A contemporary orientation of the hospital experience model must encompass the clients' religious-spiritual dimension. The objective of this paper is to share a previous experience, highlighting at least five reasons hospitals should invest in this direction, and an equal number of steps required to achieve it. In the first part, the text discourses about five reasons to invest in religious-spi...

Evidence for a relation between neuroticism and religion is scarce and inconsistent. The aims of the present study were to determine the association of religious upbringing with adult neuroticism scores and to examine the effect of religious upbringing on the heritability of neuroticism. As part of a longitudinal survey of twin families from the Netherlands Twin Register, data were collected on...

This is a collaborative research project with the University of Washington (Axel Schweiger, PI). Its purpose is to examine the role of sea-ice and cloud interactions in the retreat of the seasonal ice zone (SIZ). As sea ice retreats further, changes in lower atmospheric temperature, humidity, winds, and clouds are likely to result from changed sea ice concentrations and ocean temperatures. Thes...

The sensitivity of the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the forthcoming GLAST mission will be so much greater than previous high-energy γ-ray missions that small molecular clouds at intermediate and high Galactic latitudes (|b| > 10) will be detected in the light of diffuse γ-ray emission from cosmic-ray interactions. These clouds are small, typically subtending less than 1 with masses ∼10–100 sol...

The advent of new satellite missions, ground-based instrumentation networks, and the development of whole atmosphere models over the past decade resulted in a paradigm shift in understanding the variability of geospace, that is, the region of the atmosphere between the stratosphere and several thousand kilometers above ground where atmosphere-ionosphere-magnetosphere interactions occur. It has ...

ALTEC facility is becoming an international centre of excellence and candidate Mission Control Center for planetary robotic missions and authors are actually in the process of setting the requirements for the ground segment infrastructure and Mission Control Centre for robotic missions to the Moon and Mars. The paper gives a general overview of the new studies ALTEC is performing to collect kno...

A key element of NASA’s future space exploration is high precision formation flying (FF) for space interferometry. Precision FF has never been attempted before and poses new and significant challenges to the underlying control system. While the guidance and control (G&C) methodologies of single spacecraft for traditional planetary flyby and orbiter missions are well-understood, the G&C of FF mi...

NASA’s exploration goals are focused on deep space travel and Mars surface operations. To accomplish these goals, large structures will be necessary to transport crew and logistics in the initial stages, and NASA will need to keep the crew and the vehicle safe during transport and any surface activities. One of the major challenges of deep space travel is the space radiation environment and its...

Genesis will be NASA's first robotic sample return mission. The purpose of this mission is to collect solar wind samples for two years in an £ 1 halo orbit and return them to the Utah Test and Training Range {UTTR) for mid-air retrieval by helicopters. To do this, the Genesis spacecraft makes an excursion into the region around £ 2 . This transfer between £ 1 and L 2 requires no deterministic m...

Priming has emerged as a valuable tool within the psychological study of religion, allowing for tests of religion's causal effect on a number of psychological outcomes, such as prosocial behavior. As the literature has grown, questions about the reliability and boundary conditions of religious priming have arisen. We use a combination of traditional effect-size analyses, p-curve analyses, and a...