How should the different identities (i.e., alters) that are thought to be typical for dissociative identity disorder (DID) be interpreted? Are they just metaphors for different emotional states or are they truly autonomous entities that are capable of willful action? This issue is important because it has implications for the way in which courts may handle cases that involve DID patients. Refer...

Since its founding in the 1960s, the Information Systems (IS) field has been involved in critical debates about the nature and future of the discipline. Many researchers feel that diversity in IS research is our strength; others fear that too much diversity leads to losing the field’s core identity. Do the scholarly contributions of the IS community reveal either of these two phenomena? In orde...

We show that Naming{ the existence of distinct IDs known to all{ is a hidden, but necessary, assumption of Herlihy's universality result for Consensus. We then show in a very precise sense that Naming is harder than Consensus and bring to the surface some important diierences existing between popular shared memory models which usually remain unnoticed.

the article provides a critical assessment of the more recent literature that relies on theoretical frameworks such as post modernism and globalization to deal with national identity, ethnicity and cultural mobility. explaining sensitive and complicated issues such as identity requires the extensive use of the native historical, cultural and sociological sources related to the iranian experienc...

introduction: spiritual identity, defined as self-identification based on spirituality and spiritual experiences, has gained increasing attention during the past few years. the aim of this study was to assess several predictors and outcomes of spiritual identity based on a causal model. methods: for this purpose, parent and peer attachment were considered as exogenous variables, spiritual ident...

This article critically interprets the multi-dimensional Asian American identity of Indians in terms their pan-ethnic formation as Americans through cultural assimilation or merging with host culture and retention holding on to identity. The identification Indian will be determined by pan-ethnicity, gender religion interview responses Americans, including Mar Thoma Church community, second-gene...