OBJECTIVE The clergy in sub-Saharan Africa play a major role in the care and pathways to orthodox mental health services of the mentally ill. Their attitudes concerning mental illnesses would influence community mental health intervention efforts. This study aimed to determine the attitudes of clergy towards persons with mental illness. METHOD A cross-sectional survey of clergy (n = 107) of t...

Sweden, like many other countries, faces increasing problems related to mental ill-health. To address this problem the Swedish government developed a new health policy in 2015. This study ai...

For decades investors have sought to find ways of profiting off the billions public dollars spent annually on systems schooling across world. This interest has coincided with growing marketization schooling, especially in United States, as well increased use educational technologies (or EdTech). study examines implications profit-driven for politics and spatial practices schooling. Specifically...

For joint estimation of state variables and unknown parameters, adaptive observers usually assume some persistent excitation (PE) condition. In practice, the PE condition may not be satisfied, because underlying recursive problem is ill-posed. To remedy lack condition, inspired by ridge regression, this paper proposes a regularized observer with enhanced parameter adaptation gain. Like in typic...

Ill-conditioned matrices with block Toeplitz, Toeplitz block (BTTB) structure arise from the discretization of certain ill-posed problems in signal and image processing. We use a preconditioned conjugate gradient algorithm to compute a regularized solution to this linear system given noisy data. Our preconditioner is a Cauchy-like block diagonal approximation to an orthogonal transformation of ...

Ill-defined strings often occur in soft sciences, e.g. in linguistics or in biology. In this paper we consider `-length strings which have in each position one of the three symbols 0 or false, 1 or true, [ or irrelevant. We tackle some generalisations of the usual Hamming distance between binary crisp strings which were recently used in computational linguistics. We comment on their metric prop...

The author first explains that he will argue for the constitutional right to die, including the right of terminally ill persons to physician-assisted suicide. It would be a constitutional tragedy otherwise because it would entail that the Constitutional sanctions a horrible form of tyranny and that the Constitution allows citizens to author their own tragic endings. In the final part of the ess...