We tend to act upon what we believe to be true. When we deal with the world, we do so in a way which retlects our view of the world. This view has largely been transmitted to us by those who have cared for us as children. Our parents and guardians bave shared with us a great deal of information including, to some degree, our methods for dealing with other sentient beings, both human and nonhuma...

Sociological approaches to risk and uncertainty are well-developed. These approaches have played an important role in analysing the significance of risk and uncertainty in modern social life. However, it is approaches based on rational actor perspectives in New Public Management that have become pre-eminent in handling social risks in recent UK policies. This paper tackles the puzzle of why soc...

Internet subculture is a form of popular culture that distinct from mainstream internet and embodies distinctive aesthetics values. It primarily characterized by circling stratification subjects, ulgarization contents, symbolization forms, utilitarianization market. In the context subculture, spiritual life contemporary college students presents triple alienation pattern, namely, mental emotion...

OBJECTIVES Death by suicide is widely held as an undesirable outcome. Most Western countries place emphasis on patient autonomy, a concept of controversy in relation to suicide. This paper explores the tensions between patients' rights and many societies' overarching desire to prevent suicide, while clarifying the relations between mental disorders, mental capacity, and rational suicide. METH...

siderably in the social sciences, particularly in economics, political science, and law (e.g., Morrow 1994; Posner 1998; Sunstein 1999). In sociology, especially with the popularity of social capital theory, rational choice has gained traction as an individual-level theory of motivation compatible with macro-level theories of social structure (Coleman 1990). Nevertheless, skepticism in sociolog...

Background and Purpose: Heart disease death rates have increased worldwide.Family-oriented empowerment model improves the quality of life in the patients with chronic diseases. This study aims to determine the effect of family-oriented empowerment model on the life quality of the patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft. Methods: A quasi-experimental study was performed on the patien...

2.1 Series over a graded monoid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.1.1 Graded monoid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.1.2 Topology on K〈〈M〉〉 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Distance on K〈〈M〉〉 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....