Agreed Fundamental Rules Relating to Sharia Ruling and Their Jurisprudence Applications

Sex-Reassignment Rules in Shiite Jurisprudence

BACKGROUND The "Sex-Reassignment Surgery" is a solution that besides behavioral therapy has been suggested to people suffering from gender identity disorders in recent years. In Iran, this trend has become more popular over the past years due to the inclination to reach to the goal rapidly with less effort and also the surgery has attracted many patients with the problem. Religious clerics have...

Legal ruling leads to 'light touch' review of resuscitation rules.

Relating Evolving Business Rules to Software Design

In order to remain useful, it is important for software to evolve according to the changes in its business environment. Business rules, which can be used to represent both user requirements and conditions to which the system should conform, are considered as the most volatile part in today’s software applications. Their changes bring high impact on both the business processes and the software i...

Ruling the Business: About Business Rules and Decision Tables

Business rules have become a common approach to understanding, specifying and implementing business processes. This new approach adds to the work that has been done in knowledge-based systems technology in such areas as knowledge acquisition, modeling, representation, validation and verification, inferencing, etc. Also, the decision table technique is continuously being used (and rediscovered) ...

Magentotactic bacteria and their applications

Magentotactic bacteria are the types of bacteria capable of orientation in an external magnetic field because of the ability to produce structures called magnetosomes. Magnetosomes, nanometer-scale structures, are present in most of the magnetotactice bacteria. They are intracellular organelles composed of magnetic iron mineral crystals individually surrounded by a phospholipid layer. Because o...