BACKGROUND Given the greater tendency during adolescence toward risk-taking, identifying and measuring the factors affecting the adolescents' health is highly important to ensure the efficacy of health promoting interventions. One of these factors is self-transcendence. The aim of this study was to assess the psychometric features of the Self-Transcendence Scale (adolescents' version) in studen...

Transcendental numbers form a fascinating subject: so little is known about the nature of analytic constants that more research is needed in this area. Even when one is interested only in numbers like π and e which are related with the classical exponential function, it turns out that elliptic functions are required (so far – this should not last for ever!) to prove transcendence results and ge...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To understand the meaning of self-transcendence, or the ability to go beyond the self, for patients who have had a stem cell transplantation. RESEARCH APPROACH A phenomenologic investigation guided by the interpretive philosophy of Heidegger. SETTING A cancer center in a major urban academic medical center. PARTICIPANTS 4 men and 4 women ages 45-63 who had received a st...

We discuss the role of auxiliary functions in the development of transcendental number theory. Earlier auxiliary functions were completely explicit (§ 1). The earliest transcendence proof is due to Liouville (§ 1.1), who produced the first explicit examples of transcendental numbers at a time where their existence was not yet known; in his proof, the auxiliary function is just a polynomial in o...

With reference to the intergenerational theorizing of trauma, this article considers the role of transcendence in the substance of our theoretical ideas about psychosis. Arguing against an emphasis on notions of developmental deficit, the author considers the recent work of Davoine and Gaudilliere as a means of questioning some of the paradigmatic assumptions of clinical psychology. It is sugge...

is known to have only finitely many triples of positive integer solutions x, y, z for a given n > 2 (Faltings, 1983). In Chapter 11, special situations are described in which more precise information is accessible. For example, if x is in S, then n is bounded by a computable number C5 = Cb(pv ..., p8). From these examples, it should be clear that the book is a mine of information for workers in...

Various ethical theories recommend developing a morally sound character, and therefore require an understanding of the nature and development of traits. Philosophers usually accept the Aristotelian view that traits are a combination of habit and insight. Sartre’s early work offers an alternative: traits consist in projects. One aim of this paper is to show that this is indeed Sartre’s view, by ...

We revisit the classical theorem of Euler regarding special values of the Riemann zeta function as well as Hecke’s generalization of this to Dirichlet’s Lfunctions and derive an elliptic analogue. We also discuss transcendence questions that arise from this analogue.

These notes discuss formalizing contexts as first class objects. The basic relation is ist(c, p). It asserts that the proposition p is true in the context c. The most important formulas relate the propositions true in different contexts. Introducing contexts as formal objects will permit axiomatizations in limited contexts to be expanded to transcend the original limitations. This seems necessa...