Recent advances in life-sustaining treatments and technologies, have given rise to newly-emerged, critical and sometimes, controversial questions regarding different aspects of end-of-life decision-making and care. Since religious values are among the most influential factors in these decisions, the present study aimed to examine the Islamic scholars' views on end-of-life care. A structured int...

term to dramatically reduce the high incidence of HPAI in Bangladesh. We have progressively and dramatically increased the scope and benefi ts of our pilot PVC implementation program, but additional work is needed. To help spread PVC approaches throughout the country, community leaders, imams of local mosques, and school teachers can be trained to implement awareness programs on safe practices ...

In this paper we present a new approach to deal with attributed graphs and attributed graph transformation. This approach is based on working with what we call symbolic graphs, which are graphs labelled with variables together with a formula that constrains the possible values that we may assign to these variables. In particular, in this paper we will compare in detail this new approach with th...

This article depicts a chaplain's role in various learning and teaching situations, including end-of-life care and cases requiring cultural competency and gender preferences. The cases exemplify and underscore the difference between the role of a chaplain and the imam, as well as the necessity to have imams and both male and female chaplains in the hospital. It also describes the training, educ...

after the prophet death (pbuh), imam ali and other innocent             imams took efforts on protection, revival and teaching           prophetic tradition which was the interpretation of the holy   quran. they did necessary actions in this case such as:    invitation of imam ali from public to question about qur'anic exegesis, holding special sessions to teach quran     and its interpret...