Eat, Swim, Pray

COTS Integration: Plug and Pray?

135 Management F or most software applications, the use of commercial off-the-shelf products has become an economic necessity. Gone are the days when upsized industry and government information technology organizations had the luxury of trying to develop—and, at greater expense, maintain—their own database, network, and user-interface management infrastructure. Viable COTS products are climbing...

Incorporating religious practice in marital interventions: To pray or not to pray?

To pray or not to pray: considering gender and religious concordance in praying with the ill.

Analysis of Covariance was conducted on quantitative data collected by chaplains from January 2005 to December 2008. Data from 82 Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant chaplains, consisting of 53 CPE students and 29 professional chaplains were used in this study. Overall, chaplains exhibited a statistically significant higher rate of prayer with patients from their own religion (religious concordanc...

Muslim children with autism learn to pray.

Erythrocyte: Bacteria killer and bacteria pray

Erythrocyte is human blood main bactericidal cell. During movement in blood stream erythrocytes are triboelectrically charged by rubbing to each other and vessel walls and this charge automatically attracts and keeps bacteria on erythrocyte surface. Bacteria fixation on erythrocyte membrane activates the receptors of the membrane and stimulates trans membrane releasing of oxygen from oxyhemoglo...