Kant's Critical Hermeneutic of Prayer

A Critical Hermeneutic Analysis of Presence in Nursing Practice

Nursing presence, although it involves action at times, is a humanitarian quality of relating to a patient that is known to have powerful and positive implications for both nurse and patient. However, this phenomenon has not been well understood. Three theories, drawn from the work of Paul Ricoeur and Hans-Georg Gadamer, served as the boundaries for both data collection and analysis. The theori...

KANTS: Artifical Ant System for Classification

This paper investigates a new model that takes advantage of the cooperative self-organization of Ant Algorithms to evolve a naturally inspired pattern recognition (and also clustering) method. The approach considers each data item as an ant that changes the environment as it moves through it. The algorithm is successfully applied to well-known classification problems and yields better results t...

Efficacy of Prayer

A child praying before lunch, 1936 Determining the efficacy of prayer has been attempted in various studies since Francis Galton first addressed it in 1872. Some studies have reported benefit, some have reported harm, and some have found no benefit from the act of praying. Others suggest that the topic is outside the realm of science altogether. According to the Washington Post, "...prayer is t...

the effect of using critical discourse analytical tools on the improvement of the learners level of critical thinking in reading comprehension

?it is of utmost priority for an experienced teacher to train the mind of the students, and enable them to think critically and correctly. the most important question here is that how to develop such a crucial ability? this study examines a new way to the development of critical thinking utilizing critical discourse analytical tools. to attain this goal, two classes of senior english la...

The Efficacy of Prayer