BACKGROUND Ugandan law prohibits abortion under all circumstances except where there is a risk for the woman's life. However, it has been estimated that over 250 000 illegal abortions are being performed in the country yearly. Many of these abortions are carried out under unsafe conditions, being one of the most common reasons behind the nearly 5000 maternal deaths per year in Uganda. Little re...

Theorisation and debate have been going on around the concept of civil society literally for centuries and ‘civil society theory’ could be understood as an umbrella term for the body of theorisation which has emerged. However, the term is used here in a more restricted sense to refer to the contemporary production of an ideological discourse through which academic theory is recycled as the poli...

question of quantity and quality of built spaces and meanings and implications inherent them, have always at the forefront of architectural researches. meanwhile, “approach to cognition” of the phenomenon of built space as well as “means of cognition” is the difference of researches and it is in question. one of the epistemology on recognition of objects which introduced in 20th century and emb...

The present study aimed to examine theposition of "Jurist Islam" discourses and "Liberal Islam"in the "Final Review of the Islamic Republic of Iran Constitution" in1979. And consider the conflict between the above-mentioned constitutionaldiscourses to gain a better understanding of these discourses and the constitution.To this aim, should find the point of the deba...

This paper surveys work on applying the insights of lexicalized grammars to low-level discourse, to show the value of positing an autonomous grammar for low-level discourse in which words (or idiomatic phrases) are associated with discourse-level predicate–argument structures or modification structures that convey their syntactic-semantic meaning and scope. It starts by describing a lexicalized...