So far we do not have much serious scholarship on the study of polygamy in ancient China, except for collections of literary compositions. Keith McMahon's newest book, Women Shall Not Rule: Imperial Wives and Concubines in China from Han to Liao, fills in this blank in the field of Chinese studies. In this book, written with conscientiousness and compassion, Keith McMahon illustrates early Chin...

BACKGROUND In the Indian context, a household's caste characteristics are most relevant for identifying its poverty and vulnerability status. Inadequate provision of public health care, the near-absence of health insurance and increasing dependence on the private health sector have impoverished the poor and the marginalised, especially the scheduled tribe population. This study examines caste-b...

The last two decades have seen considerable efforts directed towards making electronic health records interoperable through improvements in medical ontologies, terminologies and coding systems. Unfortunately, these efforts have been hampered by a number of influential ideas inherited from the work of Eugen Wüster, the father of terminology standardization and the founder of ISO TC 37. We here s...

objectives: resilience is one of important subjects in health psychology. a lot of studies have investigated factors that are connected to resilience. the objective of this research was to determine role of the positive affect, negative affect and optimism, as predicting variables. method: the participants in the research were 201 students of shiraz university (100 males, 101 females) who exper...

This study integrated efforts to identify influential people and to extend theories of structural predictors of compliance. Adults (N = 195) were shown a sociogram of 11 people who were connected by friendships. Participants were asked to imagine themselves in this group, identify a position for themselves, select another member for an interaction, and predict their likelihood of complying with...

Amaç: Bu çalışma, engelli bireylerin sağlık hizmet sunucuları içinde önemli bir role sahip olan hastaneleri tercih nedenlerini araştırmak, hastane nedenlerinin katılımcıların tanımlayıcı özelliklerine göre farklılaşıp farklılaşmadığını belirlemek amacıyla yapılmıştır. Gereç ve Yöntem: Tanımlayıcı tipte yapılan çalışmanın evrenini bireyler oluşturmaktadır. Verilerin analizinde bağımsız örneklem ...