"God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, the courage to change the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference."** Progress towards the objectives of world health and peace depends upon many factors, especially upon the understanding and wishes of the people. That public health is people is suggested in the title of a popular book.t What each person may know an...

lEttErS to tHE MJM skills while creating a more caring environment for patients (2). In the care team, the physician using EI facilitates a healthy dialogue by attentive listening and, with adequate emotional serenity, harnesses and optimizes interpersonal relationships (3). An adequate control of emotions makes possible to be functional in every situation and to make rational decisions, thus a...

So, you want to visit the CELSS farms here in Luna City? I’m a farmer in that facility, and I’d be happy to show them to you. Perhaps we can complete our visit before midnight, when the year 2020 begins. (Because the lunar day is 29.530589 Earth days long, we keep Greenwich Earth time here.) As a matter of fact, we can celebrate New Year’s Eve with a meal in the mess hall based almost entirely ...

BACKGROUND Many general practitioners (GPs) are willing to provide end-of-life (EoL) home care for their patients. International research on GPs' approach to care in patients' final weeks of life showed a combination of palliative measures with life-preserving actions. AIM To explore the GP's perspective on life-preserving versus "letting go" decision-making in EoL home care. DESIGN Qualita...

BACKGROUND Most research on the impact of mind-body training does not ask about participants' baseline experience, expectations, or preferences for training. To better plan participant-centered mind-body intervention trials for nurses to reduce occupational stress, such descriptive information would be valuable. METHODS We conducted an anonymous email survey between April and June, 2010 of No...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the psychometric and structural properties of the Five Facets Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) among meditators, to develop a short form, and to examine associations of mindfulness with mental health and the mechanisms of mindfulness. METHODS Two independent samples were used, a German (n = 891) and a Spanish (n = 393) meditator sample, practicing various meditation s...

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to offer a view of emotional process during competition through a naturalistic video-assisted approach. This study provides descriptive evidence relating to the nature, frequency, co-occurrence, duration and direction of all the discrete emotions experienced by athletes while competing. Design: Qualitative video-assisted case study. Methods: Thirty self...

Since the late 1990s there has been an increasing discussion over the ‘rights of the dead’ and the ethics of storing and displaying human remains in British museums, and academics and museum professionals have questioned what should be done with them when they are discovered (e.g. Bahn 1984; Parker Pearson 1999, ch. 8; Swain 2002; Curtis 2003; Sanders 2009, 183–7; Alberti et al. 2009; Sayer 201...

. Recent observations by two different nadir pointing airborne radars with some linear polarization capabilities at times have detected surprisingly large linear clepolarization ratios in convective tropical rain. This depolarization cm be explained if the rain is considered to be a mixture of a group of apparent spheres and another group of drops that are distorted in the horizontal plane perp...

541 SHAW’S FAMOUS REMARK encapsulates more dimensions of my attitude to the crusade against aging than may be initially apparent. Here I will elaborate on three. In an equally well-known remark, St. Francis of Assisi is reported to have said (albeit, presumably, in Latin): “Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to...