the subject of current article is a review of the rationalist beliefs of the mu’tazilite scholars of the 3rd century in regard to the issue of “imamate”. the first half of the 3rd century is a very special period of time in islamic history during which superiority of the doctrine of “rationalism” or “following wisdom and being reasonable” is highly evident. the issue of “leadership” or “imamate...

This article brings together tiles of 16th century Persian architecture and 21st century digital tiles of moving image to explore new potentials beyond the perceived image. As minimal parts of a bigger image, they both appear still and motionless. However, Persian Islamic philosopher, Mulla Sadrā Shirazi’s (1571-1640) theory of ‘substantial motion’ (al-harakat a...

shahrnushparsipur and marguerite duras are two contemporary iranian and french writers who share some similarities in their works due to the facts such as being a woman, a writer, an intellectual, living in a twenty century world and having experienced different feminist approaches and living in the east. the question is then what are these similarities? the research hypothesis based on the que...

Assisted vaginal birth rates are falling globally with rising cesarean delivery rates. Cesarean is not without consequence, particularly when carried out in the second stage of labor. entirely protective against pelvic floor morbidity and can lead to serious complications a subsequent pregnancy. It should be acknowledged that likelihood for mother baby associated increases advancing labor great...

Received 3 May 2001; electronically published 20 September 2001. Reprints or correspondence: Dr. Louis Z. Cooper (Lzcooper @compuserve.com). Clinical Infectious Diseases 2001; 33:1287 2001 by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved. 1058-4838/2001/3308-0002$03.00 By using serum specimens from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, Dykewicz et al. [1]...

Sample reactivity measurements performed at the fast-thermal coupled facilities RRR/SEG (RC Rossendorf) and STEK (ECN Petten) have been re-analyzed using the JNC standard route for reactor calculation JENDL-3.2 // SLAROM / CITATION / PERKY. The C/E-values are compared with results obtained with the competitive European scheme JEF-2.2 // ECCO / ERANOS. When using different input libraries, codes...