INTRODUCTION Organ transplantation in Libya depends exclusively on donations from live relatives. This limitation increases mortality and prolongs the patients' suffering and waiting time. OBJECTIVES The aims of this study were to explore willingness to donate organs after death and to identify the reasons for refusal. METHODS A population-based crosssectional study was conducted from April...

This article deals with an important topic (youth smoking) and makes a contribution to the literature by validating existing research and extending our understanding of smoking resistance strategies. This study classified adolescent reports of their responses to cigarette smoking offers utilizing four drug refusal strategies of refuse, explain, avoid, and leave (REAL) and explored how personali...

in this article, the author deals with the critical study of rorty and gadamer's doctrines on truth through analyzing its undesirable epistemological and political consequences. rorty denies truth and believes that it is merely the indicator of sentences specification. but gadamer does not deny truth and believes it is as event of appearance which flourishes from within the dialogue and ma...

the purpose of this study was to examine cook’s (2003) ‘multiple competence’ by investigating backward pragmatic transfer (from l2 [english] to l1 [persian]) in refusals to invitations. it explored participants’ frequency and content of refusal strategies in l1 regarding the status (i.e., power and distance) of interlocutors and the proficiency level of efl learners. the participants were persi...

I examine the economic costs and benefits of granting a right of first refusal to one of two bidders in a procurement auction. This right permits the favored bidder to win a contract by matching the bid of the competing bidder. Such a right, is often observed in business interactions, especially procurement. It is commonly thought that the right of first refusal lowers the payoff to the auction...