BACKGROUND Health promotion strategies ultimately rely on people perceiving the consequences of their behaviour as negative. If someone is indifferent towards death, it would logically follow that health promotion messages such as safe using messages would have little resonance. This study aimed to investigate attitudes towards death in a group of injecting drug users (IDUs) and how such attitu...

as one of the most important and fundamental concepts in the divine religions, eternity and immortality after death has always been paid too much attention by religious thinkers mainly muslim scholars and mystics from philosophical, mystical ,theological, and quranic approaches. since mulla sadra's transcendent theosophy is not far from islamic mysticism and even some parts of its general ...

Chromatin regulation plays an important role in brain development and the generation of phenotypic diversity. In this issue of Neuron, Jakobsson et al. find that disruption in neurons of KAP1, a key component of transcriptional repressor complexes in the brain, results in increased anxiety-like behavior and sensitivity to stress.

BACKGROUND The Alabama Child Parenting Questionnaire (APQ) is a multi-source and multi-method instrument created to assess the most relevant parenting practices from a bidirectional perspective. Despite its advantages, the APQ has not been validated with a Spanish population. The objective of this study was to analyse the psychometric properties and factor structure of the APQ, child self-repor...

Background: The new wave of nosocomial infections arising from various medical settings as well as other related environment has been of much concern for some time. The fact that blood and other fluids from patients are becoming increasingly hazardous to those who provide care for them had become of great concern to public health professionals the world over. This study was conducted to assess ...

the reader as one of the three angles of literary criticism triangle besides its two other angles i.e. the writer and literary work is considered as one of the effective factors in studying a  literary work in critical circles. some critics call him consumer on the one hand and producer on the other hand because of his interpretations and perceptions. accordingly, literary works are divided int...

I surveyed 60 hospice nurses regarding their knowledge and attitudes toward the near-death experience (NDE), using Thornburg's NearDeath Phenomena Knowledge and Attitudes Questionnaire. Most hospice nurses had previous work experience with an NDEr. Approximately half the nurses were knowledgeable about the NDE. All participants had a positive attitude toward near-death phenomena and toward cari...