Background: Physicians may question their role in probing patients’ spiritual distress and the practicality of addressing such issues in the time-limited clinical encounter. Yet, patients’ spirituality often influences treatment choices during a course of serious illness. A practical, evidence-based approach to discussing spiritual concerns in a scope suitable to a physician-patient relationshi...

We examine patterns of participation in an educational environment that exists solely for the purpose of providing help to those in distress. FreeMathHelp.com is a free, open, online homework help forum that is staffed by volunteers worldwide to help students to complete homework assignments in mathematics. We focus our attention on tutoring exchanges that concern related rates problems, a topi...

In the context of technologies development aiming at helping aged people to live independently at home, the CIRDO project aims at implementing an ASR system into a social inclusion product designed for elderly people in order to detect distress situations and provide capability to call for help. In this context we present a system able to detect distress and call for help sentences on line.

The landscape of the environment we live in is an image of our common humanity. The sense of place individuals and people as a whole have is both a biological response to the surrounding physical environment and a cultural creation. People get attached to places that are critical to their well-being or cause them distress. This paper sketches the story of ‘ Sahet Alqaryoun’ , a public open spac...

It is critical to build an effective prediction model to improve the accuracy of financial distress prediction. Some existing literatures have demonstrated that single classifier has limitations and combination of multiple prediction methods has advantages in financial distress prediction. In this paper, we extend the research of multiple predictions to integrate with rough set and Dempster–Sha...

The financial crisis of 2007/08 has demonstrated that factors for financial distress of large parts of the economy depend to a large extent on the interrelations between the financial institutions. Risks threatening the financial sector can be decomposed into risks based in the individual factors for single institutions and risks which can be attributed to the financial system as a whole. This ...

Tiie appeal made in our last issue, in behalf of a brotherMedico in distress, has, to a certain extent, been responded to, but it has not jet been acknowledged as it ought to be. We would again urge our friends to combine, with cordiality, in this matter. Wo are perfectly aware that it is often inconvenient and even troublesome in India to transmit small sums of money from a distance ; but we s...

Premarital cohabitation has consistently been found to be associated with increased risk for divorce and marital distress in the United States. Two explanations for this ‘‘cohabitation effect’’ are discussed: selection and experience. We present an empirically based view of how the experience of cohabitation may increase risk for relationship distress or divorce for some people beyond what is a...

Attachment theory is a powerful framework for understanding affect regulation. In this article, we examine the role played by attachment orientation in shaping emotional reactions to interpersonal transactions within close relationships. Using our recent integrative model of attachment-system activation and dynamics as a guide (M. Mikulincer & P. R. Shaver, 2003), we review relevant evidence, p...