the increasing and unlimited cases of burdensome dowries beyond the husband's solvency, leading finally to the enforcement of dowry and divorce, had led some commentators to fix a certain maximum for dowry. the authors, in this article, intend to find a proper theory to resolve this matrimonial problem through reviewing the earlier and later islamic jurisprudents’ opinions. although according t...

We are grateful to the commentators for providing many stimulating and valuable observations. The main point of our article was to call attention to the overestimation of individual differences correlations in a subset of neuroimaging papers. To structure our discussion of these comments, we list the main points from our paper, note where commentators have agreed or disagreed with each, and pro...

in the fourth verse of the chapter tariq, human soul has been known to have a guard. commentators, however, have presented different views knowing human soul and its guard respectively as: 1- human spirit and divine angles, 2- all creatures and god, 3- animal power and human spirit. as one of the fundamental causes for disagreement lies in the philosophical tendencies of the commentators, this ...

My brief article (Lynn, 2001) on hidden observers and informed consent seems to have jangled a raw nerve among a group of commentators whose names are a virtual “who’s who” of the proponents of the use of hypnosis for memory recovery and of ego-state and dissociation-based therapies and theories. Dr. Kluft is right: “Proponents of paradigms often conduct themselves as if they were the agents of...

three decades is moving forward and the Discussion Forum will open on 28 October. I encourage as many of you as possible to participate in the conference as audience and as commentators. Meanwhile we are working on the programme for the next couple of years. The following themes are being discussed. Leaders have been identified in some cases; the leading team may evolve. Those below are general...

The scholarly literature on Russia’s influence in Europe has so far mainly focused activities, discussed either as ‘disinformation’ or ‘soft power’. Less attention been paid to understanding the agency of European audiences receptive Russian narratives. Through discourse analysis Norwegian media texts (February 2014 – December 2020) where authors interviewees accepted were prone accept Crimea p...

BACKGROUND TO THE DEBATE Systematic reviews that combine high-quality evidence from several trials are now widely considered to be at the top of the hierarchy of clinical evidence. Given the primacy of systematic reviews-and the fact that individual clinical trials rarely provide definitive answers to a clinical research question-some commentators question whether the sample size calculation fo...

This article responds to comments on Kirsch, Mazzoni, & Montgomery (2007). Contrary to the perceptions of some commentators, the target article was not aimed at supporting a particular view of hypnosis. Instead, it was a reminder of a long accepted axiom in hypnosis research: the effects of hypnotic suggestions cannot be attributed to hypnosis unless it is demonstrated that the same suggestion ...