Popular sovereignty is a key component of modern political thinking, yet a history of the concept has not previously been attempted. This volume does not pretend to offer a comprehensive treatment. It arises from a collaborative project involving scholars specialising across a range of periods – spanning ancient, medieval, early modern and modern political thought. What has emerged is not a con...

in this article, while bringing up the phrase ‘aqrab al-nās ilayha ‘alī b. abī ṭālib, we would touch upon the important controversy concerning the rest of the phrase and would examine the viewpoints of both the proponents and opponents; then, we would draw a conclusion of this debate and explain that various phrases have been quoted from ibn ‘arabī and it is most likely that this difference is ...

one of the most important and famous sciences in the field of tradition studies is the study of rejal (narrators of hadiths) which dealss with the narrators’ status to ensure that the narrated traditions (hadiths) are issued by the infallibles. mohammad taqi shoushtari was an outstanding contemporary biographical evaluation scientific who had critical viewpoint in this field. his qamoos al- rej...

This paper presents an experience-based account of the concept of authority in the context of recent and anticipatory developments in the air traffic management (ATM) domain where airspace capacity constantly increases and international programs plan on developing more technology to increase ATM safety. In this context, traditional individual human factors investigations shift toward new organi...

Through the concept of Cognitive Authority, information relevance and quality have been related to the expertise/skill of those who publish and share information on the Web. This chapter discusses how the concept of cognitive authority can be used in order to improve the information retrieval on folksonomybased systems. The hypothesis is that a ranking scheme that takes into account the cogniti...

This paper concerns moral development in the framework of cognitive modeling. Traditionally, moral development researches have been conducted, mostly discussing different level of development among subjects of different ages and their developmental tendencies and orders. This methodology works well in finding the ratio of subjects in each level at the time of research, as well as subjects’ tend...

Background: This study aimed to investigate dose area product (DAP), effective dose, and radiation risk in newborn infants hospitalized in neonatal intensive care units in Isfahan and Kashan. Materials and Methods: During a period of six months, DAP for chest X-ray examinations for newborn infants hospitalized in NICUs of five special hospitals including Beheshti (in Kashan), Al-Zahra, Imam Hos...