The purpose of the study was to identify subjective experiences that are characteristic of schizophrenia. A questionnaire for self-assessment of disturbances in several cognitive-perceptual areas (the Eppendorf Schizophrenia Inventory) was constructed and administered to first episode schizophrenia patients (SCHf; n = 45), negative-syndrome schizophrenia patients (SCHn; n = 45), remitted schizo...

The concept of self-care is multidimensional, with many defining elements. This paper describes the origin of this comprehensive concept. It examines the response of the nursing discipline to citizen self-care initiatives and the subsequent effects this response has had on the development of nursing knowledge. The evolution of self-care as a core concept within Canadian health policy is present...

Some remarkable examples of alternative cosmological theories are reviewed here, ranging from a compilation variations on the Standard Model through more distant quasi-steady-state cosmology, plasma or universe models as hypersphere, to most exotic cases including static models. The present-day standard model Lambda-CDM, gives us representation cosmos whose dynamics is dominated by gravity with...