The meaning maintenance model (MMM) proposes that people have a need for meaning; that is, a need to perceive events through a prism of mental representations of expected relations that organizes their perceptions of the world. When people's sense of meaning is threatened, they reaffirm alternative representations as a way to regain meaning-a process termed fluid compensation. According to the ...

INTRODUCTION The success of heart transplantation in prolonging life and well-being must be considered in reference to its psycho-social outcomes, which intrinsically affect the long-term post-transplant morbidity. Sense of coherence and emotional response to organ reception are important factors in this group of patients. THE AIM OF THIS STUDY The aim of this study was to assess the contribu...

we give some new results on sparse signal recovery in the presence of noise, forweighted spaces. traditionally, were used dictionaries that have the norm equal to 1, but, forrandom dictionaries this condition is rarely satised. moreover, we give better estimationsthen the ones given recently by cai, wang and xu.

Bu çalışmanın temel amacı, Aydınlanma projesinde ve Urfa örneğinde uyumlu yaşamın ipuçlarını ortaya koymaktır. örnekliği arasındaki ilişki tamamen aynı olmamakla birlikte ilginç benzerlikleri de içerisinde barındırmaktadır. Urfa, projesinin iddiasına karşın, herkesin birbirinin farklılıklarına saygı duyduğu bir yaşam olabilir. amaca ulaşmak için çalışma iki bölüme ayrılabilir. Birinci bölüm, ni...

Understanding the experiences of multicultural individuals is vital in our diverse populations. Multicultural people often need to navigate the different norms and values associated with their multiple cultural identities. Recent research on multicultural identification has focused on how individuals with multiple cultural groups manage these different identities within the self, and how this p...

This study tested the hypothesis that a personality disposition defined by a strong sense of coherence is associated with a reduced risk of mortality. The authors prospectively examined, for < or =6 years, the relation between a strong sense of coherence and mortality due to all causes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer among 20,579 participants aged 41-80 years from the European Prospective I...