This study investigates how urban Malays give meanings to love within marriage. A total of 245 participants attending a compulsory premarital program in Klang Valley, Malaysia agreed to take part in this study. Questionnaires consisting of personal and relationship background were distributed to participants. How participants give meanings to love which exists in a marriage were rated using a s...

This article presents a construct validation of a love scale based upon a triangular theory of love. The article opens with a review of some of the major theories of love, and with a discussion of some of the major issues in love research. Next it briefly reviews selected elements of the triangular theory of love, according to which love can be understood as comprising three componentsÐintimacy...

This is an essay in comparative ethics within the Platonist tradition. Although the primary focus is on Augustine’s account of rightly ordered love of neighbor in De vera religione, it analyzes Augustine’s account of the love of finite goods by comparing it with Plato’s grounding of the love of imperfect creatures within an ontological hierarchy in Symposium. Against the backdrop of the critiqu...

The expression “for love or money” is generally used to indicate the two extremes, which cover between them the entire spectrum. “I wouldn’t do that for love or money” means I wouldn’t do that in exchange for anything. It can be interesting, however, to read that or as marking not an opposition but a common function that love and money share, somewhat like the or in Spinoza’s famous phrase “deu...

Although Love waves are widely analyzed in earthquake seismology, there is much less attention on utilizing Love waves than Rayleigh waves by the near-surface community. Unlike incident P and Sv waves, a plane SH wave for a series of horizontal layers refracts and reflects only SH waves, which makes the shallow SH-wave refraction method more popular to define shear (S)-wave velocity in nearsurf...

Plerixafor and granulocyte colony-stimulating factor for first-line steady-state autologous peripheral blood stem cell mobilization in lymphoma and multiple myeloma: results of the prospective PREDICT trial Nigel Russell, Kenny Douglas, Anthony D. Ho, Mohamad Mohty, Kristina Carlson, G.J. Ossenkoppele, Giuseppe Milone, Macarena Ortiz Pareja, Daniel Shaheen, Arnold Willemsen, Nicky Whitaker, and...

Ai Kawazoe, Ph.D., Lihua Jin, Ph.D., Mika Shigematsu, M.D., Roberto Barrero, Ph.D., Kiyosu Taniguchi, M.D., Nigel Collier, Ph.D. National Institute of Informatics, Hitotsubashi 2-1-2 Chiyoda-ku Tokyo, JAPAN National Institute of Genetics, Yata 1111 Mishima Shizuoka, JAPAN National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Toyama 1-23-1 Shinjuku-ku Tokyo, JAPAN {zoeai,lihua-jin,collier}@nii.ac.jp, rbarr...

Footprint Reduction in the Home AMCIS Lima, Peru Aug 2010 David Kreps1 , Vasughi Sundramoorthy2, Grahame Cooper2, Haifa Takruri-Rizk2, Nigel Linge2, 1 Information Systems, Origanisations and Society Research Centre 2 Computer Networking and Telecommunications Research Centre University of Salford, Greater Manchester, M5 4WT, UK See http://www.dehems.eu for more information. Poster by d.g.kreps@...