The connection between the AIDS epidemic and the efflorescence of religious 'enthusiasm' (construed in both classical and contemporary senses) in Africa in recent decades is best understood, this paper argues, by reference to a concept of 'spiritual insecurity'. The article offers a general description of the condition of spiritual insecurity and argues that it is best studied within a relation...

The last decade has experienced a vivid enthusiasm to unravel the mystery of consciousness believed to be one of the major puzzles of human kind. We share this enthusiasm. Still, we feel that current models are incomplete suffering from a problem that we call the "small network argument".

the primitive arab people ruled women’s (body) covering as well as chastity, and the poets were honored to praise these qualities in their poems.in the present article reasons of women’s (body) covering are studied.the main reasons to be mentioned are grief and sorrow, fear of captivity in wars, enthusiasm and interests and poverty.

BACKGROUND Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) usually involves homework, the completion of which is a known predictor of a positive outcome. The aim of the present study was to examine the session-by-session relationships between enthusiasm to complete the homework and the improvement of psychological distress in depressed people through the course of therapy. METHODS Working people with subt...

Past residents and colleagues gathered for a memorial service during the 1995 annual meeting of the American Society of Hospital (now Health-System) Pharmacists (ASHP) to honor past president Clifton Joseph Latiolais. A consistent theme ran through the memorials: innovator, leader, visionary, teacher, and preceptor. Especially noted was his philosophy of enthusiasm for excellence, of doing the ...

In 1913, Albert Salomon, a German surgeon, published his monograph about the utility of radiological studies of mastectomy specimens, demonstrating the possibility of correlating radiological, macro and microscopic anatomy of breast diseases with differentiation between benign and malignant entities. Major works followed that of A.Salomon, namely, Kleinschmidt, Warren, Vogel, Seabold, Gerson-Co...

Underlying any understanding of the mode, tempo and relative importance of the adaptive process in the evolution of natural populations is the notion of whether adaptation is mutation limited. Two very different population genetic models have recently been proposed in which the rate of adaptation is not strongly limited by the rate at which newly arising beneficial mutations enter the populatio...

CONTEXT Public health officials, physicians, and disease advocacy groups have worked hard to educate individuals living in the United States about the importance of cancer screening. OBJECTIVE To determine the public's enthusiasm for early cancer detection. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Survey using a national telephone interview of adults selected by random digit dialing, conducted fro...

In this paper I describe the main aspects of my career and focus on the retrospective on my life and my work.