One does not have to walk long in the hallways of schools to see that something is very wrong. We search in our students for the passion and enthusiasm for learning that they possessed before entering school. Instead, we find idle bystanders content to remain distant from formal instruction and from their hearts. Too often they remain dazed, passive consumers window shopping the mall of educati...

We study a controlled corporate experiment in which loan officers was altered from fixed salary to volume-based pay. The incentives increased aggressiveness of origination: higher origination rates (+31%), loan sizes (+15%), and default rate (+28%). The effects are partly driven by moral hazard: approval decision is driven by loan officers’ discretion; however, default is uncorrelated with disc...

BACKGROUND Because beliefs about the soul after death affect the dying experience, patients and survivors may want to discuss those beliefs with their healthcare provider; however, almost no medical research describes such beliefs, leaving healthcare professionals ill prepared to respond. This exploratory study begins the descriptive process. METHODS Assuming that culture is key, we asked old...

the immortality of the rational soul is one of the most important issues of ibn sina’s philosophy and anthropology. he poses many arguments in proving this subject. ibn sina proves the immortality of rational soul by not having relation or position of the intelligible concepts, indefinite power of the rational soul in his actions as well as its needlessness to sensible faculties in some of its ...