Unlimited and mostly competing demands in health care systems even in developed societies, always force decision makers to choose among the priorities for allocation of resources. However, recent developments in health technology assessment (HTA) have created a better opportunity for allocation of limited resources available in health care systems. Although this tool has been used more frequent...

We have read the article written by AlKhawari et al. (1) published in the June 2005 issue of this journal with full interest. The authors have quoted sentences with reference to our article (2). Because certain phrases may be confusing to some readers, we would like to elucidate a few points. The authors stated that ‘Donation is sanctioned by religious and national law in Iran (although there i...

The Islamic Republic of Iran has a long history of medicine. The principles derived from core Islamic teachings provide a comprehensive moral, ethical, and legal framework for the practice of medicine. The issue of brain death has significant impact on the procurement of organs from cadavers. It is a major subject of debate and interest to bioscientists, legal experts, religious scholars, and t...

This paper estimates reduced-form Phillips curves for Brazil with a framework of time series with unobserved components, in the spirit of Harvey (2011). However, we allow for expectations to play a key role using data from the Central Bank of Brazil’s Focus survey. Besides GDP, we also use industrial capacity utilization rate and IBC-Br index, as measures of economic activity. Our findings supp...

To improve accuracy and reliability, Boolean combination (BC) can efficiently integrate the responses of multiple biometric systems in the ROC space. However, BC techniques assume that recognition systems are conditionally-independent and that their ROC curves are convex. These assumptions are rarely valid in practice, where systems face complex environments, and are designed using limited enro...

Data-Driven Inversion-Based Control (D-IBC) is a recently introduced control design method for uncertain nonlinear systems, relying on a two degree-of-freedom architecture, with a nonlinear controller and a linear controller running in parallel. In this paper, extending to the MIMO case a previous result holding for the SISO case, we derive a finite-gain stability sufficient condition for a clo...

a jurisprudential and legal survey on reflection of fairness in the special legal acts siroos shahriyari [1] hamid miri (ph.d.) [2]     abstract with a view to foreign and domestic law and jurisprudence, it is appeared that there are streaks of making attention to the fairness factor behind of confronting some special legal acts such as usury and mortgage contracts, penal and non-liability clau...