In a salutary contribution to debates about spirituality in medicine, Kuczewski (2007) raises the question of whether “hard and fast rules” are suited to the subject of dialogue about spiritual matters. Those who argue that physicians should not engage patients’ spiritual concerns still suggest physicians should at least consider those concerns, and those who encourage physicians to assess and ...

One reason for the poor pitch performance in current cochlear-implant users may be the highly synchronized neural firing in electric hearing that lacks stochastic properties of neural firing in normal acoustic hearing. This study used three different electric stimulation patterns, jittered, probabilistic, and auditory-model-generated pulses, to mimic some aspects of the normal neural firing pat...

A cross-sectional study was conducted to evaluate use of complementary medicine by cancer patients, in two comprehensive clinics, in Tehran, Iran. This paper reports the results for breast cancer patients. Design: A specially designed questionnaire was completed for 177 breast cancer patients after informed consent was obtained. The Mean age of the participants was 47.61 years (SD= + 15.1) rang...

A cross-sectional study was conducted to evaluate use of complementary medicine by cancer patients, in two comprehensive clinics, in Tehran, Iran. This paper reports the results for breast cancer patients. Design: A specially designed questionnaire was completed for 177 breast cancer patients after informed consent was obtained. The Mean age of the participants was 47.61 years (SD= + 15.1) rang...

User community plays an important role in online trading platforms. It provides users a place to communicate, to solve problems and to exchange information with each other on an online trading platform which faced a bilateral market —seller and buyer participants. Beginning with the incentive strategy, this paper studies the influence of material and spiritual incentive strategies on online tra...

User community plays an important role in online trading platforms. It provides users a place to communicate, to solve problems and to exchange information with each other on an online trading platform which faced a bilateral market —seller and buyer participants. Beginning with the incentive strategy, this paper studies the influence of material and spiritual incentive strategies on online tra...

Diagnosis of breast cancer is a devastating psychological experience for a woman. Also, treatments such as radiation therapy may cause psychosocial distress in these patients and threaten their quality of life (QOL). Among several approaches, spirituality has been shown to be significantly associated with improving the QOL. The aim of this study was to assess the role of spiritual therapy inter...