The absence of a common understanding of attention plagues current research on the topic. Combining the findings from three domains of research on attention, this paper presents a univocal account that fits normal use of the term as well as its many associated phenomena: attention is a process of mental selection that is within the control of the subject. The role of the subject is often exclud...

background : in spite of much literature written about the theory-practice gap in the international nursing journals, there is evidence that indicates this subject has not been probed comprehensively since nursing education was transferred to universities in iran.  in the recent years, the public and the government have criticized iranian nurses because of poor quality of patient care. although...

The successive iteration (started by Lagrange and Gauss) produces a new mean from two given ones. Several examples of matrix means are given that require the proof of the matrix monotonicity of the corresponding representing function. The paper contains extensions of the logarithmic mean and it is obtained that the Stolarsky mean can be used also for matrices. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classific...

In this paper we retrieve slow oscillation of a real sequence fromCesàro summability of its generator sequence under some one-sided condition. References[1] F. Dik, Tauberian theorems for convergence and subsequential convergence with moderatelyoscillatory behavior, Math. Morav. 5: 19–56 (2001).[2] M. Dik, Tauberian theorems for sequences with moderately oscillatory control modu...

In this paper we introduce a sharpening of the Parikh mapping and investigate its basic properties. The new mapping is based on square matrices of a certain form. The classical Parikh vector appears in such a matrix as the second diagonal. However, the matrix product gives more information about a word than the Parikh vector. We characterize the matrix products and establish also an interesting...

In classical sociology, there is a sharp separation between the superstructure reflecting cultural ideals and the concrete Structural Base (SB). The authors hypothesize a Doxical Superstructure (DS) in its own space at a higher level, containing concepts such as completeness, necessity and possibility associated with abstract concepts like beliefs, ethics, knowledge, relations and science. The ...

In this paper we construct explicit solutions and calculate the corresponding τ -function to the system of Schlesinger equations describing isomonodromy deformations of 2 × 2 matrix linear ordinary differential equation whose coefficients are rational functions with poles of the first order; in particular, in the case when the coefficients have four poles of the first order and the correspondin...