BACKGROUND The protective effects of religion against late life depression may depend on the broader sociocultural environment. This paper examines whether the prevailing religious climate is related to cross-cultural differences of depression in elderly Europeans. METHODS Two approaches were employed, using data from the EURODEP collaboration. First, associations were studied between church-...

The First Vatican Council was convened in 1869 and ended in 1870, an ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church, and one of the most important events in her historical development since the Council of Trent. The preliminaries were surrounded by the closest secrecy. As early as the end of the year 1864, Pius IX had commissioned t cardinals resident in Rome to tender him their opinions as to...

GOVERNMENT PLANS to extend the sex education role of school nurses have been welcomed by nursing unions but dubbed 'appalling' by Roman Catholic nurses.

Our first tendency is to look outside Europe when searching for ancient rhetorics that do not follow the Greco-Roman tradition. After all, much of European culture was strongly influenced by Roman culture, especially following the conquests of Julius Caesar in 58-51 BCE and subsequent conquests that brought most of Europe under Roman control. Rome’s civic practices, including variations of Grec...

Roman chamomile (Chamaemelum nobile L.) is renowned for its production of essential oils, which major components are sesquiterpenoids. As the important enzyme in the sesquiterpenoid biosynthesis pathway, 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A synthase (HMGS) catalyze the crucial step in the mevalonate pathway in plants. To isolate and identify the functional genes involved in the sesquiterpene b...

Deriving funding from missionary sources in Ireland, Britain and the USA, and from international leprosy relief organizations such as the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association (BELRA) and drawing on developing capacities in international public health under the auspices of WHO and UNICEF through the 1950s, the Roman Catholic Mission Ogoja Leprosy Scheme applied international expertise at a ...

UNLABELLED This research focused on understanding the attitudes toward human cloning in Taiwan among professionals in healthcare, law, and religion. DESIGN The study was conducted utilizing a structured questionnaire. PARTICIPANTS 220 healthcare professionals from two regional hospitals located in Taipei, 351 religious professionals in the northern Taiwan and 711 legal professionals were se...

In the original article by R. Lucero et al.: “Identifying Consumer’s Needs of Health Information Technology through an Innovative Participatory Design Approach among Englishand Spanish-speaking Urban Older Adults”, Dr. Argerie Tsimicalis was left off the authors list. Dr. Tsimicalis was instrumental in the analysis of the data for this publication. The correct author and affiliation list is: R....

chamaemelum nobile (asteraceae) commonly known as 'roman chamomile' is a medicinal plant used for numerous diseases in traditional medicine, although its anticancer activity is unknown. the present study was carried out to investigate the anticancer as well as apoptotic activity of ethyl acetate fraction of c. nobile on different cancerous cell lines. the cells were treated with varyi...

Does religious commitment have a common political impact across national frontiers? To date, that question has been explored empirically only for Roman Catholics, who might be expected to behave similarly because of centralizing resources in their tradition. This article explores the extent of transnational political attitudes among Jews in the United States and Israel, two groups with less cen...