Abstract Background/Introduction Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) is lower compared the general population, healthy controls, and other cardiovascular diseases. Many factors influence HRQoL AF negatively. Illness perceptions have been shown to be related a number diseases, but, role effect illness perception on lacking. Purpose The aim was explore...

A meta-analysis of empirical studies (N1⁄4 45) adopting Leventhal, Meyer and Nerenz’s (1980) Common Sense Model (CSM) of illness representations is presented. The average corrected intercorrelation matrix for the sample of studies showed that the CSM illness cognition dimensions of consequences, control/cure, identity and timeline followed a logical pattern supporting their construct and discri...

in this article, we introduce monomial irreducible representations of the special linear lie algebra $sln$. we will show that this kind of representations have bases for which the action of the chevalley generators of the lie algebra on the basis elements can be given by a simple formula.