The concept of self-care is multidimensional, with many defining elements. This paper describes the origin of this comprehensive concept. It examines the response of the nursing discipline to citizen self-care initiatives and the subsequent effects this response has had on the development of nursing knowledge. The evolution of self-care as a core concept within Canadian health policy is present...

For minimal systems (X, T) of zero topological entropy we demon-strate the sharp difference between the behavior, regarding entropy, of the sys-tems (M(X) , T) and (2x , T) induced by T on the spaces M(X) of prob-ability measures on X and 2x of closed subsets of X. It is shown that thesystem (M(X) , T) has itself zero topological entropy. Two proofs of this the-orem are give...

A mortgage loan comes with the option to prepay (part of) the full amount of the loanbefore the end of the contract. This is called mortgage prepayment, and poses a risk tothe bank issuing the mortgage due to the loss of future interest payments. This thesisreviews some general properties of artificial neural networks, which are then applied topredict prepayment probabilities on...