background : improving quality of life (qol) has been an important consideration in patients with chronic diseases such as cancer particularly in last two decades. praying is a valuable nursing care to improve cancer patients’ qol. however, controversies still exist about the effect of different types of praying. this study was conducted to compare the impact of private and collective praying o...

Previous research has indicated that the physical actions of prayer are especially salient for preschool-aged children, and children in this age range tend to associate prayer with communicating with God. As the context in which children learn about new concepts impacts on how children come to understand those concepts, and children are often introduced to the concept of God through prayer, the...

Introduction. Knowing that someone was entangled with cancer is a surprising experience for that person. Being aware of having cancer not only makes the person loose his hopes and ambitions, but also influences his body and mental. Meanwhile, religion can play the proper role of complementary treatment, increasing life expectancy in these patients. Objective. The study was conducted with the ai...

This paper documents a divergence in the duration of rule for monarchs in Western Europe and the Islamic world beginning in the medieval period. While leadership tenures in the two regions were similar in 700 CE, Christian kings became increasingly long-lived compared to Muslim sultans. To better understand the roots of this divergence, we investigate the empirical relevance of an historical li...

The mid-eighth-century Old Irish text known as the poems of Blathmac is a long devotional composition meditating on mystery Christ’s cross and its significance for salvation history. Since discovery subsequent publication nearly six decades ago, work has garnered considerable scholarly interest linguistic socio-historical value, but many aspects orientation remain less systematically explored. ...

Nine polymorphic microsatellite loci were characterized from an enrichment library of the Australian praying mantid Ciulfina rentzi, a group with a unique reproductive morphology and behaviour. The number of alleles per locus ranged from three to 16 and heterozygosity from 0.24 to 0.94. These markers are the first microsatellites developed for any praying mantid. They will be useful for paterni...

the purpose of this paper is to survey of muslim consumer behavior with respect to a given portfolio. in other words, in this paper, a set of specified assets with returns in certain state be considered as the individual's budget constraint. in this regard, factors affecting the portfolio selection by the individual in islamic economics will be discussed. also the subject of consumption in...

to praise and worship the god is an essential part of abrahamic religions (e.g., judaism, christianity, and islam); but in islam, this religious practice, in form of praying (salat) is a cornerstone of muslims everyday life. in spite of religious importance of praying and the emphasize of islamic jurisprudence (fiqhe) on it, in real sphere of muslims life, especially in iran as a islamic countr...