OBJECTIVES The present study investigated whether hope and hopelessness are better conceptualized as a single construct of bipolar spectrum or two distinct constructs and whether hope can moderate the relationship between hopelessness and suicidal ideation. METHODS Hope, hopelessness, and suicidal ideation were measured in a community sample of 2106 participants through a population-based hou...

Some experts argue that acts of assisted suicide and euthanasia are ethically appropriate because they are merciful. Compelling though it is, this argument is not sufficient for determining the morality of these acts. The ethical tradition that calls for mercy has never suggested that mercy is, by itself, a sufficient criterion for determining an act's moral appropriateness. Human motives are r...

Who are the vagrants that we try our best to avoid in the city streets? How have they reached such a state of hopelessness and destitution? Do we care anyway?

A sequence a,< . . . of integers is called primitive if no a divides any other . (a 1 < . . . will always denote a primitive sequence .) It is easy to see that if a i < . . . < a,,, < n then max k = [(n + 1) /2] . The following question seems to be very much more difficult . Put f(n) =niax E 1) , a,, where the maximum is taken over all primitive sequences all of wliose terms are not exceeding n...

Few studies have examined the relation between childhood maltreatment and adult suicidality within the context of a coherent theoretical model. The current study evaluates the ability of the hopelessness theory of depression's (Abramson, Metalsky, & Alloy, 1989) etiological chain to account for this relation in a sample of 297 undergraduates. Supporting the model, emotional, but not physical or...

This autoethnographic piece reflects on the cost of living and loving in this beautiful broken, “crisis ordinary” world. In interplay creative critical, lyrical liminal, I write human imperative to find heart a hopeless place. inspiration poetry Czelaw Milosz kindness communication and, so doing, advocate for small nothings that bring us solace personal preservation face big wicked problems dis...

Accompanied with various opinions across cultures, truth telling is a major debate in bioethics. Many studies have focused on attitudes toward truth disclosure. We intend to review several relevant research studies, and discuss the issue through a clinical case consultation. It seems that while "the right to know" is emphasized in bioethics, in some cultural contexts, health professionals fear ...

Background and Aim: Several methods have been suggested to measure gingival thick-ness. This study aimed to assess the reliability of visual assessment of facial gingival biotype of maxillary and mandibular teeth with or without using a periodontal probe in comparison with direct measurement. Materials and Methods: Sixty-seven healthy patients (25 women and 42 men) with a total of 100 hopele...