According the qur’ānic verses, God is the first teacher of the Qur’ān. The Prophet (s) used different methods to teach the Qur’ān and recommended others to teach it, especially to one’s children. The question of the permissibility or impermissibility of receiving wage for the teaching of the Qur’ān has brought about some disagreements among Muslim scholars, where each group has relied on some q...

The present paper presents an application that composes formal poetry in Spanish in a semiautomatic interactive fashion. ASPERA is a forward reasoning rulebased system that obtains from the user basic style parameters and an intended message; applies a knowledge-based preprocessor to select the most appropriate metric structure for the user's wishes; and, by intelligent adaptation of selected e...

After the US Supreme Court overturned the Affordable Care Act’s mandate that states expand Medicaid, roughly half the states have declined to expand. Declining states blame the high state budgetary cost. While these states do have significantly higher expansion costs, they are also significantly more likely to have Republican Party control of the legislature and governor office. Statistical inq...

A common rationale for bicameralism is that a second look at proposed legislation results in the enactment of informationally better legislation than that enacted by unicameral legislatures. This argument neglects that choices by bicameral chambers to acquire information arise within the strategic environment formed by the interplay of the chambers. Because information is costly, bicameral cham...

this paper is a structuralist study of some verses composed by attar in mantegh-at-tayr. the paper holds verses no. 616 to 680. the part from which the verses have been selected, is the introduction of the story of asefi. attar has employed the method of bara' at estehlaal (the core of the theme) in order to introduce the reader to the thematic core of the subject.