As a permanent bodily modification that is applied to infants, cranial modification is one important method of symbolizing ascribed social identities and so can be useful for archaeological investigations into inter- and intra-group social relations.
With attention to the work of Foucault and other poststructuralist writers, also came the recognition that practices of bodily modification could have multiple meanings, with disagreements over responses to cosmetics, fashion and cosmetic surgery (Davis 1997).
A variety of arbitrary signals, such as clothing or bodily modification, are used as indicators of cultural identity and thus become associated with social values (Efferson, Lalive, & Fehr, 2008).
However these measures do not reveal whether modifications in global bodily self-consciousness are associated with changes in tactile spatial representations.
The discrepancy suggests that, per gram, the cost of primate brain tissue scales faster than the cost of non-neuronal bodily tissues, which calls for a modification of the "expensive tissue hypothesis" of brain evolution [11], according to which brain size is a limiting factor.
Since surface plays a key role in biomaterials performance, its modifications and integrity in bodily fluids due to corrosion phenomena are factors to take into account prior to in vivo testing.
14 It consists of four interconnected components: Chan practice (self-awareness and enhancement/psychosocial education); mind body exercises (including training in Dan Tian breathing, shoulder relaxation, and nasal massage); dietary modification; and clearing of the bodily orifices, which aims to improve physical and psychological health.
For Price, when it comes to somatic sensations and feelings, there is only one sense-datum with its own unique somatic sense-field such that all bodily feelings and sensations are qualifications or modifications of it.
In the first part of the study, one questionnaire comprised three SF-36 scales related to physical health (physical functioning, bodily pain, and general health perceptions) without any modifications in the order or composition of the items.
Thus, the modification of beliefs about the threatening value of bodily sensations might be a fundamental mechanism underlying effectiveness of cognitive interventions.
These cases already fraught with difficult moral questions involve the rather clumsy and "low-level" use of pharmacology to target the bodily sex drive, and hence are capable of only indirect modification of a person's "higher order" feelings of love or attachment.
