Background: Filial piety is a fundamental virtue that defines children’s care-giving obligation to older parents in Chinese families. This study aims to evaluate whether gender difference exists in the expectation and receipt of filial piety among U.S Chinese older adults. Methods: Data were drawn from the PINE study, a population-based study of U.S. Chinese older adults aged 60 and above in th...

"The correlation between justice and organizational citizenship behavior and organizational identity among the nurses", aimed to correlate different aspects of personal feelings and organizational identity in a population of nurses. The population included all nurses working at hospitals affiliated to administry of health, treatment and medical education in Shahre-Kord (Iran) 2009. A sample con...

THE TASK OF INTERPRETING THE BIBLE NEVER ENDS. ALTHOUGH THE SCRIPTURES do not change, our interpretation and appropriation of them do. Often Christians have to rethink their understanding of a specific text or set of texts. For me this has occurred with regard to Mark 10:13-16, the familiar scene that depicts Jesus’ reception of the little children brought to him despite his disciples’ objectio...

The Occupy Istanbul game engages several topics pertaining to the relationship of the individual and the political sphere, including civic obedience, resistance against state power and citizen media. The project allows players to develop and test different strategies of (non)engagement, from being a passive bystander to violent activism. At the same time this decision is complicated by divergen...

We show that, assuming GCH, if κ is a Ramsey or a strongly Ramsey cardinal and F is a class function on the regular cardinals having a closure point at κ and obeying the constraints of Easton’s theorem, namely, F (α) ≤ F (β) for α ≤ β and α < cf(F (α)), then there is a cofinality preserving forcing extension in which κ remains Ramsey or strongly Ramsey respectively and 2δ = F (δ) for every regu...

In this paper we examine the resolvability of infinite designs. We show that in stark contrast to the finite case, resolvability for infinite designs is fairly commonplace. We prove that every t-(v, k,Λ) design with t finite, v infinite and k, λ < v is resolvable and, in fact, has α orthogonal resolutions for each α < v. We also show that, while a t-(v, k,Λ) design with t and λ finite, v infini...

General theory of elliptic hypergeometric series and integrals is outlined. Main attention is paid to the examples obeying properties of the “classical” special functions. In particular, an elliptic analogue of the Gauss hypergeometric function and some of its properties are described. Present review is based on author’s habilitation thesis [Spi7] containing a more detailed account of the subject.

A new handwriting model is proposed for simulating complex handwriting variation in obedience to individual handwriting tendencies. Individual handwriting t,endency is represented as a set of deformation rules each of which deforms one structure of pen movements. Characters are represented as hierarchical descriptions of pen movements, so that deformation rules for various types of pen movement...