the pure life (hayat al-tayyibah) is the real life of man which the worldly life with all its vast scope and the otherworldly life with its eternity and importance are the manifestations of this real life; this original and real life is a reality beyond the outward life and can be achieved in this world. the pure life is originated from high levels of human spirit; the faithful man in his subli...

I t was a sad day on Monday, April 13, 2009, for lifelong Detroit Tigers fans, when the news came that Mark " The Bird " Fidrych had died at age 54 in an accident on his farm in Massachusetts. Just the mention of his name brings back fond memories for me of the summer of 1976. That summer, as the nation celebrated its bicentennial, the number of murders skyrocketed in Detroit. The bitterness of...

The Anglophone philosophical world is currently riding a swelling wave of enthusiasm for a big, dense, blockbuster of a book by the previously unknown Jena philosopher, Georg Hegel. His Phenomenology of Spirit, originally in German, now available also in English, picks up and weaves together in a surprising and wholly original way a large number of today’s most fashionable ideas. Although he ne...

ADVANCES Summer 2003, VOL. 19, NO. 2 I want to thank Dr Rossman for so thoughtfully articulating a dilemma faced by many clinicians who work with and support patients, as well as their families, who are struggling with cancer. This dilemma arises when mind/body is divorced from spirit. Addressing spirit enables clinicians to resist the proclivity of conventional medicine to standardize care, ev...

Purpose – This study sought to identify organizational factors that foster an individual’s experience of spirit at work. Design/methodology/approach – Ten women and three men, ranging in age from 26 to 81, who were in full-time paid employment in a variety of occupations, and who self-identified as having high spirit at work, participated in in-depth, reflective interviews. Findings – Inspired ...

  The purpose of this paper is to explore the influential factors on entrepreneurial spirit of wood and paper industries students in two universities, namely Agriculture and natural resources faculty of Tehran University and Shahid Rajaiee teacher training University. A sample of 100 students were selected from a target population of 572 students using the Cochran formula. The respondents were...

The modern Vikings are academic researchers. They are to be found in the Universities of Uppsala, Stockholm, Linkoping, Gothenberg, etc. Their names are Jan Johanson, Häkan Häkansson, Lars-Gunnar Mattson et. al. Their gods are Relationships, Interaction and Networks. Their ideas, concepts and research frameworks have their origins in the same spirit of adventure as their forebears. Crucially, t...

The Authors would like to thank Yu-jie Chen for her tremendous assistance both with the research that went into this Article and with her comments on earlier drafts. We would also like to thank

Recently while doing cataract surgery, I saw a visiting student wandering across our theatre unaware that he was trailing flames from his gown. Deserting my patient, I beat on the back of the unsuspecting student with my surgically gloved hands (!) to put out the flames. The student was not harmed except for a hole in his gown, though my hands were a bit scorched, and the seeds of this article ...

Object correlation and maneuver detection are persistent problems in space surveillance and space object catalog maintenance. This paper demonstrates the utility of using quadratic trajectory control cost, an analog to the trajectory L2-norm in control, as a distance metric with which to both correlate object tracks and detect maneuvers using Uncorrelated Tracks (UCTs), real-time sensor measure...