopted were 2.6% and 5% by weight of cement. Complete immersion in water was considered to be the condition of treatment of the specimen for healing at two separate periods of 28 and 56 days. The crack widths investigated were in the range of 0.04 to 0.8 mm. The quantification and characterization tests indicated that bacterial containing mortar series especially PLA and AKD at 5% dosage displayed a higher self-healing performance and an indication of precipitated calcium carbonate in the crack mouth. However, the results from the chloride migration test didn’t show any influence by the self-healing healing agents. Furthermore, the statistical analysis identified a major impact of the internal crack geometry on the difference in self-healing ratios, also in the cases where effective crack width is equal.<br>Sprickbildning i betongkonstruktioner p.g.a. olika laster och lastoberoende faktorer som leder till förkortning av livslängden är mycket vanligt förekommande. Reparation och underhåll är därför nödvändiga för att förhindra att sprickorna propagerar och reduceras konstruktionernas livslängd. Möjligheterna att komma åt de skadade partierna kan dock vara svåra och reparationerna är vanligen både arbetsintensiva och kostsamma. Självläkning med ingjutna bakteriebaserade, självläkande tillsatser är en möjlig lösning på problemet. I denna studie undersöktes en ny bakteriebaserat självläkande tillsats för att prova den självläkande förmågan i jämförelse med vanligt förekommande självläkande tillsatser av mjölksyrederivat (PLA). Den nya integrerade självläkande tillsatsen är en giftfri, biologiskt nedbrytningsbar, oorganisk kolsubstratslösning utvunnen ur avloppsvatten, en tillsats som har använts som ett inkapslingsmaterial för sporer från cohnii-bakterier från bacillussläktet och från näringsämnen framställda ur jästextrakt. Denna kolsubstratslösning är en bioplast framställd ur avloppsvatten och känd som alkanoatderivat (AKD). För att bestämma effekten av dessa självläkande tillsatser på cement bruks egenskaper genomfördes kvantifiering och karakterisering av självläkningen. Kvantifieringen av självläkningens effektivitet utfördes genom olika experimentella metoder såsom ljusmikroskopi, vattengenomsläpplighet, kloridjonstransport och termogravimetriska analyser medan materialkarakteriseringen utfördes med röntgendiffraktion och svepelektronmikroskop (ESEM). Vidare genomfördes en statistisk analys för att undersöka korrelationen mellan olika experimentella metoder. De doser av självläkande tillsatser som användes var 2,6 och 5 % av cementvikten. Fullständig nedsänkning i vatten ansågs vara den lämpligaste lagringen för självläkning under två olika tidsperioder på 28 respektive 56 dygn. De sprickbredder som studerades låg i intervallet 0.04 till 0.8 mm. Försöken kring kvantifiering och karakterisering indikerade att bruken innehållande bakterier, i synnerhet 5 % PLA och AKD, utvecklade en högre form av självläkande beteende och en förekomst av kalciumkarbonat i sprickspetsen. Resultaten från försöken kring kloridtransport visade emellertid inga tecken på någon effekt från de självläkande tillsatserna. Vidare identifierades i den statistiska analysen att inre sprickbildning har stor betydelse för självläkningseffekten även i fall där den effektiva sprickbredden är lika stor.
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Caissie, Melita Annie. "The Okimaw Ohci Healing Lodge for Eskwewuk, is correctional practice consistent with healing practice?" Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0028/MQ51309.pdf.
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Head, Cynthia C. "Hormonal regulation of cutaneous wound healing effect of androstenediol on stress-impaired wound healing /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1186957947.
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MacPherson, Judith Ann. "Gender, Reiki and energetic healing : an exploration of holistic/'New Age' healing in Scotland." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/12658.
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Within, this thesis I provide the first empirical academic study of energetic healing, Reiki and dowsing in central Scotland, with the focus of my research being on the teaching of energetic healing in workshops (the Salisbury and Westbank centres being key locations) and related textual material. This thesis is also a step towards addressing the historical imbalance of writing about New Age beliefs and practices from a predominantly androcentric positioning, as I place emphasis on exploring how gendered spiritualities may be actively constructed in this setting. For as Dominic Corrywright has stated "the web of New Age spiritualities is crucially sustained by the individual and collective weavings of women and this is particularly evident in healing and therapies" (2003: 131). I argue that women's predominance in healing circles has a lot to do with personal projects of redefinition and self-transformation. This sort of 'work on the self does not occur under, as radical feminists Daly (1991) and Sjoo (1994) would state, overarching patriarchal paradigms. Rather 'healing of the self’ is located within fluid "fields of force" (Foucault, 1980). Therefore throughout this thesis I build up a decentralised narrative of power and locate women as active healing agents. In order to construct this narrative I draw from research in the fields of Goddess and women's spiritualities, for here we find useful evaluations of how women re-inscribe their bodies as sacred and empowered through, in the former, imminent ties to the Goddess. I relate my research to Meredith McGuire's empirical study of healing in the American context, where she argues that "If the creation, maintenance and transformation of individuals gender identities are indeed among the foremost identity work to be accomplished, then extensive empirical study of the many contemporary instances of gendered spirituality is very worthwhile" (McGuire, 1994: 254). Hence in the first two chapters of this thesis I engage with feminist and ethnographic theory in general. I argue that discourses of power are multivalent operating within academic, religious, bio-medical and holistic healing circles and at the individual level. For debates abound in relation to, for example, the prioritisation of text over experiential practice - the latter being central to New Age healing in Scotland. I introduce my location as a bothsider, an academic researcher and a practising healer as this positioning has raised its own particular set of theoretical and personal questions. And I draw in the aforementioned research in the parallel fields of Goddess and women's spiritualities. Chapter three engages with representations of "the body as energetic" at the micro 'in the field' level and is primarily descriptive. Within these pages I provide a picture of how the energetic body is discursively constructed hence providing some necessary background for later ethnographic material. In chapter four I also build on the previous chapter in relation to healing and curing models of health. I adopt Meredith McGuire's analytical framework of healing types. In this way I can locate my narrative of women's power and consciousness of healing into the debates between male dominated biomedical approaches to health and the apparently more egalitarian holistic (mind, body and spirit) approaches to the same. Chapters five and six focus specifically on the healing practice and discourses of Reiki, this healing modality growing significantly in popularity in Scotland. I will propose that Reiki provides the practitioner with contrasting notions of "the healthy body" to biomedical and mainstream religious significations of the same and enables the development of empowered models of subjectivity "as healer". The technique of dowsing, which is explored in chapter seven, is regarded in healing circles as being a "visible expression" of intuitive practice. Hence learning to dowse appears to provide additional confirmation for women healers of their ability to work as more autonomous agents. For dowsing practice falls within the umbrella of earth mysteries or Gaian traditions, where the earth is seen to be a conscious, living, self-regulating entity and is identified with as the "Goddess imminent". In the final chapter I pull this thesis together as a whole and return to some of the questions asked in my opening material, noting my distinctive contributions to healing research as "a bothsider". Throughout I acknowledge that my location as 'researcher/healer' is just as materially and politically located as are healers in the field. For I, as well as 'the subjects under study', operate within fluid fields of force. Overall, I place emphasis on evaluating distributions of power and the development of new liberating models of subjectivity in healing epistemologies.
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Billman, Emelie. "Healing, andlighet och nyreligiösa rörelser : En studie av de organisatoriska förändringarna inom Reconnective Healing." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-65805.
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Syftet med denna uppsats är att hitta en förklaring till varför andliga healinginriktningar med tiden upphör att kunna bedömas som andliga. Undersökningen tar avstamp i hypotesen att socialpsykologiska skäl ligger bakom. Den tidigare forskningen, gjord av Roy Wallis, Stefan Thau et al, Małgorzata Kossowska och Maciej Sekerdej, Juliette Schaafsma och Kipling D. Williams, samt en tidigare uppsats skriven av undertecknad, behandlar därför socialpsykologi med koppling till rörelser. Arbetet undersöker healingorganisationen Reconnective Healing som tidigare kategoriserats som andlig men som nyligen genomgått organisatoriska förändringar. Forskningsfrågorna berör vilka förändringar som skett och vart organisationen idag kan placeras begreppsmässigt. Den teoretiska bakgrunden utgörs av Olav Hammer, Roy Wallis, Christopher Partridge samt Anton Geels och Owe Wikström samt deras begreppsdefinitioner av andlighet, sekt, kult, religion och nyreligion. Även teorier kring socialpsykologi, av Lars Svedberg och Björn Nilsson, presenteras. Metoden för arbetet är kvalitativa intervjuer av Reconnective Healingutövare, samt komparativ analys. Resultatet visar att organisationen rört sig från andlighetsbegreppet och närmat sig begreppet nyreligion. De organisatoriska förändringarna tycks bottna i grundaren Eric Pearls vilja att minska pluralistiska synsätt inom organisationen genom att exkludera medlemmar samt strama åt regler och riktlinjer. Vidare tyder resultatet på att organisationer generellt kanske aldrig kan klassificeras som andliga då socialpsykologin inom gruppsammansättningar skapar faktorer som strider mot det mesta som definierar andlighet.<br>The purpose of this essay is to find a reason to why spiritual healing movements in time tend to fall outside the concept of spirituality. The hypothesis for this work is that it happens due to the social psychology within group constellations. Therefore the previous research, by Roy Wallis, Stefan Thau et al, Małgorzata Kossowska och Maciej Sekerdej, Juliette Schaafsma och Kipling D. Williams, and an earlier essay written by me, focuses on social psychology with connections to movements of different kinds. The essay investigates the healing organization Reconnective Healing, which has been categorized as spiritual but might not be anymore, due to some recent organizational changes. The research questions focus on what kind of changes has happened and where the organization can be placed in a concept categorisation today. The theoretical background is based on Olav Hammer, Roy Wallis, Christopher Partridge and Anton Geels and Owe Wikström. It consists of the concept definitions of spirituality, cult, sect, religion and new religion. Moreover, theories evolving social psychology, by Lars Svedberg and Björn Nilsson, is presented. The method used is comparative analysis and qualitative interviews of Reconnective Healing Practitioners. The result shows that the organization has moved from the concept of spirituality towards the concept of new religion. The cause of the organizational changes seems to be the founder, Eric Pearls will to decrease pluralistic views within the organisation, by excluding members and tighten the rules and guidelines. Moreover, the result indicates that organisations in general might never be able to be categorised as spiritual since the social psychology within group constellations creates factors that contradict most contents within spirituality.
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Corbett, Rick Owen. "The healing community a systems approach toward emotional healing through community, scripture and music /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.
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Shaohua, Qi. "Self-Healing Cements with Epoxy and Mercaptan Microcapsules or Polycaprolactone Particles as Healing Agent." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27395.
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Cementitious materials are the most wildly used construction materials in the world, and the development of self-healing cementitious materials are highly beneficial. The aim of the thesis is to use dual-microcapsules or polycaprolactone as self-healing agent, and to study the self-healing properties and fracture mechanics of the self-healing cement.
Microcapsule based self-healing cement in this work is fabricated by adding 10, 20 and 30 wt.% of dual-microcapsules to the cement. The dual-microcapsule system contains a bisphenol A diglycidyl ether (DGEBA) epoxy resin in one capsule and pentaerythritol tetrakis (i.e. mercaptan) as hardener in the other capsule. Polycaprolactone (PCL) based self-healing cement is prepared by adding 10, 20 and 30 wt.% of PCL powders to the cement. The study of self-healing efficiency and fracture behaviour of the self-healing cement are carried out using the TDCB (tapered double-cantilever beam) fracture tests.
For the microcapsules based self-healing system, microcapsules can be classified by three diameters. The diameters of epoxy microcapsules are 210 μm and 71 μm; the diameters of mercaptan microcapsules are 181 μm and 77 μm. The epoxy TDCB with inserted cement block was adopted in fracture characterization of the virgin cements without and with the healing agent as well as that after healing. The cement block is square or round in shape; the specimens with square shape cement showed inconsistent cracking, and most cracking started from edges rather than the pre-crack. The specimens with round shape cement showed consistent cracking along the pre-crack. 10, 20 and 30 wt.% of large microcapsules were added in the cement. The average healing efficiency of cement specimens is 4.6%, 48.1%, and 25.4%, respectively, for 10%, 20%, and 30% of large microcapsules, increasing with the content of healing agent.
For the PCL based self-healing system, the average diameter of PCL powder is 367 μm, and the melting point is 63°C defined by DSC. Rheology of PCL powders shows shear thinning behavior due to a decrease of viscosity under shear rate. The specimens healed at 110°C show better healing efficiency than those healed at 90°C; all of them reach 100% of healing efficiency except the specimens with 10% of PCL healed at 90°C. The maximum healing efficiency reaches 244% for the specimens embedded with 30% of PCL and healed at 110°C.
In conclusion, the healing efficiency increases with the content of epoxy microcapsules or PCL particles, because more coverage of the epoxy or PCL on the cracked surfaces. PCL-based cement at a high healing temperature shows better healing efficiency owing to the lower viscosity and better flow of PCL. PCL-based self-healing system shows better healing efficiency than epoxy microcapsules because of some microcapsules ruptured during the mixing process with the cement, losing its function.
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Alken, Martha. "The healing power of forgiving." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.
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