Validation of narrations about Imam Sajjad's Mother being princess

Validation of the Persian Version of Spiritual Well-Being Questionnaires

Background: Spiritual well-being is an important issue in health sciences, hence the need for validated instruments to assess this aspect of health in the Iranian population. The aim of the current study was to determine the validity of the Persian versions of 2 most common measures of spiritual health (Spiritual Well-Being Questionnaire [SWBQ] or Spiritual Health and Life-Orientation Measure [...

Development and validation of preschool children’s well-being questionnaire

Abstract This research intends to examine the psychometric properties of the Preschool children well-being questionnaire (PCWQ) amongst mothers. The research method was correlation and validation through developing an instrument and reliability assessment. The sample consisted of 460 child selected by cluster multi-stage random sampling method. Preschool children well-being questionnaire was ev...

Being Realistic about Reasons

In my first lecture I listed seven questions about reasons that seemed to require answers. These were: Relational Character: Reasons are reasons for an agent. How is this relational character to be understood? Ground of Truth: In virtue of what are claims about reasons true, when they are true? Does the idea that claims about reasons are true or false, independent of our opinions about them, an...

Being Positive about Selection

H ow has language developed in humans and what genetic changes underlie our unique cognitive abilities? Accounts of positive selection that lead to such abilities in humans fascinate us because of the insight they provide into our own evolution, and into the many genetic differences that distinguish us from other apes. The genes that became fi xed in our lineage as a result of positive selectio...

Representing Audio Narrations of Photos

The Reflection of the Knowledge and Culture Contemporary to Islam's Lawgiver in Its Narrations about atonement

Certain crimes have been committed at the time of the Imams, and people have asked them of the atonement verdict. In some cases, the narrators have asked them of an assumed crime. None of these crimes have happened in a void, or in the mind of an empty minded narrator. They are all derived from the special circumstances of that period. So, careful examination of the crimes described in narratio...