the study of wills in the pre - islamic period and first islamic period (relying on abd shams wills and abubakar wills)

Dispensing with Wills' Act Formalities for Substantively Valid Wills

The House That Wills' Built

A discussion of the contribution made by David Wills to the residential care of young people prompted by his book on the Reynolds House experiment.

Living wills and religious communities.

Advance directives and living wills.

The article focuses on the philosophical, ethical and juridical problems concerning Advance directives and Living Wills (underlining analogies and differences). The author makes a critical comparison between the theories supporting Living Wills (the liberal theory appealing to the principle of self-determination and the utilitarian theory on the "quality of life") and the reasons against them (...

on translation of politeness strategies in dialogues involving female characters in translations and retranslations of novels translated before and after the islamic revolution of iran and their effects on the image of women: a polysystem theory approach

abstract reception environment has considerable effects on accepting a translation. as the expectations of a target culture and its values and needs change throughout history, its criteria for accepting a translation or rejecting it will change accordingly (gentzler, 2001). the expectations of iran, as the reception environment in the present study, have changed after the islamic revolution. i...

The Wills Functional and Gaussian Processes

The Wills functional from the theory of lattice point enumeration can be adapted to produce the following exponential inequality for zero mean Gaussian processes: Ee sup t (X t ?(1=2) 2 t) e E sup t X t : An application is a new proof of the deviation inequality for the supremum of a Gaussian process above its mean: P (sup t X t ? E sup t X t a) e ?(1=2)a 2 == 2 ; where a > 0 and 2 = sup t 2 t .