this paper represents a commentary to marianna fotaki’s editorial: ‘why and how is compassion necessary to provide good quality healthcare?’ within this commentary, i discuss some of the issues raised by marianna fotaki, and conclude that we should work towards an organizational culture which considers the important concept of compassion by focusing on the well-being and teamwork of all involved.

in this article the impact of mulla sadra’s philosophical opinions concerning necessary being on his understanding of the qur’anic verses is critically reviewed. to this end, all exegetical and philosophical books of mulla sadra have been studied and the instances in which he has–under the influence of the above opinions– inferred meanings other that the apparent meanings from the qur’anic vers...

avicenna has divided the conditionals to the real cogent (i.e. with possible antecedent) and the verbal cogent (i.e. with the impossible antecedent). denying the truth of the latter, he caused controversies among moslem logicians. at the paper, we report the controversies, analyze the real and verbal cogent conditionals, formalize them in modern modal and relevant logics, and finally, defend id...

background: smoking is a well‑known public health problem in women as well as men. in many countries including iran, there is an increase in tobacco use among women. exploring the experience of smoking by educated women in order to develop effective tobacco prevention programs in these women is necessary. this study aimed to explore the experiences of smoking among iranian educated women. metho...

in this paper, we investigate a problem of finding natural condition to assure the product of two graphs to be hamilton-connected. we present some sufficient and necessary conditions for $gbox h$ being hamilton-connected when $g$ is a hamilton-connected graph and $h$ is a tree or $g$ is a hamiltonian graph and $h$ is $k_2$.

Clinical trials have a long history of well established, documented, and validated methods for design, conduct, and analysis. Appropriate study design includes sufficient sample size (n) and statistical power, and control of bias to allow for a meaningful interpretation of the results. The number of participants in a clinical trial should always be large enough to provide a sufficiently precise...

With around five million people accessing anti-retroviral treatment, which significantly reduces mortality and extends life, the HIV pandemic now exists in a context of treatment possibility, if not access. This paper discusses ways in which the pandemic is becoming naturalised through medicalisation, normalisation and marketisation, and how these processes undermine themselves internally. The ...