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only a nice man can be a nice physician

imam ali (peace be upon him) told that physicians must have pietism and don’t abstain from guidance, advice and diligence. islam religion recognizes medicine as an allowable and necessary profession.  prophet mohammad (pbuh) and imams (pbuh) tell that sage physician status in their science, art and tasks like jurisconsult scientist status. more than one thousand years ago, abubakr rabei ebne ah...

How NICE may be outflanked.

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Paying to Be Nice: Consistency and Costly Prosocial Behavior

Building on previous research in economics and psychology, we propose that the costliness of initial prosocial behavior positively influences whether that behavior leads to consistent future behaviors. We suggest that costly prosocial behaviors serve as a signal of prosocial identity and that people subsequently behave in line with that self-perception. In contrast, costless prosocial acts do n...

Why It's Nice to be Quoted: Quasiquoting for Prolog

Prolog’s support for dynamic programming, meta programming and text processing using context free grammars make the language highly suitable for defining domain specific languages (DSL) as well as analysing, refactoring or generating expression states in other (programming) languages. Well known DSLs are the DCG (Definite Clause Grammar) notation and constraint languages such as CHR. These exte...

Wouldn’t It Be Nice? Predicting Future Feelings