tadabbur (contemplation) is a specific term that the revealed word of allah has chosen exclusively for delving into the entire qur'an and has no other function except in qur'anology. in the qur'an sessions and sources as well as in the circles of exegesis, theology, and ethics there has been much talking of tadabbur and its roots, derivatives, and concept, but its conceptology in...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the stages of change in physical activity-related behavior (EMCRAF) and their association with gender and age. A total of 1108 high school students of both sexes, from Florianópolis, State of Santa Catarina, took part in this study. A questionnaire was used to assess EMCRAF. A higher proportion of boys were in the maintenance stage (48.1%) and a high...

Animals teach each other. For humans open to trans-species and inter-species dialogue interaction, animal-others offer important insights into, invocations of models for diverse alternative modes perceiving, experiencing, relating, being. They in turn challenge anthropocentric conceptions consciousness glimpses perhaps inspiration increased awareness presence. Might the current academic vogue “...

We extend the costly contemplation model to preferences over sets of lotteries, assuming that the state-dependent utilities are von Neumann-Morgenstern. The contemplation costs are uniquely pinned down in a reduced form representation, where the decision-maker selects a subjective measure over expected utility functions instead of a subjective signal over a subjective state space. We show that ...