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Comfort Needs of Renal Transplant Recipients: A Qualitative Analysis Guided by Kolcaba's Theory of Comfort

open access: yesJournal of Clinical Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To analyse the comfort needs of patients following renal transplantation, guided by Kolcaba's Theory of Comfort. Design A qualitative design was employed. Methods This study was conducted at a Brazilian university hospital's renal transplant outpatient clinic.
Cecília Carla Barroso Calazans   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reincarnation in America: A Brief Historical Overview

open access: yesReligions, 2017
American theories of reincarnation have a long and complex history, dating from 1680s to the present. It is the purpose of this paper to highlight the main currents of reincarnation theory in the American context, giving a brief historical survey ...
Lee Irwin
doaj   +1 more source

The Place of History in British Criminology: 20th‐Century Developments

open access: yesSociology Lens, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 16-30, March 2025.
ABSTRACT While the relevance of historical research and analysis for the development of a critical criminology in the United States in the 1970s has recently received some attention by historical criminologists, the place of history in British criminology—and British critical criminology in particular—remains a largely unexplored area of academic ...
Roberto Catello
wiley   +1 more source

Minimal quasi-stationary distribution approximation for a birth and death process [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In a first part, we prove a Lyapunov-type criterion for the $\xi\_1$-positive recurrence of absorbed birth and death processes and provide new results on the domain of attraction of the minimal quasi-stationary distribution.
Villemonais, Denis
core   +8 more sources

Maternal Paradox: When Nurturer Meets the Knife, Living Organ Donation From Daughters to Mothers in Türkiye

open access: yesSociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article uses the case of living organ donation from daughters to mothers in Türkiye to examine how maternal subjectivities are constructed, enacted, and transformed within specific cultural contexts. In Türkiye, motherhood is both culturally idealized and politically reinforced as the moral core of womanhood.
Sezen Demirhan, İlknur Gürses Köse
wiley   +1 more source

Seeing in Eternal Return: Hermeneutical Perspectives on Karma and Rebirth

open access: yesReligions, 2017
This article is a reflection on a conception of death, that of karma and rebirth, and its value in interpreting one’s life. I have thought about this conception in two ways. The first is that I can see the circumstances of my life as the result of causes
Jonathan Edelmann
doaj   +1 more source

Writing about war: Jung, Much Ado About Nothing, and the Troy novels of Lindsay Clarke [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Arguably, in a time of war literature, and indeed all writing, is saturated with deep psychic responses to conflict. So that not only in literary genres such as epic and tragedy, but also in the novel and comedy, can writing about war be discerned.
Rowland, Susan
core  

Book Review: Pilgrim Without Boundaries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
A review of Pilgrim Without Boundaries by Ravi ...
Amaladass, Anand
core   +2 more sources

From Populism to Fascism? On Our Present‐Time Political Categories

open access: yesSociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With the global rise of far‐right governments, two categories are available to describe this aspect of our current times: populism and fascism. This raises a twofold question: analytically, which is the most accurate to describe these authoritarian governments?
Federico Tarragoni
wiley   +1 more source

Inducible Forward Programming of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells to Hemato-endothelial Progenitor Cells with Hematopoietic Progenitor Potential

open access: yesStem Cell Reports, 2020
Summary: Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) offer a promising platform to model early embryonic developmental processes, to create disease models that can be evaluated by drug screens as well as proof-of-concept experiments for regenerative medicine.
Lucas Lange   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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