For physicians, burnout is the inevitable consequence of the way that medical education is organised and the subsequent maladaptive behaviours that are reinforced in healthcare organisations via the hidden curriculum. Thus, burnout is an important indicator of how the organisation itself is functioning. A central theme in this paper will be the degree to which the organisational systems are res...

This paper reports on the development, validity, and reliability of a self-report instrument designed to assess a respondent's perspective of pain resulting from relational violations and work toward relational forgiveness based on a framework proposed by Hargrave (1994a). Presented here is the five-stage procedure used in the development of the Interpersonal Relationship Resolution Scale. Cons...

The orthodox Anglican Church practice of baptism from the sixteenth Century required the parents to bring the child to church, on a day of public worship, where the ceremony would be conducted by an ordained clergyman. An upper limit of 14 days after birth was stipulated for this ceremony from about 1650 onwards. The urgency implicit in this rule related to the theological concern of the church...

Physicians' narratives of their own experiences of illness can be a kind of empathic bridge across the divide between a professional healer and a sick patient. This essay considers ways in which physicians' narratives of their own and family members' experiences of cancer shape encounters with patients and patients' experiences of illness. It analyzes ethical dimensions of physicians' narrative...

This study examines the process by which perceptions of conversational flow foster an emergent sense of group entitativity. We propose that conversational flow influences more than just the quality of interpersonal relations: it signals entitativity - social unity at the group level. We predicted that when conversations are intermitted by brief silences after a target has spoken, this is percei...

This paper outlines a truth-conditional view of logical form, that is, a view according to which logical form is essentially a matter of truth-conditions. Section 1 provides some preliminary clarifications. Section 2 shows that the main motivation for the view is the fact that fundamental logical relations such as entailment or contradiction can formally be explained only if truth-conditions ar...

We review some of the salient results presented at this Workshop, together with some comments on the underlying physics, and the proposed facilities for future experiments. ISN 93–17 February 5, 2008. Invited talk at the Workshop on Spin and Flavour in Hadronic and Electromagnetic Interactions, Turin, September 1992, to appear in the Proceedings SPIN AND FLAVOUR: CONCLUDING REMARKS

3 Preliminaries 5 3.1 Rational Preference Relations (RPRs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.2 Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.3 Choice Sets, Choice Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.4 Social Choice Functions (SCFs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.5 Social Welfare F...

The estimation of the decoherence process of an open quantum system is of both theoretical significance and experimental appealing. Practically, the decoherence can be easily estimated if the coherence evolution satisfies some simple relations. We introduce a framework for studying evolution equation of coherence. Based on this framework, we prove a simple factorization relation (FR) for the l1...

Chronic hypoxia attenuates soluble guanylate cyclase-induced vasorelaxation in serotonin (5-HT)-contracted ovine carotid arteries. Because protein kinase G (PKG) mediates many effects of soluble guanylate cyclase activation through phosphorylation of multiple kinase targets in vascular smooth muscle, we tested the hypothesis that chronic hypoxia reduces the ability of PKG to phosphorylate its t...