Narcissism is a personality trait associated with an inflated, grandiose self-concept and a lack of intimacy in interpersonal relationships. A popular assumption is that narcissists’ positive explicit (conscious) self-views mask implicit (nonconscious) self-loathing. This belief is typically traced to psychodynamic theory, especially that of Kohut (1966; Morrison, 1983). Empirically, this view ...

Even after heat soaking, toughened glass is liable to a few apparently spontaneous failures, generally attributed to incomplete conversion of nickel sulphide inclusions. Another alternative is explored here: even with full conversion, inevitably some of these inclusions are too small to fail in the heat soak, but may cause failures at unexpectedly low loads in service. Taking this into account ...

Given a non-negative integer k, we construct a lattice 3-simplex P with the following property: The affine semigroup QP associated to P is not normal, and every element q ∈ QP \ QP has lattice distance at least k above every facet of QP .

A systematic method of designing TSC checker for Q class (even code length) of Borden’s code [l] is proposed, where a modular approach is used. In a comparative study, it is found that the proposed method is much better than [2,3] and it has a larger capability than [4,5] in designing the checker. For instance, the 3/12 code in C(12,2) can be identified in one of four ways, corresponding to PT’...

Surveys suggest that most patients have a spiritual life and regard their spiritual health and physical health as equally important. Furthermore, people may have greater spiritual needs during illness. We reviewed published studies, meta-analyses, systematic reviews, and subject reviews that examined the association between religious involvement and spirituality and physical health, mental heal...

The irruption of severe mental distress into the life of an individual determines a deep biographical disruption. To cope with this crisis, individuals are involved in a laborious sense-making activity, through the composition of narratives intended to create a new link between past, present and future. This essay analyses the sense-making strategies that follow this dramatic experience through...

Although dental foci can be sources of bacteremia and bacterial endocarditis, hematogenous spread of infection presented with septic pulmonary embolism apparently is rare. The occurrence of septic pulmonary embolism in patients with periodontal disease without suppurative thrombophlebitis of the great vessels of the neck is well documented but to our knowledge, there is no report on septic pulm...

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks have revolutionized Computer Go. Large networks have emerged as state-of-the-art models for move prediction and are used not only as stand-alone players but also inside Monte Carlo Tree Search to select and bias moves. Using neural networks inside the tree search is a challenge due to their slow execution time even if accelerated on a GPU. In this paper we eva...

the present article studies the quran's view on free will and freedom. some related issues discussed here are: (1) human freedom is the basis of the creation; (2) respecting human freedom is the basis of the prophet's invitation of the people to islam; (3) political freedom is the foundation of forming political societies, and so on. with reference to the quranic verses and moslem sch...