Spirituality" has often been framed in social science research as an alternative to organized "religion," implicitly or explicitly extending theoretical arguments about the privatization of religion. This article uses in-depth qualitative data from a religiously-diverse U.S. sample to argue that this either-or distinction not only fails to capture the empirical reality of American religion, but...

We express the zeros of the Weierstass ℘-function in terms of generalized hypergeometric functions. As an application of our main result we prove the transcendence of two specific hypergeometric functions at algebraic arguments in the unit disc. We also give a Saalschützian 4F3–evaluation.

This essay about the phenomenon of human self-overlapping presents an evident plurality of approaches and theoretical definitions of this phenomenon. On the basis of historical, philosophical, psychological and sociological starting points the author tries to systemise knowledge and creates his own, temporary dual structure of the selfoverlapping phenomenon. The given phenomenon is suitable for...

In the present paper, we derive transcendence measures for the numbers log a, e, aP, (log aj)/(log 02) from a previous lower bound of ours on linear forms in the logarithms of algebraic numbers. Subject classification (Amer. Math Soc. (MOS) 1970): 10 F 05, 10 F 35

We give the first transcendence results for the Rosen continued fractions. Introduced over half a century ago, these fractions expand real numbers in terms of certain algebraic numbers.

This paper is concerned with difference equations on elliptic curves. We establish some general properties of the difference Galois groups of equations of order two, and give applications to the calculation of some difference Galois groups. For instance, our results combined with a result from transcendence theory due to Schneider allow us to identify a large class of discrete Lamé equations wi...

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 stude...

background: rhinoplasty is the most common cosmetic surgery which has been dramatically increasing in iran. currently, iran is ranked the first in the world in rhinoplasty. in the present study, we aimed to assess the character and temperament traits of the applicants referred to rhinoplasty surgeons in shiraz, southwest iran in 2015. methods: in this cross-sectional study, we recruited 500 par...

The aim of this short note is to answer a question by Guoliang Yu of whether the group EL3(Z〈x, y〉), where Z〈x, y〉 is the free (non-commutative) ring, has any faithful finite dimensional linear representations over a field. Recall that for every (associative unitary) ring R the group ELn(R) is the subgroup of GLn(R) generated by all n × n-elementary matrices xij(r) = Id + reij (r ∈ R, 1 ≤ i 6= ...

introduction: the purpose of this study was to investigate the role of patience and its components (transcendence, tolerance, contentment, persistence, and hesitation) in predicting bullying among primary school children in shiraz, iran. another purpose was to compare patience and bullying between male and female students. method: the participants were 317 elementary school students (169 female...