AIM The concept of spirituality is much discussed in the UK nursing literature, despite the fact that Britain is one of the most secular countries in the world, and steadily becoming more so. Here, I pose the following question: given this increasing secularization, what accounts for the current interest in spirituality among UK nurses? BACKGROUND The literature on spirituality in nursing has...

In the present paper, we solve the problem of reducing to the simplest and convenient for our purposes, “canonical” form for an arbitrary pair of compatible nonlocal Poisson brackets of hydrodynamic type generated by metrics of constant Riemannian curvature (compatible Mokhov–Ferapontov brackets [1]) in order to get an effective construction of the integrable hierarchies related to all these co...

The optimal sequenced route (OSR) query performs a critical role in finding the most economical route for a trip, for instance, location base services. OSR finds the minimum-length route, starting from an origin location and passing through a number of locations or points of interest (POIs), following the prespecified route sequence. An OSR query on road networks tends to expand an extremely la...

This article discusses how constructivist psychology might contribute to studies of the history and philosophy of science. It is suggested that this would be a fruitful topic for graduate research, and a brief analysis is provided of what would be required to model the construct systems involved in the Priestley-Lavoisier controversy over the roles of phlogiston and oxygen in calcification. It ...

mathematics curriculum in schools is always a key position and is considered as an essential knowledge. so it is taught in the first years of school curriculum. this knowledge has focused on calculating the initial period. so this part of mathematics play an important role in lives of all people so this knowledge is essential for learning today. in the early years of primary school children, th...