by considering as incomplete the peripatetics’ method in achieving reality, shaykh ishrāq (suhrawardī) has chosen the method of insight and intuition. but what position do thought and proof have in his method? it is implied from some of his statements that thinking and proof have no place in his method and some of his other statements imply the opposite. one of the solutions of this apparent in...

A kind of hot spots detection alarm device and method is proposed in the paper about infrared thermal imaging, including the hardware design, algorithm, software realization. The hardware mainly includes the infrared thermal imaging camera and intelligent analysis board; the algorithm uses connected component detection method based on run length to extract target rectangle coordinates. This des...

sayyed mortaza is one of the noble imami scholors in 4-5th century and an specialist in some different islamic disciplines such as fegh, kalam, tafsir. he believed the preference of reason in explaining and criticizing of the traditions. this article addresses his views on relation of reason and narration. he uses reason to criticize and interpret narrations. reason in his view has an independe...

INTRODUCTION In his classic essay "The phenomenological approach to psychopathology", Karl Jaspers defended the irreducible reality of the "subjective" mental symptoms and stressed the pivotal role of empathy in their diagnostic assessment. However, Jaspers' account of the epistemological role of empathy in psychopathological diagnosis was far from clear: whereas at several places Jaspers claim...

The goal of this exercise was to provide estimates of the mother-to-child transmission rate (TR) of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), calculated according to standardized methods. Prospective cohort studies in Africa (8), the Caribbean (1), Europe (3), and the U.S.A. (1) observed from birth children born to women known to be HIV infected at the time of delivery. TRs were calculated a...