From the Book of Job, Chapter 38:1, 33–37: 1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the storm. He said: 33Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up God’s dominion over the earth? 34Can you raise your voice to the clouds and cover yourself with a flood of water? 35Do you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, “Here we are?” 36Who endowed the heart with wisdom or gave ...

There abound antagonisms in the health care practice and the religious beliefs of people from different societies. When health care practices cross the line of their beliefs, the people will rise to the occasion and oppose the practices. Religion and science are two opposing doctrines. What scientists believe sometimes collide with what different religious contexts uphold. An example where ther...

Are Muslim immigrants subjected to targeted opposition (i.e., Islamophobia) on their pathway to US citizenship? Using a list experiment and a representative sample of the US population, we compare explicit and implicit opposition to Muslim and Christian immigrants. We find that Muslim immigrants, relative to Christian immigrants, experience greater explicit resistance. However, when social desi...

The Christian Doppler Laboratory for Contextual Interfaces is a cooperative research lab dealing with interaction designs of contextual interfaces in the automotive area and the cleanroom of a semiconductor factory. This paper describes the research approach and example activities conducted in the laboratory.

Do we desire something because it has value? Or is the value of a thing a consequence of the fact that it is desired? To adopt the former alternative is to involve oneself in the task of providing a theory of value which would make value a property things have as it were prior to their serving as objects of desire. Theories of this sort have been developed inter alia by Meinong, Nicolai Hartman...

Around 1850 NOlWay experienced a spiritual awakening which motivated an important social awakening. People began to see the need to .care for the sick and the poor. The very thought of ~omen caring for sick people outside of their own ' families, and furthermore establishing a training course to do so, was unheard of and unacceptable in NOlWegian society at that time. However, many prayer group...