one of the most controversial issues in international commercial arbitrations in the last two decades is enforcement of arbitral awards which have been annulled in their country/ies of issuance or in broader word in their country/ies of origin. two contradictory opinions on the matter are based on two different approaches on territorial or extraterritorial effect of nullification of arbitral aw...

muhammad ibn jarir al-tabari (839-923) was a moslem historian and religious scholar whose annals are the most important source for the early history of islam. he is also a renowned author of a monumental commentary on the koran. at tabari wrote history, theology and qur'anic commentary. his legal writings were published first and then continued to appear throughout his life. next were his ...

The author-topic model is a generative model for documents that extends Latent Dirichilet Allocation to include authorship information, which is proposed by Michal Rosen-Zvi et al. The model connects each author to a multinomial distribution over topics and associated each topic with a words’ multinomial distribution. A document with multiple authors is modeled as a distribution over topics tha...

background: the purpose of this study was to detect the prevalence of ghost and honorary authors and its determinant factors in bio-medical journals of iran. methods: the study was done in 2009-10 in tehran, kerman, and iran medical universities, iran.  we contacted the first or corresponding authors of the papers had published papers in the recent two issues of iranian journal of public health...