background: treatment and illness management depends mostly on patient's performance in diseases and disorders such as diabetes. therefore, self-care has an important role in the health of these patients; they can affect their own welfare, functional capabilities, and illness processes by achieving self-care skills. today, self-care depends on individual, psychological and social factors, recog...

different cultural assumptions of “selfhood” in east and west cultures provide the individuated self-concept in west and collective self-concept in east, which in turn influence how individuals judge their well-being and mental health. while discussing how culture influences formation of self-concept, this paper examines the relationship between cultural pattern of collectivism and self-esteem ...

Both a self-certified public key and a verifiable self-certified public key need not be accompanied with a certificate to be authenticated by other users. To validate these public keys, it is required that key generation center’s public key trusted by users. If all users trust same key generation center, public key can be validated simply. But among users in different domains, trusty relationsh...