the imams of ahl al-bayt (‘a) have applied three methods in dealing with rulers as follows: taqiyyah (assimilation), armed struggle, and occultation. they have applied taqiyyah for keeping the unity among muslims and their followers. this does not mean that they have kept silent and did not care about muslims, rather they had active role in social life. an example of this active role is the ima...

This article seeks to interrogate the construction of identities in Edgar Tekeres A Lifetime of Struggle for the purposes of establishing political legitimacy and heroism for himself.This article observers that the autobiographical narrator attempts to achieve this end through constructing heroic identities on a multiplicity of sites such as heredity, military,prisoner,welfare,masculine,intelle...

Although wild-type alleles are generally dominant over mutant alleles, recently established alleles for pesticide resistance are rarely recessive in combination with their progenitors. This seems to be caused by a combination of a 'selective sieve' favouring non-recessive mutations, and the biochemical basis of resistance.

Rather than a complete overview of the contribution of Utrecht to stroke research, I have selected a few subjects and attempt to put these in historical context. Johann Jakob Wepfer (1620–1695) was unique in that he approached ‘apoplexy’ through post-mortem observations, in the tradition of Padua. However, the interpretation of his findings in haemorrhagic and especially non-haemorrhagic stroke...

In this paper we analyze the endogenous determination of migration quota viewing it as an outcome of a two-stage political struggle between two interest groups: those in favor and those against the proposed migration quota. We first compare the proposed policies of the two interest groups under random behavior of the government, with and without lobbying. The paper proceeds with the examination...

In various diseases, such as cancer, autoimmune disease, sepsis or myocardial infarction, elevated levels of circulating DNA can be measured. However, its predictive value is under debate. Circulating DNA in plasma is protein-bound (nucleosomal) DNA. Quantification of circulating DNA can be performed by real-time quantitative PCR or immunological methods such as ELISA. The diagnostic value of b...

In this paper, we propose a competitive image segmentation algorithm. It is a dynamic evolving optimization method, which we call the population algorithm. The method is inspired from nature, where the image segments are a population of entities that struggle for the limited image space and settle territory expansion con icts locally without central authority. Hence, it is a region-based segmen...

The main aim of this paper was to present some pioneer women neurologist, their struggle to pursue their career and the barriers mainly encountered at the beginning of their professional lives. It was also presented the progressive increasing of the feminine participation in medicine and in the neurology with study based on data of the School of Medicine of the Federal University of Rio de Jane...

uniform, utilizes any tactic, and swears its allegiance not to a government, but an ideology. However, governmental entity since the city-state of Athens fought Melos over two thousand years ago. This enigma is asymmetrical warfare. The only way to truly study asymmetrical warfare is to take into account its long history. Thus, measure the relationship between the duration of asymmetrical war a...

objectives: low back pain is one of the main health problems which affect many people worldwide. the daily course of life is highly disrupted due to the chronic back pain problem. this study aims to explore the occupational performance of individuals with chronic low back pain. methods: fifteen people with chronic low back pain were included in this study using purposeful sampling. the particip...