"Phenomenological critique attempts to retrieve the lived experience of a human community alienated from its truthful condition and immersed in historical crises brought by processes objectification estrangement. This introductory article challenges two methodological assumptions that are largely shared North American Critical Phenomenology: definition phenomenology as first person approach rej...

Five case studies are presented of hospitals which have become involved in developing community-oriented programs for elderly persons. The reasons behind the new hospital interest in the elderly are complex, ranging from idealistic to self-interested reasons. Major actors involved in initiating interest in hospitals varies greatly from hospital to hospital. Advantages and disadvantages of hospi...

objective: to determine marital satisfaction and its influencing factors among fertile and infertile women in shahroud. materials and methods: in this comparative study, 1528 participants (511 infertile and1017 fertile women) were evaluated using enrich marital satisfaction scale. data were analyzed using chi-square and t-test. results: a total of 1402 participants (78.7%) had high marital sati...

It matters what world understanding we base educational theory and practice on. If it on an inherited Holocene scenic human-centered understanding, this leads to education understood as learning optimize the use of resources only solely for human needs. we, other hand, emerging Anthropocene dialogical life-centered supporting students become aware possibilities value being together with more-th...

Gibran Khalil is one of the few Lebanese authors who has bridged East and West justifiably considered a citizen world. His book highly estimated prose poems, The Prophet most widely read books 20th century. It reveals Gibran’s philosophy about different aspects life, mainly precept in Gospel Matthew importance human sense mutuality which summarizes Christian’s duty towards his/her neighbor stat...

In this conceptual article the topic of "Prospective Ergonomics" will be discussed within the context of innovation, design thinking and design processes & methods. Design thinking is essentially a human-centred innovation process that emphasises observation, collaboration, interpretation, visualisation of ideas, rapid concept prototyping and concurrent business analysis, which ultimately influ...