Background Different health behaviors influence health and illness. Spiritual well-being is one of the most important aspects of health promotion. The aim of this study was to identify the association between spiritual behavior in relation to meditation, worship, and physical exercise during yoga with self-reported disease/illness among women of the Kailali district of Nepal. Methods This was...

We analyze the funding of start-up companies across financing rounds, focusing on dynamic interactions between angel investors and venture capitalists. Using unique data from British Columbia, Canada, we show that angels capitalists are substitutes. This substitutes pattern applies performance range companies. It is less pronounced for serial angels. An instrumental variable analysis, based ava...

The abstract behaviour of a grid application management system can be modelled as an Orc expression in which sites are called to perform sub-computations. An Orc expression specifies how a set of site calls are to be orchestrated so as to realise some overall desired computation. In this paper evaluations of Orc expressions in untrusted environments are analysed by means of game theory. The set...

L EADING THE 1953 inaugural parade for President Eisenhower was a fl oat known to its builders as " God's Float. " Added to the parade lineup at the last moment, when a parade offi cial noticed that the event might fail to represent the idea that " this was a nation whose people believed in God, " the fl oat was constructed to make that abstract point concrete. It was built around a " central e...