The present study aimed at Investigating the knowledge and attitude of Nursing Students towards Iranian Traditional Medicine in universities of Tehran in 2012-2013. 300 students of nursing studying at different universities in Tehran participated in this descriptive, cross-sectional study. The data was collected through a standard questionnaire with an acceptable validity and reliability. The q...

This paper investigates the extent to which differences in people’s socio-political attitudes and behaviours are underpinned by individual characteristics. Two groups of volunteers: (a) an Iranian sample that have been resident in UK for less than two years, and (b) a British sample, took part in this study. A series of validated scales was used to examine differences in levels of empathy, theo...

The rapid development of data-driven technologies has led to manifold concerns on how protect citizens from the effects massive data exploitation, especially when “personal data” are at stake, since they object a fundamental right. Personal legally defined as any information “relating to” an identified or identifiable natural person, right holder. However, it is unclear in which particular sens...

Currently, legislators are paying special attention to the personal data of individuals since these can be processed, transferred quickly and available in cyberspace. The purpose this article is describe process by which Iran's legal system protects information privacy. There no specific law Iran regarding protection data, therefore should protected accordance with other laws. While the...

Global health research is essentially a normative undertaking: we use it to propose policies that ought to be implemented. To arrive at a normative conclusion in a logical way requires at least one normative premise, one that cannot be derived from empirical evidence alone. But there is no widely accepted normative premise for global health, and the actors with the power to set policies may use...

This paper proposes a framework based on Defeasible Logic (DL) to reason about normative modifications. We show how to express them in DL and how the logic deals with conflicts between temporalised normative modifications. Some comments will be given with regard to the phenomenon of retroactivity.