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Rattani, Sarwat Amin, and Dr Farah Iqbal. "Death and Life: A Study on Pakistani Youth." JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH 11, no. 1 (February 27, 2017): 2306–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.24297/jssr.v11i1.5792.

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The aim of the present study was to explore the relation between Death Attitudes and Meaning in Life. Besides this exploratory approach, it was also hypothesized that ‘Search for Meaning’ would be significantly greater than ‘Presence of Meaning’ in youth population. For this purpose, 60 males and 60 female students were conveniently approached in University of Karachi to participate in the study. Two questionnaires were administered; Death Attitudes Profile – Revised (subscales; fear of death, death avoidance, neutral acceptance, approach acceptance and escape acceptance) and Meaning in Life (subscales; search for meaning and presence of meaning). Results revealed gender difference in two death attitudes. Hypothesis regarding search for meaning being greater than presence of meaning was proved. Exploratory analysis of death attitudes and meaning in life showed complex relation.  The aim of the present study was to explore the relation between Death Attitudes and Meaning in Life. Besides this exploratory approach, it was also hypothesized that ‘Search for Meaning’ would be significantly greater than ‘Presence of Meaning’ in youth population. For this purpose, 60 males and 60 female students were conveniently approached in University of Karachi to participate in the study. Two questionnaires were administered; Death Attitudes Profile – Revised (subscales; fear of death, death avoidance, neutral acceptance, approach acceptance and escape acceptance) and Meaning in Life (subscales; search for meaning and presence of meaning). Results revealed gender difference in two death attitudes. Hypothesis regarding search for meaning being greater than presence of meaning was proved. Exploratory analysis of death attitudes and meaning in life showed complex relation. Â
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Kimble, Melvin A. "Aging and the Search for Meaning." Journal of Religious Gerontology 7, no. 1-2 (January 3, 1991): 111–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j078v07n01_09.

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Yek, Ming Hwei, Nik Olendzki, Zoltan Kekecs, Vicki Patterson, and Gary Elkins. "Presence of Meaning in Life and Search for Meaning in Life and Relationship to Health Anxiety." Psychological Reports 120, no. 3 (March 6, 2017): 383–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0033294117697084.

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The present study explored presence of meaning in life, search for meaning in life, and their correlation with health anxiety. The Meaning in Life Questionnaire and the Short Health Anxiety Inventory were completed by 753 individuals. Results indicated higher presence of meaning in life was associated with lower health anxiety, while the opposite was observed for search for meaning in life. Results also revealed an interaction between presence of meaning in life and search for meaning in life, where individuals with high search for meaning in life and high presence of meaning in life had lower health anxiety than those with high search for meaning in life and low presence of meaning in life. These findings suggest that presence of meaning in life and search for meaning in life are correlates of health anxiety.
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Biley, Francis C. "In search of the meaning of life?" Complementary Therapies in Nursing and Midwifery 5, no. 3 (June 1999): 65–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1353-6117(99)80016-x.

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Moody, H. R. "The Search for Meaning in Later Life." Gerontologist 49, no. 6 (October 27, 2009): 856–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnp146.

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Shpakovska, T. A., and V. M. Volchuk. "The meaning of life is search and result." Bulletin of Prydniprovs’ka State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture, no. 5 (November 2, 2020): 131–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.30838/j.bpsacea.2312.220920.131.681.

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Metz, Thaddeus. "“The Meaning of Life Lies in the Search”." Social Theory and Practice 39, no. 2 (2013): 313–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract201339217.

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Steger, Michael F., Patricia Frazier, Shigehiro Oishi, and Matthew Kaler. "The meaning in life questionnaire: Assessing the presence of and search for meaning in life." Journal of Counseling Psychology 53, no. 1 (January 2006): 80–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0022-0167.53.1.80.

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Platsidou, Maria, and Athena Daniilidou. "Meaning in life and resilience among teachers." Journal of Positive School Psychology 5, no. 2 (March 26, 2021): 97–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.47602/jpsp.v5i2.259.

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Meaning in life is a significant resource in the resilience process, supporting the use of adaptive behaviors and enhancing the feeling of wellbeing. As such, it could be critical for teachers who encounter many stressors threatening their life quality and work productivity. This study aimed to investigate how teachers' levels of meaning in life relate to their resilience. Data were collected from 299 teachers using the Meaning in Life Questionnaire (assessing presence of and search for meaning) and the Multidimensional Teacher Resilience Scale (assessing protective factors related to motivational and professional, social, and emotional resilience). As predicted, presence of meaning had medium-sized positive correlations with the resilience factors, whereas search for meaning had low correlations with social resilience and professional-motivational resilience and no correlation with emotional resilience. Using K-means cluster analysis, teachers were grouped into three clusters according to their scores in the two meaning dimensions. The cluster of teachers reporting both high presence of and high search for meaning showed the highest scores on the resilience factors, followed by the cluster including teachers with high presence and low search. In conclusion, our results emphasized the important role of presence of meaning in strengthening resilient responses; also, searching for meaning, when combined with a high sense of meaning, relates to better use of the resilience protective factors and resources. As to the study implications, a meaning-centered approach to building resilience in teachers is suggested and discussed.
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Skaggs, Brenda G., Bernice C. Yates, Melody Hertzog, Cecilia R. Barron, Joseph Norman, and Bunny Pozehl. "Meaning in Heart Disease: Measuring the Search for Meaning." Journal of Nursing Measurement 15, no. 2 (September 2007): 145–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/106137407782156372.

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The purpose of this study was to test the psychometric properties of a new measure, the Meaning in Heart Disease instrument (MHD), in persons who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Within 1 year of PCI, 232 persons completed the MHD and construct validity measures (SF-36v2™, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale). Study aims were examined using reliability analysis, factor analysis, and correlations. After factor analysis, four scales reflecting the theoretical concepts central to the conceptual framework of the instrument emerged—Disrupted Meaning (α = .93), Refocusing Global Meaning (α = .92), Searching for Answers (α = .82), and Ignoring Heart Disease (α = .77). Convergent and divergent validity was supported, in part, for all scales. The MHD had strong support for its validity and will be useful in testing nursing interventions aimed at helping individuals integrate heart disease into the life experience.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Search for the meaning of life"

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Burrelsman, Katherine Marie. "A Search for Meaning: The Family’s Response to Serious Mental Illness." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1273765830.

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Esping, Amber. "The search for meaning in graduate school Viktor Frankl's existential psychology and academic life in a school of education /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3307567.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Counseling and Educational Psychology, 2007.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Dec. 9, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-05, Section: A, page: 1667. Adviser: Jonathan A. Plucker.
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Henrichsen-Schrembs, Sabine [Verfasser], Johannes [Akademischer Betreuer] Huinink, and Walter R. [Akademischer Betreuer] Heinz. "Pathways to Yoga - Yoga Pathways : Modern Life Courses and the Search for Meaning in Germany / Sabine Henrichsen-Schrembs. Gutachter: Johannes Huinink ; Walter R. Heinz. Betreuer: Johannes Huinink." Bremen : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen, 2008. http://d-nb.info/1072746298/34.

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Pérez, Osores Michel Eduardo Armando. "Sentido de vida y fuentes de sentido en una muestra de Lima y provincias durante la cuarentena por el COVID-19." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/653857.

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El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar la relación entre el sentido de vida y las fuentes de sentido de vida durante la cuarentena por el COVID-19. Los participantes fueron 424 voluntarios (53.1% mujeres y 46.9% hombres) con edades entre 18 y 65 años. La investigación es de tipo cuantitativo correlacional. Los instrumentos aplicados fueron una ficha de datos sociodemográficos, el MLQ, instrumento de 10 ítems que mide la presencia y búsqueda de sentido, y el PMP-B, instrumento de 21 ítems que mide siete fuentes de sentido: relaciones, intimidad, logro, autoaceptación, autotranscendencia, trato justo y religión. Los resultados indican que presencia de sentido se relacionó significativamente con autotrascendencia (r=.51) y logro (r=.50). Los participantes hombres presentaron mayores niveles de presencia de sentido en comparación con la mujeres. Asimismo, los adultos mayores de 60 años presentaron mayores puntuaciones en autotrascendencia, trato justo y autoaceptación. Se concluye que el sentido de vida es un factor protector ante la crisis e incertidumbre de la pandemia a través de las fuentes de sentido de vida. En esta coyuntura, autotrascendencia y logro son variables que se asociaron de manera significativa con presencia de sentido.
This study aimed to analyze the relationship between meaning in life and the sources of meaning in life during the COVID-19 pandemic quarantine. 424 volunteers participated (53.1% women and 46.9% men) aged between 18 and 65 years. This is a correlational quantitative investigation. The applied instruments were a sociodemographic datasheet, the MLQ, a 10-item instrument that measures the presence and search for meaning, and the PMP-B, a 21-item instrument that measures seven sources of meaning: relationships, intimacy, achievement, self-acceptance, self-transcendence, fair treatment and religion. The results indicate that the presence of meaning is positively and significantly associated with self-transcendence (r = .51) and achievement (r = .50). The male participants presented higher levels of presence of meaning compared to the women. Likewise, adults over 60 years of age had higher scores in self-transcendence, fair treatment and self-acceptance. It is concluded that the meaning of life is a protective factor against the crisis and uncertainty of the pandemic through the sources of meaning of life. At this juncture, self-transcendence and achievement are variables that were significantly associated with the presence of meaning.
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Agostinho, Márcio Roberto. "O arquétipo do sagrado, a religião e o sentido da vida em Carl Gustav Jung." Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2006. http://tede.mackenzie.br/jspui/handle/tede/2403.

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This research addresses the Carl Yung's postulation in which religious thinking has rooted in the soul. In others terms, Jung has established a psychological foundation for the religious thinking. The aim of this work is therefore to try to understand the sacred having as stating point, the mind where reposes actively a imago Dei. Furthermore, it envisage to comprehend the relationship of this religious thinking (imago Dei) to the meaning of life. This imago revealed by the Self the divine archetype 0 is the ultimate answer of the soul: its earnest desire for life meaning. As the soul belongs to the inner world of the individual, only when one turns to the inside of self, than, he will discover the path which leads to the meaning of life and ultimately to the healing of the individual personality.
A presente pesquisa trata da postulação junguiana de que o pensamento religioso se originou da alma. Em outras palavras, Jung fez uma fundamentação psicológica para o pensamento religioso. O objetivo desse trabalho então foi tentar compreender o sagrado a partir da psique onde repousa ativamente uma imago Dei. Procurou ainda, constatar a possível relação desse pensamento religioso (imago Dei) com o sentido da vida. Essa imago manifestada pelo Self -arquétipo do divino - é a resposta à questão última da alma: o anseio que ela tem pelo sentido da vida. Como a alma pertence ao mundo interior do indivíduo, somente fazendo uma volta para dentro de si mesmo é que se trilhará o caminho que leva ao sentido da vida e, em última instância, à cura para a sua personalidade.
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Leung, Shek-fai Jimmy, and 梁錫輝. "Organicism: in search of form and meaning." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31986602.

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Leung, Shek-fai Jimmy. "Organicism : in search of form and meaning /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25947072.

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Plesh, Andrew Bohdan. "Gambling addiction and life meaning." online access from Digital dissertation consortium access full-text, 1999. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?1397972.

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Gruhl, Daniel F. "The search for meaning in large text databases." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86423.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 112-115).
by Daniel Frederick Gruhl.
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Alvarado, Beltrán Elba Fabiola. "Going and going : a contemporary search for meaning." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72809.

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Thesis (S.M. in Art, Culture and Technology)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2012.
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Meaning provides the individual with a sense of a purpose to live, being himself, and feeling at ease. Finding meaning on a daily basis is paramount. Yet, the search is constant since meaning is lost and regained persistently. Humans strive to find it, especially in the XXIst century. The high demands of productivity, and the repetitions or monotony of everyday living can cause this loss of meaning. Moreover, the accelerated pace of time and the overwhelming amount of information produced by telecommunication and computer technologies cause the loss, too. Considering the above problems, the questions they pose are: How and where to find meaning? Where can the technologized individual find a dose of it? This thesis aims to present the resolution of these questions through the chronological and epistemological trajectory of my own search for meaning. Also, this thesis presents a variety of cases in which the loss of, the search for, and the discovery of meaning happen in the context of contemporary life. Tracing the path for the meaningfulness of my art practice through the understanding of boredom, and my fascination of video games, as a medium, drove this work. My exploration towards meaning generated an intuitive, and subjective methodology that blended artistic and scientific methods (phenomenological, ethnographic, philosophical, psychological, analytical...) that rendered an unconventional series of sequential findings. These discoveries show that the search for meaning has the form of a mental journey or vacation to the worlds of the self. For example, daydreaming and dreaming are natural means to go on an excursion to our inner lands. In the modern world, meaningful mental expeditions can come about when learning or perfecting skills for play or sports, with the body or with the aid of technological tools (meaning is in action not in production). This work explains how driving real or virtual race cars transport drivers to inner locations where they spend quality time with themselves. I argue that these mediums perform as vehicles of self-exploration and self-reflection that bring about self-knowledge. Consequently, racing's particularity offers the experience of speed, which sets the conditions for the optimal mental state to find the self. This state provides a sense of time, freedom, and oneness that suspends the individual temporarily from mundane contemporary life: he finds himself in a dream with the eyes wide open and clear mind.
by Elba Fabiola Alvarado Beltran.
S.M.in Art, Culture and Technology
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Books on the topic "Search for the meaning of life"

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H, Willimon William, and Naylor Magdalena R. 1950-, eds. The search for meaning. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1994.

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In search of meaning. Berkeley, Calif: Glen-Berkeley Press, 1991.

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Ventegodt, Søren, and Joav Merrick. Our search for meaning in life. Hauppauge, N.Y: Nova Science Publishers, 2011.

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Jones, Caroline. The search for meaning collection. Sydney, NSW: ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corp., 1995.

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The search for meaning. Book two. Crows Nest, N.S.W: ABC Enterprises, 1990.

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D'Souza, Dean. In Search of the Meaning of Life. London, UK: Black Ice Corporation, 2008.

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Life and work: A manager's search for meaning. New York: William Morrow, 1994.

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Frankl, Viktor Emil. Man's Search for Meaning. New York, NY: Washington Square Press, 1985.

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Frankl, Viktor Emil. Man's Search for Meaning. New York, USA: Pocket Books, 1985.

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Frankl, Viktor Emil. Man's Search for Meaning. Boston, USA: Beacon Press, 2006.

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Book chapters on the topic "Search for the meaning of life"

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Steger, Michael F. "Wrestling with our better selves: The search for meaning in life." In The psychology of meaning., 215–33. Washington: American Psychological Association, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/14040-011.

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Young, Frances. "A Parent’s Search for Meaning in Family Life." In Meaningful Care, 3–10. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9516-2_1.

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Heath, John. "Cheating death, squandering life." In The Bible, Homer, and the Search for Meaning in Ancient Myths, 217–31. 1 [edition]. | New York : Routledge, 2019. | Series: Routledge monographs in classical studies: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429022340-11.

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Lee, Newton. "In Search of Super Longevity and the Meaning of Life." In The Transhumanism Handbook, 313–54. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16920-6_16.

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Haugan, Gørill, and Jessie Dezutter. "Meaning-in-Life: A Vital Salutogenic Resource for Health." In Health Promotion in Health Care – Vital Theories and Research, 85–101. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63135-2_8.

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AbstractBased on evidence and theory, we state that facilitating and supporting people’s meaning-making processes are health promoting. Hence, meaning-in-life is a salutogenic concept.Authors from various disciplines such as nursing, medicine, psychology, philosophy, religion, and arts argue that the human search for meaning is a primary force in life and one of the most fundamental challenges an individual faces. Research demonstrates that meaning is of great importance for mental as well as physical well-being and crucial for health and quality of life. Studies have shown significant correlations between meaning-in-life and physical health measured by lower mortality for all causes of death; meaning is correlated with less cardiovascular disease, less hypertension, better immune function, less depression, and better coping and recovery from illness. Studies have shown that cancer patients who experience a high degree of meaning have a greater ability to tolerate bodily ailments than those who do not find meaning-in-life. Those who, despite pain and fatigue, experience meaning report better quality-of-life than those with low meaning. Hence, if the individual finds meaning despite illness, ailments, and imminent death, well-being, health, and quality-of-life will increase in the current situation. However, when affected by illness and reduced functionality, finding meaning-in-life might prove more difficult. A will to search for meaning is required, as well as health professionals who help patients and their families not only to cope with illness and suffering but also to find meaning amid these experiences. Accordingly, meaning-in-life is considered a vital salutogenic resource and concept.The psychiatrist Viktor Emil Frankl’s theory of “Will to Meaning” forms the basis for modern health science research on meaning; Frankl’s premise was that man has enough to live by, but too little to live for. According to Frankl, logotherapy ventures into the spiritual dimension of human life. The Greek word “logos” means not only meaning but also spirit. However, Frankl highlighted that in a logotherapeutic context, spirituality is not primarily about religiosity—although religiosity can be a part of it—but refers to a specific human dimension that makes us human. Frankl based his theory on three concepts: meaning, freedom to choose and suffering, stating that the latter has no point. People should not look for an inherent meaning in the negative events happening to them, or in their suffering, because the meaning is not there. The meaning is in the attitude people choose while suffering from illness, crises, etc.
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Pospielovsky, Dimitry V. "Philosophical Searches for the Meaning of Life." In Soviet Studies on the Church and the Believer’s Response to Atheism, 85–116. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19357-8_7.

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Danvers, Alexander F., Makenzie J. O’Neil, and Michelle N. Shiota. "The Mind of the “Happy Warrior”: Eudaimonia, Awe, and the Search for Meaning in Life." In Handbook of Eudaimonic Well-Being, 323–35. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42445-3_21.

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Peseschkian, Nossrat. "Giving Meaning and Finding Meaning." In In Search of Meaning, 27–79. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95481-8_2.

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Peseschkian, Nossrat. "Meaning and Man." In In Search of Meaning, 1–25. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95481-8_1.

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Peseschkian, Nossrat. "Questions of Meaning." In In Search of Meaning, 157–85. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95481-8_4.

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Conference papers on the topic "Search for the meaning of life"

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Ricardo Horita, Luiz, João Batista Pereira Matos Júnior, and Múcio Donizetti Paixão Júnior. "Enhancing the Search Tool of the Android Stteings through Natural Language Processing." In IX Simpósio Brasileiro de Engenharia de Sistemas Computacionais. Sociedade Brasileira de Computação - SBC, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5753/sbesc_estendido.2019.8640.

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Smartphones have become essential to daily life, pro- viding much more than communication services. Continuously, the device is getting ?smarter? and more complex with additional features and sensors. Configuring those features may not be so easy for new users, and making the Settings app easy to use is challenging. With this in mind, a search tool was indexed on its initial screen. However, it is still not efficient enough. While most Android search tools will try to match exactly the queried words, a more intuitive tool capable of finding content related to the meaning of those words would be desirably better. In this paper, we propose a solution based on word2vec model to encode the context of each screen in order to get more robust and intuitive search approach on the Android Settings application. Although the search problem has not been entirely solved yet, experiments showed satisfactory results, which include resolving more than 82% of cases that cannot be handled by the search tool embedded to the Android Settings
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Lysenko, Elena, and Evgeniya Zharinova. "Acme-noospheric Trends of Sustainable Education and Their Role in the Search for the Meaning of Life in the Subjects of the Educational Process." In International Scientific and Practical Conference on Sustainable Development of Regional Infrastructure. SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0010594806130619.

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Zordan, Tobia. "Sustainable Conceptual Design of Structures between Form Finding and Free Form Design: The Ruled Freedom." In IABSE Congress, Seoul 2012: Innovative Infrastructures – Towards Human Urbanism. Zurich, Switzerland: International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/seoul.2012.0006.

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<p>While the definition of “Sustainability” is a rather determined concept for many engineering disciplines, the way we have, as civil engineers, to effectively incorporate sustainability issues into Structural Design is still a fuzzy issue, even if many green rating systems cradle-to-grave are proposed in literature. Sustainability deals with the evaluation of uncertainties and with optimization procedures helping the Engineer to address the choice among a set of possible design alternatives.</p><p>Conceptual design represents a fundamental aspect in all design phases ranging, in its widest meaning, from the first ideas till the definition of the details and involving even aspects related to the life-cycle of the structure, as for instance, the long-term maintenance strategies.</p><p>In an age where digital tools are giving the Designers the possibility of expressing themselves shaping structures whose fundamentals can be completely separated from the principles of Structural Engineering, with the consequent dramatic increase of the uncertainties related to the long-term response of the structure. The lesson learnt from the Masters of Structural Engineering of last Century, with their utmost attention in the definition of the most suitable shape able to fit the structural requirements under given boundary conditions, seems to acquire the greatest importance within a sustainable process where the limitation of uncertainties appears to meaningfully contribute to the reliable quantification of the life cycle costs and resource consumption.</p><p>If we can share the statement, which is probably irrefutable, that the overall development ratio of the increasing world population and the increasing search for wealth is presently incompatible with the available resources, the contribution of Structural Engineering in limiting the uncertainties related to the life-cycle demand of structures and infrastructures can be meaningful.</p><p>There is a “Ruled Freedom” in achieving a piece of Structural Art through a sustainable design that must consider usual issues like safety and serviceability as well as other key features which are sometimes not taken in due consideration such as structural efficiency, aesthetics, adaptability, durability, life-cycle costs and minimal maintenance, risk reduction and value protection. A number of examples related to the mentioned aspects will be supplied in the following.</p>
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Lewis, Rhys. "The meaning of 'life'." In the 2006 international cross-disciplinary workshop. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1133219.1133231.

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Schuster, Brigitte. "Life is Meaning (www.lifeismeaning.com)." In ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 posters. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1400885.1401019.

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Zhurba, Kateryna, and Olena Dokukina. "THE CONCEPT OF «MEANING» IN THE UNDERSTANDING OF ADOLESCENTS’ MEANING OF LIFE AND PURPOSE OF LIFE." In DÉBATS SCIENTIFIQUES ET ORIENTATIONS PROSPECTIVES DU DÉVELOPPEMENT SCIENTIFIQUE. European Scientific Platform, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36074/logos-05.02.2021.v4.44.

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Kriaučiūnaitė-Lazauskienė, Gintarė, and Rima Žitkienė. "An effect of symbols on consumer behaviour: the theoretical insights." In Contemporary Issues in Business, Management and Economics Engineering. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/cibmee.2019.015.

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Purpose – this article aims to analyse and integrate the limitations of consumer’s decision-making and difficulties for symbolic consumption in relation to symbolic branding. It highlights the symbolic impact to goods, which influenced by advertising and 21st century consumer’s behaviour propagates hedonistic values. Research methodology – the analysis of theoretical scientific literature, comparative study of conceptions. Findings – support the idea that consumers may modify their principles about the symbolic brand depending on both their self-brand relation as well as the effect of social (both live and virtual) influence. Research limitations – it is necessary to acknowledge that the current research is limited by broad scope consumer behaviour theories and methods (we in passing analysed empirical proves). Practical implications – authors suggest that the emergence of brand subculture on consumer behaviour gives the possibility of adjusting specific marketing strategies and presents the shortcomings of current research by pointing out the trends for future empirical studies. Originality/Value – It also highlights that the consumers’ search of symbolism and meaning in brands correlated with their consumer buying decision models, and we claim it could be related to utility theory. The main aim of this article is to analyse the field of symbols in advertising – in terms of their impact on the consumption process.
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Van Nort, Doug. "[radical] signals from life." In MOCO '15: Intersecting Art, Meaning, Cognition, Technology. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2790994.2791015.

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Shafer, David. "Aberration Theory and the Meaning of Life." In 1985 International Lens Design Conference, edited by Duncan T. Moore and William H. Taylor. SPIE, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.949186.

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Ermakova, Natalia G., Christina E. Denisova, and Anastasia A. Witten. "Meaning-of-life orientations and satisfaction with life in elderly people." In The Herzen University Conference on Psychology in Education. Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.33910/herzenpsyconf-2020-3-9.

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Reports on the topic "Search for the meaning of life"

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Kerce, Elyse W. Quality of Life: Meaning, Measurement, and Models. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, May 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada250813.

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Menzio, Guido, Irina Telyukova, and Ludo Visschers. Directed Search over the Life Cycle. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, January 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w17746.

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Garton, Byron, Jonathan Broderick, and Brandon Randle. Google Search appliance end of life and replacement recommendations. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), July 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/33410.

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Lyzanchuk, Vasyl. COMMUNICATIVE SYNERGY OF UKRAINIAN NATIONAL VALUES IN THE CONTEXT OF THE RUSSIAN HYBRID WAR. Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vjo.2021.49.11077.

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The author characterized the Ukrainian national values, national interests and national goals. It is emphasized that national values are conceptual, ideological bases, consolidating factors, important life guidelines on the way to effective protection of Ukraine from Russian aggression and building a democratic, united Ukrainian state. Author analyzes the functioning of the mass media in the context of educational propaganda of individual, social and state values, the dominant core of which are patriotism, human rights and freedoms, social justice, material and spiritual wealth of Ukrainians, natural resources, morality, peace, religiosity, benevolence, national security, constitutional order. These key national values are a strong moral and civic core, a life-giving element, a self-affirming synergy, which on the basis of homogeneity binds the current Ukrainian society with the ancestors and their centuries-old material and spiritual heritage. Attention is focused on the fact that the current problem of building the Ukrainian state and protecting it from the brutal Moscow invaders is directly dependent on the awareness of all citizens of the essence of national values, national interests, national goals and filling them with the meaning of life, charitable socio-political life. It is emphasized that the missionary vocation of journalists to orient readers and listeners to the meaningful choice of basic national values, on the basis of which Ukrainian citizens, regardless of nationality together they will overcome the external Moscow and internal aggression of the pro-Russian fifth column, achieve peace, return the Ukrainian territories seized by the Kremlin imperialists and, in agreement will build Ukrainian Ukraine.
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Hunter, Fraser, and Martin Carruthers. Iron Age Scotland. Society for Antiquaries of Scotland, September 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.9750/scarf.09.2012.193.

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The main recommendations of the panel report can be summarised under five key headings:  Building blocks: The ultimate aim should be to build rich, detailed and testable narratives situated within a European context, and addressing phenomena from the longue durée to the short-term over international to local scales. Chronological control is essential to this and effective dating strategies are required to enable generation-level analysis. The ‘serendipity factor’ of archaeological work must be enhanced by recognising and getting the most out of information-rich sites as they appear. o There is a pressing need to revisit the archives of excavated sites to extract more information from existing resources, notably through dating programmes targeted at regional sequences – the Western Isles Atlantic roundhouse sequence is an obvious target. o Many areas still lack anything beyond the baldest of settlement sequences, with little understanding of the relations between key site types. There is a need to get at least basic sequences from many more areas, either from sustained regional programmes or targeted sampling exercises. o Much of the methodologically innovative work and new insights have come from long-running research excavations. Such large-scale research projects are an important element in developing new approaches to the Iron Age.  Daily life and practice: There remains great potential to improve the understanding of people’s lives in the Iron Age through fresh approaches to, and integration of, existing and newly-excavated data. o House use. Rigorous analysis and innovative approaches, including experimental archaeology, should be employed to get the most out of the understanding of daily life through the strengths of the Scottish record, such as deposits within buildings, organic preservation and waterlogging. o Material culture. Artefact studies have the potential to be far more integral to understandings of Iron Age societies, both from the rich assemblages of the Atlantic area and less-rich lowland finds. Key areas of concern are basic studies of material groups (including the function of everyday items such as stone and bone tools, and the nature of craft processes – iron, copper alloy, bone/antler and shale offer particularly good evidence). Other key topics are: the role of ‘art’ and other forms of decoration and comparative approaches to assemblages to obtain synthetic views of the uses of material culture. o Field to feast. Subsistence practices are a core area of research essential to understanding past society, but different strands of evidence need to be more fully integrated, with a ‘field to feast’ approach, from production to consumption. The working of agricultural systems is poorly understood, from agricultural processes to cooking practices and cuisine: integrated work between different specialisms would assist greatly. There is a need for conceptual as well as practical perspectives – e.g. how were wild resources conceived? o Ritual practice. There has been valuable work in identifying depositional practices, such as deposition of animals or querns, which are thought to relate to house-based ritual practices, but there is great potential for further pattern-spotting, synthesis and interpretation. Iron Age Scotland: ScARF Panel Report v  Landscapes and regions:  Concepts of ‘region’ or ‘province’, and how they changed over time, need to be critically explored, because they are contentious, poorly defined and highly variable. What did Iron Age people see as their geographical horizons, and how did this change?  Attempts to understand the Iron Age landscape require improved, integrated survey methodologies, as existing approaches are inevitably partial.  Aspects of the landscape’s physical form and cover should be investigated more fully, in terms of vegetation (known only in outline over most of the country) and sea level change in key areas such as the firths of Moray and Forth.  Landscapes beyond settlement merit further work, e.g. the use of the landscape for deposition of objects or people, and what this tells us of contemporary perceptions and beliefs.  Concepts of inherited landscapes (how Iron Age communities saw and used this longlived land) and socal resilience to issues such as climate change should be explored more fully.  Reconstructing Iron Age societies. The changing structure of society over space and time in this period remains poorly understood. Researchers should interrogate the data for better and more explicitly-expressed understandings of social structures and relations between people.  The wider context: Researchers need to engage with the big questions of change on a European level (and beyond). Relationships with neighbouring areas (e.g. England, Ireland) and analogies from other areas (e.g. Scandinavia and the Low Countries) can help inform Scottish studies. Key big topics are: o The nature and effect of the introduction of iron. o The social processes lying behind evidence for movement and contact. o Parallels and differences in social processes and developments. o The changing nature of houses and households over this period, including the role of ‘substantial houses’, from crannogs to brochs, the development and role of complex architecture, and the shift away from roundhouses. o The chronology, nature and meaning of hillforts and other enclosed settlements. o Relationships with the Roman world
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Tipton, Kelley, Brian F. Leas, Nikhil K. Mull, Shazia M. Siddique, S. Ryan Greysen, Meghan B. Lane-Fall, and Amy Y. Tsou. Interventions To Decrease Hospital Length of Stay. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), September 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.23970/ahrqepctb40.

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Background. Timely discharge of hospitalized patients can prevent patient harm, improve patient satisfaction and quality of life, and reduce costs. Numerous strategies have been tested to improve the efficiency and safety of patient recovery and discharge, but hospitals continue to face challenges. Purpose. This Technical Brief aimed to identify and synthesize current knowledge and emerging concepts regarding systematic strategies that hospitals and health systems can implement to reduce length of stay (LOS), with emphasis on medically complex or vulnerable patients at high risk for prolonged LOS due to clinical, social, or economic barriers to timely discharge. Methods. We conducted a structured search for published and unpublished studies and conducted interviews with Key Informants representing vulnerable patients, hospitals, health systems, and clinicians. The interviews provided guidance on our research protocol, search strategy, and analysis. Due to the large and diverse evidence base, we limited our evaluation to systematic reviews of interventions to decrease hospital LOS for patients at potentially higher risk for delayed discharge; primary research studies were not included, and searches were restricted to reviews published since 2010. We cataloged the characteristics of relevant interventions and assessed evidence of their effectiveness. Findings. Our searches yielded 4,364 potential studies. After screening, we included 19 systematic reviews reported in 20 articles. The reviews described eight strategies for reducing LOS: discharge planning; geriatric assessment or consultation; medication management; clinical pathways; inter- or multidisciplinary care; case management; hospitalist services; and telehealth. All reviews included adult patients, and two reviews also included children. Interventions were frequently designed for older (often frail) patients or patients with chronic illness. One review included pregnant women at high risk for premature delivery. No reviews focused on factors linking patient vulnerability with social determinants of health. The reviews reported few details about hospital setting, context, or resources associated with the interventions studied. Evidence for effectiveness of interventions was generally not robust and often inconsistent—for example, we identified six reviews of discharge planning; three found no effect on LOS, two found LOS decreased, and one reported an increase. Many reviews also reported patient readmission rates and mortality but with similarly inconsistent results. Conclusions. A broad range of strategies have been employed to reduce LOS, but rigorous systematic reviews have not consistently demonstrated effectiveness within medically complex, high-risk, and vulnerable populations. Health system leaders, researchers, and policymakers must collaborate to address these needs.
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Dy, Sydney M., Julie M. Waldfogel, Danetta H. Sloan, Valerie Cotter, Susan Hannum, JaAlah-Ai Heughan, Linda Chyr, et al. Integrating Palliative Care in Ambulatory Care of Noncancer Serious Chronic Illness: A Systematic Review. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), February 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23970/ahrqepccer237.

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Objectives. To evaluate availability, effectiveness, and implementation of interventions for integrating palliative care into ambulatory care for U.S.-based adults with serious life-threatening chronic illness or conditions other than cancer and their caregivers We evaluated interventions addressing identification of patients, patient and caregiver education, shared decision-making tools, clinician education, and models of care. Data sources. We searched key U.S. national websites (March 2020) and PubMed®, CINAHL®, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (through May 2020). We also engaged Key Informants. Review methods. We completed a mixed-methods review; we sought, synthesized, and integrated Web resources; quantitative, qualitative and mixed-methods studies; and input from patient/caregiver and clinician/stakeholder Key Informants. Two reviewers screened websites and search results, abstracted data, assessed risk of bias or study quality, and graded strength of evidence (SOE) for key outcomes: health-related quality of life, patient overall symptom burden, patient depressive symptom scores, patient and caregiver satisfaction, and advance directive documentation. We performed meta-analyses when appropriate. Results. We included 46 Web resources, 20 quantitative effectiveness studies, and 16 qualitative implementation studies across primary care and specialty populations. Various prediction models, tools, and triggers to identify patients are available, but none were evaluated for effectiveness or implementation. Numerous patient and caregiver education tools are available, but none were evaluated for effectiveness or implementation. All of the shared decision-making tools addressed advance care planning; these tools may increase patient satisfaction and advance directive documentation compared with usual care (SOE: low). Patients and caregivers prefer advance care planning discussions grounded in patient and caregiver experiences with individualized timing. Although numerous education and training resources for nonpalliative care clinicians are available, we were unable to draw conclusions about implementation, and none have been evaluated for effectiveness. The models evaluated for integrating palliative care were not more effective than usual care for improving health-related quality of life or patient depressive symptom scores (SOE: moderate) and may have little to no effect on increasing patient satisfaction or decreasing overall symptom burden (SOE: low), but models for integrating palliative care were effective for increasing advance directive documentation (SOE: moderate). Multimodal interventions may have little to no effect on increasing advance directive documentation (SOE: low) and other graded outcomes were not assessed. For utilization, models for integrating palliative care were not found to be more effective than usual care for decreasing hospitalizations; we were unable to draw conclusions about most other aspects of utilization or cost and resource use. We were unable to draw conclusions about caregiver satisfaction or specific characteristics of models for integrating palliative care. Patient preferences for appropriate timing of palliative care varied; costs, additional visits, and travel were seen as barriers to implementation. Conclusions. For integrating palliative care into ambulatory care for serious illness and conditions other than cancer, advance care planning shared decision-making tools and palliative care models were the most widely evaluated interventions and may be effective for improving only a few outcomes. More research is needed, particularly on identification of patients for these interventions; education for patients, caregivers, and clinicians; shared decision-making tools beyond advance care planning and advance directive completion; and specific components, characteristics, and implementation factors in models for integrating palliative care into ambulatory care.
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Dy, Sydney M., Arjun Gupta, Julie M. Waldfogel, Ritu Sharma, Allen Zhang, Josephine L. Feliciano, Ramy Sedhom, et al. Interventions for Breathlessness in Patients With Advanced Cancer. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), November 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23970/ahrqepccer232.

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Objectives. To assess benefits and harms of nonpharmacological and pharmacological interventions for breathlessness in adults with advanced cancer. Data sources. We searched PubMed®, Embase®, CINAHL®, ISI Web of Science, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials through early May 2020. Review methods. We included randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and observational studies with a comparison group evaluating benefits and/or harms, and cohort studies reporting harms. Two reviewers independently screened search results, serially abstracted data, assessed risk of bias, and graded strength of evidence (SOE) for key outcomes: breathlessness, anxiety, health-related quality of life, and exercise capacity. We performed meta-analyses when possible and calculated standardized mean differences (SMDs). Results. We included 48 RCTs and 2 retrospective cohort studies (4,029 patients). The most commonly reported cancer types were lung cancer and mesothelioma. The baseline level of breathlessness varied in severity. Several nonpharmacological interventions were effective for breathlessness, including fans (SMD -2.09 [95% confidence interval (CI) -3.81 to -0.37]) (SOE: moderate), bilevel ventilation (estimated slope difference -0.58 [95% CI -0.92 to -0.23]), acupressure/reflexology, and multicomponent nonpharmacological interventions (behavioral/psychoeducational combined with activity/rehabilitation and integrative medicine). For pharmacological interventions, opioids were not more effective than placebo (SOE: moderate) for improving breathlessness (SMD -0.14 [95% CI -0.47 to 0.18]) or exercise capacity (SOE: moderate); most studies were of exertional breathlessness. Different doses or routes of administration of opioids did not differ in effectiveness for breathlessness (SOE: low). Anxiolytics were not more effective than placebo for breathlessness (SOE: low). Evidence for other pharmacological interventions was limited. Opioids, bilevel ventilation, and activity/rehabilitation interventions had some harms compared to usual care. Conclusions. Some nonpharmacological interventions, including fans, acupressure/reflexology, multicomponent interventions, and bilevel ventilation, were effective for breathlessness in advanced cancer. Evidence did not support opioids or other pharmacological interventions within the limits of the identified studies. More research is needed on when the benefits of opioids may exceed harms for broader, longer term outcomes related to breathlessness in this population.
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River search and recovery attempt claims the life of one fire fighter/SCUBA diver - Illinois. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, November 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.26616/nioshffface98f16.

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Guidelines on service transition for young people with ADHD. ACAMH, December 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.13056/acamh.10678.

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Recent research has led to the increasing recognition that ADHD can often be a life span disorder, meaning that a subset of affected children will eventually need to transition to adult services. Unfortunately, much research has highlighted the difficulties experienced by young people in transitioning from children’s to adult services.
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