Parametric models have been suggested as an alternative to conventional life table techniques for interpretation of observed survival patterns in cancer. This paper extends earlier work on breast cancer by studying the fit of Boag's lognormal model to the survival of 8,170 breast cancer cases reported to the Swedish Cancer Registry during 1961-1963. The model was also used to analyse the upward...

What does science say about the nature of mind? Are there many minds or just one that manifests itself through the individual’s experience? Do masks used in ritual or secular performance tell us something about the nature of mind? Is the archaic mind close, in some manner, to the sensibility of the postmodern age and where does the Indian evidence stand on it? How might ideas of mind’s powers a...

Chaplaincy Today • Volume 23 Number 2 • Autumn/Winter 2007 Medical practitioners and researchers continue to explore the association between spiritual/religious (SR) concerns and illness and medical care. Koenig et al. summarize over 1600 publications that describe this relationship. In a previous publication, we reported the statistically significant web of associations between the personal/pr...

the immortality of the rational soul is one of the most important issues of ibn sina’s philosophy and anthropology. he poses many arguments in proving this subject. ibn sina proves the immortality of rational soul by not having relation or position of the intelligible concepts, indefinite power of the rational soul in his actions as well as its needlessness to sensible faculties in some of its ...