in this article the sins and the presence of the women in ardavirafnameh, a pahlavi book, has been surveyed. the book is one of the important religious books of zoroastrianism. although this book has been written contemporarily but the foundation of the introduced ideas comes from sasanians period. since the book has directly addressed some women's issues and state of their sins in the day...

The article investigates the value of Wolfgang Iser’s concept of repertoire for reading the apocryphal story of Susanna. The viewpoint is that fictional literature such as the Susanna narrative and reality are not opposites of each other, but that fictional texts tell us something about reality. The investigation will also include Peter L. Berger’s theory on how religion contributes to construc...

PSA biomarker data have not been included in this year’s release of data from the US National Cancer Institute (NCI)’s large Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database pending investigation into coding errors. “In a study developed as part of our routine quality assurance and quality assessment activities in the SEER programme, we noted that a substantial number of registrarrepo...

in recent decades, the fertility rate in iran has gone through dramatic changes due to different reasons. one of these reasons is women’s increasing participation in the workforce and modern employment which has imposed changes to the childbearing behavior. on the other hand, working women face different challenges regarding childbearing. the present qualitative study investigates the childbear...

This article investigates the phenomenon of gender equality in employment BRICS countries where it is one factors hampering economic development and basic human rights. The authors examine international obligations these states under rights treaties United Nations Organization (UNO) International Labour (ILO), compare national anti-discriminatory norms with standards (ILO Conventions Convention...

This study investigated the thiol-disulphide balance in vaginitis, which is a local inflammatory condition, through the use of a new method. A cross-sectional study involving 82 women (45 women with vaginitis and 37 women in control group) was conducted at Ataturk Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey from February 2016 to April 2016. Their ages varied between 19-75 years (mean: 42.8±...