The history of research in North America suggests that we already know when people arrived in the continental US: about 11,500 C yr BP. Research also suggests that people were in the southern cone of South America by a comparable age, if not earlier. If the New World was colonized by Late Pleistocene migrants from Asia via the Bering Strait, then the earliest sites should be in North not South ...

abstract joy, happiness and pleasure are natural inclinations and traits in all human beings. on the other hand, the modern man is beleaguered with mental and psychological stress and tensions which deprive them of those happy and joyous states. the present study aims to compare happiness as viewed by islam and modern psychology. this is a library research study which primarily attempts to expl...

Liaqat Ali 1,2, Saeed Islam 1, Taza Gul 1, Ilyas Khan 3, L. C. C. Dennis 4,∗ , Waris Khan5 and Aurangzeb Khan 6 1 Department of Mathematics, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan 23200, KPK, Pakistan; [email protected] (L.A.); [email protected] (S.I.); [email protected] (T.G.) 2 Department of Electrical Engineering, CECOS University, Peshawer 25000, KPK, Pakistan 3 Department of Mathem...

This paper summarizes theoretical perspectives from psychology supportive of a healing effect of faith. First, faith is defined as a congruence of belief, trust, and obedience in relation to God or the divine. Second, evidence for a faith-healing association is presented, empirically and in theory. To exemplify religiously sanctioned affirmation of such a connection, selected passages are cited...

The term self-transcendence has been used to refer both to a process of movement beyond one’s immediate self-boundaries, and to a quality which emerges as a result of this process, culminating in a broadened worldview. Self-transcendence has appeared as a key theme in several disciplines including transpersonal psychology, personality theory, and nursing theory. The scarcity of widely accepted ...

Scientific comparative psychology in America dates from the mid-1890s, but there is a body of earlier literature on the topic, written during a period of theistic debates over Darwinian evolution. The anthropologist Lewis H. Morgan rejected instinct as an explanation of animal behavior in 1843 and defended the mental similarities between animals and humans, although he was not an evolutionist. ...

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the evolutionary pattern of international research collaborations. Using publication data from 1997 to 2012, this study decomposes international collaborations into two complementary types, intra-collaboration (within the same geographical area) and inter-collaboration (across different geographical areas). Our results show that the geographical concentra...

Empirical research has ignored the effects of poverty on adolescent religion even though children are far more likely than adults to live in poverty in the United States. The current research demonstrates considerable differences in the religious activities and religious viewpoints of poor and non-poor American teenagers. Analysis of National Study of Youth and Religion survey data shows that w...

Using 1994-1995 and 2002-2003 data, Nieswiadomy (1998, 2006) found that economics majors scored well on the LSAT. These results are frequently posted on university web sites by Economics and other departments. This note, which updates the prior studies using current 2007-2008 data for the 2008-2009 class of students entering law school, finds that Economics majors still perform at or near the t...

Background Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) offers the possibility to measure local and regional indices of aortic function. However calculations of these indices usually require blood pressure (BP) values. Up to now, because of its easier availability, brachial BP was used instead of local aortic pressure. The SphygmoCor Xcel system (AtCor Medical, Australia) estimates aortic pressure noninvas...