The practice of medicine was considered a noble profession by Muslims. Before being allowed to practice one should have acquired a wide experience in medicine and should have been well trained and disciplined. Students were asked to be in close contact with patients in order 10 apply the theory they had learned by allending hospital rounds and seminars. The evolution of medical teaching passed ...

1Endocrine Research Centre, Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Islamic Republic of Iran. 2Department of Disease Control and National Committee for the Control and Management of Diabetes, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. Received: 23/04/02; accepted: 06/01/03 SUMMARY Diabetes mellitus has become a monumental problem and a major heal...

This paper investigates the ways in which terrorism is linked to education and poverty using data newly culled from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) documentary sources. The paper presents a statistical analysis of the determinants of participation in terrorist activities by members of the Hamas and PIJ between the late 1980s and May 2002. The resulting evidence suggests that both high...

Department of Health Education; Department of Epidemiology, School of Health, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Islamic Republic of Iran (Correspondence to F. Rakhshani: [email protected]). 2Department of Health Education, Tarbiat Moddares University, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. ABSTRACT A qualitative study in Zahedan, Islamic Republic of Iran, used focus group discussio...

financial concepts and terms in conventional and Islamic banking, the impact of religion and language, and other individual variables on preferences for financial services. Data from a university graduate and undergraduate business students (n = 667) from the United Arab Emirates was used to investigate the role of financial knowledge, religion, and language on self-reported attitudes and prefe...

This study investigates the banking behavior of Islamic bank customers in Bangladesh. By collecting data from a sample of 100 customers of Islamic banks, researchers conducted a comprehensive profile analysis, a number of chi-square tests, and t tests and found a number of key findings as to the behavior of Islamic bank customers in Bangladesh. First, most of the customers of Islamic banks fall...

1Endocrine Research Centre, Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Islamic Republic of Iran. 2Department of Disease Control and the National Committee for the Control and Management of Diabetes, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. Received: 23/04/02; accepted: 06/01/03 SUMMARY Diabetes mellitus is a significant threat to public health. It...

1 Department of Mathematics, Islamic Azad University-Ayatollah Amoli Branch, Amol, P.O. Box 678, Iran 2 Department of Mathematics Education and the RINS, Gyeongsang National University, Chinju 660-701, South Korea 3 Department of Mathematics, Research Institute for Natural Sciences, Hanyang University, Seoul 133-791, South Korea 4 Dipartimento di Matematica ed Applicazioni, Università degli Stu...

1 Youngs Researchers Club and Department of Basic Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Ayatollah Amoli Branch, P.O. Box 678, Amol, Iran 2 Department of Mathematics Education and the RINS, Gyeongsang National University, Chinju 660-701, South Korea 3 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Ayatollah Amoli Branch, P.O. Box 678, Amol, Iran 4 Department of Mathematics and Compu...