in this research, the methodology of which is descriptive-inferential, our problem is the role of the unity of divine acts in mulla sadra’s transcendent philosophy and the evaluation of his arguments on it. in this regard, after explaining the concept of “unity of divine acts”, we show that since the boundaries of sadra’s philosophical system approaches speculative mysticism, sadra’s system in ...

BACKGROUND Health literacy requires reading and writing skills as well as knowledge of health topics and health systems. Materials written at high reading levels with ambiguous, technical, or dense text, often place great comprehension demands on consumers with lower literacy skills. This study developed and used an instrument to analyze cervical cancer prevention materials for readability, com...

Advance translation is a method of source questionnaire development for multilingual survey projects to enhance translatability and (inter)cultural portability. The aim minimize issues in the final stage. I empirically tested results previously conducted advance think-aloud study analyzed utterances made mixed-method approach, calculating chi-square statistics cross-checking these by observatio...

abstract weirs are the most common structures for discharge measurement in engineering research. streamline curvature, non hydrostatic pressure distribution on weir and nappe adherence to the weir lead to differences between calculated and measured discharges. thus discharge coefficient, which is the ratio of real and theoretic discharges, is usually less than unity. in circular weirs the press...

BACKGROUND Communicating health messages is an important way to influence people's behaviors towards health issues. Providers need to incorporate audience's perspective to design more persuasive messages. This study aimed to develop rating scales for measuring audience's perception of effectiveness of health messages in Japanese people. METHODS The comprehensibility scale including five items...

Representations of SO(5) q are constructed explicitly on the Chevalley basis for all q, generic and root of unity. Matrix elements of the generators are obtained for all representations depending on three variable indices, the maximal number being 4. A prescription for contraction is given such that a complete Hopf algebra is immediately obtained for the non-semisimple contracted case. For q a ...

when belief priniplees among all muslems became identi cal, this opportunity has bee provided for clergyman scientist to infere legal command ments to rely it, that it lead to emergence of prudence religion and diversity of opinions. although this practice religious leads to dispute about opinions, but they are not related to beliefe principles. thus it isn't worthy that these disputes don...