Through a correlational study, the researcher observed the relationship between the degree of post-divorce adjustment and the use of religious coping mechanisms among young adults with divorced parents. Fourteen participants (11 women, 3 men) ranged in age from 17 to 21 years (M = 19.14). By correlating responses to the Child Divorce Adjustment Inventory, the Religious Coping Scale, and the Chi...

Solar retinopathy is a condition that can result from focusing the eye(s) on the sun, and usually follows the independent viewing of a solar eclipse. It has also been reported after direct sun-gazing, in anti-aircraft lookouts (Flynn, 1942; Cordes, I944, I948), in military recruits hoping to obtain discharge from service (Ewald and Ritchey, I970), in hospitalized schizophrenic patients (Anacler...

The need to belong can motivate belief in God. In Study 1, 40 undergraduates read bogus astrophysics articles "proving" God's existence or not offering proof. Participants in the proof-for-God condition reported higher belief in God (compared to control) when they chronically imagined God as accepting but lower belief in God when they imagined God as rejecting. Additionally, in Study 2 (72 unde...

Violent people often claim that God sanctions their actions. In two studies, participants read a violent passage said to come from either the Bible or an ancient scroll. For half the participants, the passage said that God sanctioned the violence. Next, participants competed with an ostensible partner on a task in which the winner could blast the loser with loud noise through headphones (the ag...

Background: The onset of primary progressive multiple sclerosis (PPMS) can be triggered by sun exposure and physical activity. The present study aimed to determine the risk of sun exposure and physical activity in PPMS development. Methods: The case-control study recruited PPMS cases and healthy controls from the general population from September 2019 to September 2020 in Tehran, Iran. The sel...

In der Biometrie bezeichnet „multimodal“ die Verwendung von mehreren biometrischen Verfahren zur Authentifizierung von Personen. Multimodalität umfasst jedoch nur ein Teil der Möglichkeiten, Ergebnisse in einem biometrischen System zu kombinieren. Dieser Artikel zeigt weitere Methoden der Multibiometrie. Darüber hinaus wird dargestellt, auf welchen Ebenen Fusionen von (Zwischen-)Ergebnissen erf...

Akhenaten was one of Egypt's most controversial pharaohs, in part because of his strange appearance in images produced after he had declared Aten, the Sun-disc, his one-and-only god. Whether these were symbolic representations or realistic ones that indicate a deforming genetic disorder is the subject of continuing debate. The authors present evidence that the bizarre physical features portraye...