In order to elucidate cultural correlates of utilization of primary health services by young adult men, we investigated religion in which one was raised and service utilization. Using data from a national survey we tested the hypothesis that religion raised predicts access to and utilization of a regular medical care provider, examinations, HIV and other STD testing and counseling at ages 18-44...

Often religion and spirituality are used interchangeably. Spirituality may or may not include religion, which is related to an organized institution. Spirituality on the other hand is the transcendent relationship between the person and a higher being, a quality that goes beyond a specific religious application (Peterson & Nelson 1989). Both religion and spirituality offer a sense of meaning an...

The search for fast unitary transforms and the need for data compression in linear systems are complementary issues. Compression requires the definition of a threshold dependent on the condition number, which is invariant over the unitary group. With respect tot this threshold it is shown that the SVD is the optimal tool. Considerations in connection with the Kronecker product and direct sum of...

A unitary (Euclidean) representation of a quiver is given by assigning to each vertex a unitary (Euclidean) vector space and to each arrow a linear mapping of the corresponding vector spaces. We recall an algorithm for reducing the matrices of a unitary representation to canonical form, give a certain description of the representations of canonical form, and reduce the problem of classifying Eu...

We consider pseudo-unitary quantum systems and discuss various properties of pseudounitary operators. In particular we prove a characterization theorem for block-diagonalizable pseudo-unitary operators with finite-dimensional diagonal blocks. Furthermore, we show that every pseudo-unitary matrix is the exponential of i = √ −1 times a pseudo-Hermitian matrix, and determine the structure of the L...

There is increasing interest within psychiatry on the role of religion and spirituality in mental health. Perusing the studies, it is striking that, with very few exceptions, they focus on spirituality and religion combined. Studies examining either religion or spirituality are rare. Yet for those interested in this area, it is surely important to ascertain which aspects of mental health and il...

Science and religion have been in conflict for hundreds of years as each claims domain over similar territory. Once the heavens had much more religious significance as Galileo found to his dismay. Over time the heavens have been demystified so that now space is more a new region of exploration than veneration for most. The conflict over evolution vs. creation continues 150 years after Darwin, a...

This paper focuses on the relationships between schizophrenia and religion, on the basis of a review of literature and the data of an ongoing study about religiousness and spiritual coping conducted among outpatients with chronic schizophrenia. Religion (including both spirituality and religiousness) is salient in the lives of many people suffering from schizophrenia. However, psychiatric resea...