conclusions: relationships between the spiritual intelligence and resiliency parameters with withdrawal time show that these parameters can have a role in relapse protection among addicted people. results: there were significant positive correlations between resiliency and scores of spiritual intelligence as well as with subscales of spiritual intelligence. in addition, there were significant p...

A key question in research on empathy is what interpersonal motivations might be activated by empathy. Does empathy promote only a concern with other's outcomes ("altruism"), as well as decreased concern with one's own outcomes ("selflessness"), or an increased concern with equality in outcomes ("egalitarianism")? These interpersonal motivations were assessed with a series of experimental games...

the efficiency of the health care system is significantly dependent on the appropriate leadership and guidance of employees. one of the most frequently used new approaches in human resources management is the study of competencies and competency models. the aim of this research is to develop a competency model for leaders in nursing, and to compare it with the leadership competency model for st...

The Gulf War Illnesses story points at a particular public health problem of our time – how to convey complicated information to the public in an acceptable and understandable way. For public health, it is of crucial importance to present and communicate the truth, which always goes hand in hand with some degree of uncertainty. The responsibility of public health professionals and other physici...

We propose in this paper a practical and secure electronic voting protocol for large-scale online elections. Our protocol satisfies a large set of important criteria that has never been put together in a single protocol before. Among all electronic voting schemes in the literature, Sensus, a security-conscious electronic voting protocol proposed by Cranor and Cytron [CC97], satisfies the most o...

pelled to explore the emergence of this fascinating branch of medicine that first introduced the intricacies of physical examination through three layers of clothing. It is unfortunate that the architects and designers of our medical institutions had the myopic vision to ignore the possibilities of using the hallways for advanced medical care. In an era of cutbacks and cost constraint, can we h...

We develop and compare two theories of professional forecasters’ strategic behavior. The first theory, reputational cheap talk, posits that forecasters aim at convincing the market that they are well informed. The market evaluates their forecasting talent on the basis of the forecasts and the realized state. If the market expects the forecasters to report their posterior expectations honestly, ...

The authors of this article aim to contextualize the religious-philosophical ideas prominent philosopher Russian emigration, Ivan Ilyin, with prose Bunin, Boris Zaitsev, and Vladimir Nikiforov-Volgin. novelty research lies in identifying typological correlation between Ilyin’s about essential characteristics national character, manifested pursuit perfection, artistic worldview writers who inter...