the encounter of the qur’an and the prophet (a.s) with women’s presence in social-religious and political arenas is one of the important subjects considered by the orientalists. in her article, “women and the state in early islam”, nabia abbott has investigated this subject. her extensive knowledge about the qur’an and the prophetic tradition requires us to pay a special attention to her viewpo...

This article investigates the antecedents, experience and consequences of service in the lives of rural-born Dutch women within the urbanizing and industrializing context of the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth. The decision to enter service was often taken by the girl’s parents against the background of a distress-ridden household. From the latter part ...

0. Introduction In order to understand what is going on when phonology is acquired we clearly need to understand what is being acquired. We need to understand what phonology is, and what aspects of it have to be learned. have deepened our understanding of the phonological component of the human linguistic system, its interfaces with other components and the extent and nature of cross-linguistic...

This article was accepted under the editorship of David A. F. Haaga. This paper is drawn from a doctoral dissertation by the first author, entitled “Parenting and Family Support in Primary Care Settings,” which was supervised by the second author. Special thanks go to Dr. Jan Nicholson, School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, who as associate supervisor provided invaluable...

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this article investigates father's role in child and adolescent psychopathology. the role of mother has been studied extensively, but the father's role in child psychopathology has been studied much less and is limited to what has been done in the past few decades. this article reviews some of the studies regarding father's role in child and adolescent psychopathology, namely att...

In this issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases, Sakabe et al report that the polymerase acidic (PA) protein component of the H5N1 influenza RNA-dependent RNA polymerase affects cytokine production in human macrophages and may be important in determining pathogenicity in mice [1]. They imply that PA may be relevant to the increased mortality mediated by hypercytokinemia in H5N1 infection in...