introduction: working in the complex and ever changing healthcare settings forces the nurses and nursing students to be equipped with lifelong learning skills. one of the lifelong learning skills is self-directed learning. this study aimed to explore the m.sc. nursing students’ self-directed learning activities. methods: a qualitative design using conventional content analysis approach was used...

In formal design, decoupling means to make the features of a formal system as independent as possible from each other. Decoupling tends to make the features semantically more primitive and the overall system more general. Quite opposite to decoupling, the tradition in object oriented refinement theories is to combine all features, such as specification, usage constraints, encapsulation and inhe...

among the traditions concerning the signs of wisdom, there is a tradition related from imam al-ṣādiq (a.s.) introducing the person wearing a long beard, the signet of his ring, and his nickname, as indications of his lack of wisdom. while examining the sanad and text of this tradition, the article seeks to find out the real source of this saying and the various possibilities about the source an...

Twentieth-century philosophical and psychological thought about emotion effectively started with the work of William James. While for much of the second half of that century, James’s work had definitely fallen out of favour, recently there have been definite signs of a revival.1 Such a positive re-evaluation is, I believe, welldeserved, as James’s approach to emotion has many under-appreciated ...

A growing number of studies investigate the relationship between narcissism and political orientation. This study uses an undergraduate sample from Turkey to explore this relation for a relatively understudied population. Given findings that link basic human values orientation, we also possibility mediating role in relation. Leftwing orientation is weakly negatively correlated with narcissism’s...