Instead of concentrating on the philosophical definitions of key terms, as he had in his book on Democritus, Havelock turned to the Greek language itself, arguing that the meaning of words changed after the full development of written literature to admit a self-reflective subject; even pronouns, he said, had different functions.
Indeed, serum IGF-1 levels in this group were more reflective of subjects that were 20 years older.
Reflexive awareness involves a direct knowing that reality is present-for-me prior to there being any reflective act-content, subject-object distinctions that characterize the representational world of conceptual cognition.
Our finding of decreased AGP in the CSF of RLS/WED subjects is reflective of decreased iron content in the CNS and provides further support for altered iron homeostasis in the brains of RLS/WED patients [ 14, 46, 47].
However, because the subjects are not reflective of the national population and the tests within the UDS battery were modified for pragmatic use, reliable normative data are not available for the battery.
Are the subjects of the study reflective of this typical population?
Film-maker David Malone has thought a lot about it, and has made a suitably reflective film on the subject.
The musician Nick Cave, the reflective and often solipsistic subject of 20,000 Days on Earth, puts it another way: life "only becomes a story when you begin to tell it and retell it".
In order to improve the accuracy of the machine, as suggested by the manufacturer for the dynamic and average analysis modalities, we manually put two reflective markers on the subject's back: the first one was placed in correspondence of the "vertebra prominens" (VP), and the second one in correspondence of the sacrum point (SP) at the beginning of the intergluteal cleft.
A 3D optical video motion capture system was used to record coordinate data from reflective markers positioned on subjects as they ascended and descended a custom-built staircase.
