Namaste Care is a program designed to offer meaningful activities to nursing home residents with advanced dementia or those who cannot be engaged in traditional activities. This 7-day-a-week program is staffed by specially trained nursing assistants who provide activities of daily living in an unhurried manner, with a ''loving touch'' approach to care. The program takes place in a room with low...

Insurance for the poor, called microinsurance, has recently drawn the attention of practitioners in developing countries. However, there are common problems among the various schemes: (1) low take-up rates, (2) high claim rates, and (3) low renewal rates. In this paper, we investigate take-up decisions using household data collected in Karnataka, India, especially focusing on prospect theory, h...

Psychrophiles are extremophilic bacteria or archaea which are cold-loving, having an optimal temperature for growth at about 158C or lower, a maximal temperature for growth at about 208C and a minimal temperature for growth at 08C or lower. Psychrotrophs are cold-tolerant bacteria or archaea that have the ability to grow at low temperatures, but have optimal and maximal growth temperatures abov...

In July 1977, the Ontario Humans Rights Commission recommended adding sexual orientation to the Code. This move was generally supported but Toronto newspapers and evangelists sought assurances that school boards could still dismiss homosexual teachers. They demanded children be shielded from gay teachers, who they accused of sexual predation. I historically link this to a reenergized fear of ho...

Love is deeply biological. It pervades every aspect of our lives and has inspired countless works of art. Love also has a profound effect on our mental and physical state. A ‘broken heart’ or a failed relationship can have disastrous effects; bereavement disrupts human physiology and might even precipitate death. Without loving relationships, humans fail to flourish, even if all of their other ...

The study aimed to investigate the effects of loving-kindness meditation on positive emotions, intragroup interactions, and complex understanding of others. A total of 50 freshmen not receiving any training in meditation intervention were randomly divided into the meditation group (25 subjects) and the control group (25 subjects). The meditation group was implemented with group meditation inter...

Basic aim of the current study was to link breathing rate with beauty. 100 subjects were took part in this project. All candidates belong educational department biology. People 25 should be interested beauty loving behavior. While very few them not good looks.