Recent theories of concepts have raised the issue of how people combine simple concepts (like engine and repalr) to form complex concepts (like engine repalr). This article approaches this issue by asking how people comprehend modified noun phrases of this sort. One explanation of how complex concepts are understood (the feature weighting model) provides a simple mechanism in which the primary ...

substance use is one of the important health problems in the world. the present study aimed to test the structural relations of religious involvement, negative beliefs about substance, spiritual well-being and smoking in a sample of university students. five hundred and four male and female students of kharazmi university, faculty of agriculture of tehran university and islamic azad university ...

BACKGROUND During the last two decades, there have been spiritual/religious interventions in cancer patients to prevent or treat a range of physical problems, including managing chronic pain, coping with the disease, boosting hope and mental health. Although societies are of different faiths and belief systems, what they all share is spirituality. OBJECTIVES Upon this we put forward the hypot...

conclusions: considering bed as one of the most vital physical, mental, and emotional needs, it is very important in mental and spiritual well-being of hemodialysis patients as an influencing factor in mental relaxation and reducing disease tensions. paying attention to sleep quality and spiritual well-being components of hemodialysis patients in formulating and promoting healthcare programs is...

The purpose of the study is to propose an approach definition or construction mythology Russian North, considering concept not as a single model in conjunction with its symbolic component, but refer North multi-component concept, and trace on example one regions - Komi Republic. scientific novelty lies fact that we mythologeme result development quasi-shamanistic quasi-Christian performance. As...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To identify spiritual well-being and spiritual practices in women with gynecologic cancer. DESIGN Descriptive, cross-sectional. SETTING Urban and rural communities in southeast Florida. SAMPLE Convenience sample of 85 women (X age = 65.72 years) with some form of gynecologic cancer. METHODS Participants completed questionnaires to assess spiritual well-being and spiri...