Reply to Critics of Reference and Description: The Case Against Two-Dimensionalism

Reply to Stone on counterpart theory and four-dimensionalism

پیشنهاد چارچوبی نو برای کتابشناسی توصیفی- تحلیلی با تأکید بر دیدگاه انتقادی

Purpose: composing and formulating bibliography is key activity in scientific area. It is necessary to conduct this activity on the basis of an organized and coherent framework in order to prevent wasting time and cost, unwillingness of audiences, incoherency of book description/analysis structure, and imperfect evaluation. Since the lack of such tool to formulation of bibliographies is evident...

presentation of a two stages method to determine the suitable benchmark and return to scale (case study: girls high school of one zone shiraz city)

In this paper, a two stages method to determine suitable benchmark and return scale of the decision making units set is presented. At first, all of the efficient reference set in no radial data envelopment analysis (DEA) based on linear programming is found. first, RAM model is introduced and units is investigated using this model, then, to run the given algorithm below steps is performed. At t...

A Description of Reference Ranges for Organic Acids in Urine Samples from A Pediatric Population in Iran

Background: Organic acids refer to a family of compounds that are intermediates in a variety of metabolic pathways. Many organic acids are present in urine from clinically normal individuals. Elevated levels of urine organic acids cause to the organic acidurias, disorders in which some metabolic pathways in organic acid metabolism are blocked. The present work identified major and minor urinary...

Association of hyperhomocysteinemia with coronary artery disease in southern Iran

Dear Editor, In response to the criticisms regarding the article entitled; “association of hyperhomocysteinemia with coronary artery disease in Southern Iran”, published in Iran J Med Sci,1 we still believe the methodology used in this study was a case control design as the cases where chosen on the basis of outcome (coronary artery disease) and the controls were individuals without the disease...