(1) Use of vague, exaggerated or untestable claims—including: (a) assertion of imprecise claims and (b) use of obscurantist language. (2) Over-reliance on confirmation rather than refutation—including: (a) assertion of claims that cannot be falsified in the event that they are incorrect; (b) over-reliance on testimonials and anecdotes; (c) selective use of experimental evidence. (3) Lack of ope...

Prof. Rekha Labade provided a brief report on IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Committee Promoting Equality (COPE) activities in Region 10, at the AP-S Amrutvahini College of Engineering, Sangamner, Chapter. Through COPE project, Chapter donated virtual reality (VR) headsets to Sangram Niwasi Muk Badhir Vidyalaya school, one prominent institutes Maharashtra, India, working with hear...

The Bianchi Stress Questionnaire was built and validated to assess the stress level of hospital nurses. The questionnaire is selfapplicable, composed of 51 items, and divided into six subscales, each receiving a score that ranges from 1 to 7. Subscales are composed of activities that involve nursing care and management. The use of this questionnaire highlights the most stressing subscale for ei...

Canadian Aboriginal youth show high rates of excessive drinking, hopelessness, and depressive symptoms. We propose that Aboriginal adolescents with higher levels of hopelessness are more susceptible to depressive symptoms, which in turn predispose them to drinking to cope-which ultimately puts them at risk for excessive drinking. Adolescent drinkers (n = 551; 52% boys; mean age = 15.9 years) fr...

Repeated use of alcohol as a coping strategy to reduce anxiety or discomfort increases one's risk of developing alcohol dependence. Previous studies have found alcohol outcome expectancies (AOE) strongly predict drinking behavior, in general, and also are related to drinking to cope. The purpose of the current study was to examine AOE that may be related to drinking to cope with discomfort in s...

The present study is an examination of the influence of cultural background on the ways in which the aged cope with loneliness. Thirty-six participants from Canada and 105 from Portugal (60-83 years old) answered an 86-item questionnaire which examined the beneficial strategies which they used to cope with loneliness. The strategies which were examined included Acceptance and Reflection, Self-D...

BACKGROUND Patients with sickle cell disease cope with their disease in various ways, such as psychological counseling, hypnosis, medication, and prayer. Spirituality is a coping mechanism in a variety of diseases. This study evaluates the role of spirituality in patients coping with the pain of sickle cell disease. METHODS Seventy-one patients from the Georgia Sickle Cell Clinic completed a ...

a theoretical study of the kinetic and mechanism of 3-aug-cope rearrangement in gas phase was performed usingdet methods at b3lyp levels of theory with 6-3114ig(d,p) bass set at 298.i5k. equilibrium moleculargeometries and harmonic vibrational frequencies of the reactant, transition state did product were calculated. then,rate constant and activation thermodynamics parameters were calculated an...

During their common time in Austria (and Germany), Fritz Heider and Egon Brunswik knew each other quite well, meeting for professional interchange of their ideas and thoughts, which they mutually highly respected (compare the late autobiography by Heider, 1983). They both worked on problems of how the human being copes with his environment; later on (in the early 50s), they both were regarded a...

This paper presents a diagnostic technique that subsumes two complementary approaches to diagnosis of discrete-event systems (DESs), namely the diagnoser approach and the active system approach. The more significant shortcomings of such approaches are, on the one side, the need for the generation of the global system model and, on the other, the completion of the system observation before start...