Among all classes of faults, Byzantine faults form the most general modeling of value faults. Traditionally, in the Byzantine fault model, faults are statically attributed to a set of up to t processes. This, however, implies that in this model a process at which a value fault occurs is forever “stigmatized” as being Byzantine, an assumption that might not be acceptable for long-lived systems, ...

Some Muslim thinkers have had disagreements over the use of the word “‘ishq” in religious texts since many years ago. The main claim made by those who prohibit the use of this word for the sacred associations such as God, the Prophet (s), and Imāms is that the meaning of this word is appropriate only to the material and carnal issues and so, it has not been used in religious texts and its conce...

P ositive trials get reported more often than negative trials, according to many studies. And despite efforts in the past decade to combat publication bias, it remains a substantial problem, according to two articles published last fall. One found that results had been published from fewer than half of the trials registered in the federal database, clinicaltrials.gov. The second article found t...

dear editor,i read with interest article that published entitled *isolation and identification of bioactive compound producing rhodococcus spp. isolated from soil samples {ijmcm/5(1) (2015) 463-468}* [1]. some of the genus such as nocardia, gordonia, mycobacterium and rhodococcus are in actinomycete family and they are gram-positive and partially acid-fast. rhodococcus species usually stain gra...