Although social work is witnessing growing interest in spiritual and religious issues, little guidance has appeared in the literature to assist practitioners in addressing the unique spirituality of rapidly increasing non-Western populations. This article discusses the significant cultural/spiritual beliefs, practices, and values of Hindus, the largest Asian religion in the United States. Possi...

This article contains the reasons for the establishment of sacred trees in Israel based on a field study. It includes 97 interviews with Muslim and Druze informants. While Muslims (Arabs and Bedouins) consider sacred trees especially as an abode of righteous figures' (Wellis') souls or as having a connection to their graves, the Druze relate sacred trees especially to the events or deeds in the...

What Emmanuel Falque seems to achieve in this book is make the "out of phenomenon" synonymous with "tragic". Certainly, we see heuristic interest creating and cultivating concept phenomenon". In Aeschylus' Agamemnon (a reference that runs throughout book), atrocious rubs shoulders filthy can only test us, traumatize and, therefore, "modify" us some way. If it also true tragic, according Kierkeg...

Here P is the plant system concerned, C is the controller and the signal r, y, a, u and n are the reference, system output, control input, output disturbance and sensor noise respectively. Classical control systems design emphasizes the securing of a number of conflicting objectives for this feedback system such as; . securing closed loop stability from each external input to the loop signals u...

Restoration projects can have varying goals, depending on the specific focus, rationale, and aims for restoration. When restoration projects use project-specific goals to define activities and gauge success without considering broader ecological context, determination of project implications and success can be confounding. We used case studies from the Middle Rio Grande (MRG), southwest USA, to...

this article discusses what ethicists have called “unacceptable trade-offs” in health policy choices related to universal health coverage (uhc). since the fiscal space is constrained, trade-offs need to be made. but some trade-offs are unacceptable on the path to universal coverage. unacceptable choices include, among other examples from low-income countries, to expand coverage for services wit...

k-median and k-center are two well-known problems in facility location which play an important role in operation research, management science, clustering and computational geometry. To the best of our knowledge, although these problems have lots of applications, they have never been studied together simultaneously as a multi objective optimization problem. Multi-objective optimization has been ...