BACKGROUND/AIMS Some dementia patients have profound behavioral and psychological symptoms which might cause legal violation. We illustrate clinical and criminal characteristics of dementia patients who had been incarcerated because of criminal activity. METHODS The National Forensic Hospital is the only hospital-based correctional facility in the Republic of Korea which incarcerates criminal...

Investigators should properly calculate sample sizes before the start of their randomised trials and adequately describe the details in their published report. In these a-priori calculations, determining the effect size to detect--eg, event rates in treatment and control groups--reflects inherently subjective clinical judgments. Furthermore, these judgments greatly affect sample size calculatio...

Abstract : Najmoddin Razi was the well-known mystics in the late 6th century and beginning of 7th century (AH). He has authored so many works in the field of Islamic mysticism. In his most significant work, Mersadolebad, he pointed out the beginning and end of the universe, the start of deportment and the extremity of development as well as the destination and goals of lover and beloved. In Raz...

since molla sadra’s era, various exegeses have been made of the principality of existence (isalat al-wujoud) and non-principality of quiddity which can be placed in three distinct groups: 1) common-sense exegeses, 2) philosophical exegeses, and 3) mystical exegeses. common-sense exegesis is the one derived from a common sense viewpoint of the universe, which presupposes the quiddities external....