TOWARD AN OBJECTIVE ISLAMIC STUDIES

Toward a Post-Orientalist Approach to Islamic Religious Studies

Islamic Beliefs in Compulsory Islamic Studies (Islamiyat) and Cognitive Development: An investigation

Islamic Studies or Islamiyat is offered as compulsory subject following the recommendation of Objective Resolution 1949, and Constitution of 1973 of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Therefore, all successive governments of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan took measures to introduce Islamic learning programs and courses in academics. Apart from other measures of introducing Islam both as a reli...

Toward an Objective Value Scale of Creativity in Visual Art

ion 26 – 50 25% or 1/4 Imagination 51 – 75 25% or 1/4 Conceptualization 76 – 100 25% or 1/4 In the above example, each element acquires an equal range of values with weighted differences between elements according to the creative value of each element. If a work of visual art lacks substantial conceptualization, resulting value ranges reflect a substantial increase in distributed weight to acco...

Toward an Objective Diagnostic Test for Bacterial Cellulitis

BACKGROUND Prior studies repeatedly showed that cultures of skin lesions diagnosed as "cellulitis" are usually negative. However, lack of a gold standard for diagnosis (against which culture might be judged) and failure to assess the human immune response are important limitations of prior work. In this pilot study, we aimed to develop a criterion standard for research on bacterial cellulitis, ...

Toward an objective measure of functional disability in dysferlinopathy.

INTRODUCTION Understanding the natural history of dysferlinopathy is essential to design and quantify novel therapeutic protocols. Our aim in this study was to assess, clinically and functionally, a cohort of patients with dysferlinopathy, using validated scales. METHODS Thirty-one patients with genetically confirmed dysferlinopathy were assessed using the motor function measure (MFM), Modifi...