what features and advantages does the prophet have which distinguish him from others? to answer this question, the writer names three approaches: 1. epistemical approach, 2. responsibility approach, and 3, situational approach. in the first approach, he examines various viewpoints which all view divine knowledge (ma‘rifat) as the prophet's distinctive feature. in the second approach, the s...

OBJECTIVES Remission is a widely accepted goal for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) but has to be sustained to arrest joint damage and disability. However, appropriate criteria for the assessment of sustained remission in long-term studies are not established. Therefore, we have compared the disease activity score calculated on 28 joints (DAS28) remission criterion, the Simplified Disease...

We provide a Hilbert-Mumford Criterion for actions of reductive groups G on Q-factorial complex varieties. The result allows to construct open subsets admitting a good quotient by G from certain maximal open subsets admitting a good quotient by a maximal torus of G. As an application, we show how to obtain all invariant open subsets with good quotient for a given G-action on a complete Q-factor...

Flooding is a natural hazard. In this regard, the topic of floodprone area management being actively explored. The study issue combination two aspects - environmental and economic. economic assessment consequences flooding single cost model based on an criterion. Characteristics such as depth, duration rate have greatest influence severity subsequent damage. Standard damage tables are usually s...

The nautical bottom (i.e., the level at which contact with a ship's keel causes either damage or unacceptable effects on controllability and manoeuvrability of ship) should be associated to measurable physical characteristic. Bulk density is typically used as criterion for by many ports worldwide. However, rheological properties particularly yield stress mud are eventually more suitable paramet...

X-ray tomography can provide structural information of whole cells in close to their native state. Radiation-induced damage, however, imposes a practical limit to image resolution, and as such, a choice between damage, image contrast, and image resolution must be made. New coherent diffractive imaging techniques, such Fresnel Coherent Diffractive Imaging (FCDI), allows quantitative phase inform...

In order to obtain better generalization performance in supervised learning, model parameters should be determined appropriately, i.e., they should be determined so that the generalization error is minimized. However, since the generalization error is inaccessible in practice, the model parameters are usually determined so that an estimator of the generalization error is minimized. The regulari...

Regurgitation in the heart diastolic phase represents a critical flow condition associated with many heart valve design considerations. The finite volume method, the Low-Reynolds-Number k-ω turbulent model and sliding mesh model are employed to solve and compare the complex flow field and the torque in each case. The end results expected from a cardiovascular CFD analysis are not limited only t...

The maculae of rhesus monkeys were exposed to an argon-ion lazer operated in the TEM00 continuous wave mode at a wavelength of 514.5 nm. Both ophthalmoscopic and histopathologic evaluations of exposure sites were obtained. Threshold (ED50) values were obtained for 0.5, 5, 30, 120, and 1,000 sec. exposure times. Presence of minimum visible lesions was assessed ophthalmoscopically at both 1 hour ...