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Evaluation of Nasr Hamed Abu Zayd's interpretive approach in understanding the verses of the Islamic rulings

Hamed Abu Zayd, a contemporary scholar, believes that the message of the Quran can only survive through interpretation. In his view, the verses of the Islamic rulings should be interpreted in a modern way; From the development process of the Islamic rulings in the age of revelation, a message can be deducted through which modern rulings can be obtained. Since every understanding of the Qurchr('...

The Effect of Short Message Service on Knowledge of Patients with Diabetes in Yazd, Iran

OBJECTIVE: Diabetes mellitus has shown a tremendous health and social burden worldwide. Better glycemic control in patients with diabetes can be achieved by improving their knowledge which consequently will prevent developing microvascular and neurological complications. Some studies demonstrate effectiveness of Short Message Service (SMS) for patient education. Regarding exponential growth in ...

Network Fault Tolerance in LA-MPI

LA-MPI is a high-performance, network-fault-tolerant implementation of MPI designed for terascale clusters that are inherently unreliable due to their very large number of system components and to trade-offs between cost and performance. This paper reviews the architectural design of LA-MPI, focusing on our approach to guaranteeing data integrity. We discuss our network data path abstraction th...