aim and background: some of obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) patients believe that their unpleasant thoughts can influence the external events. the aim of this study was to investigate the correlation between the contents of thought-action fusion and obsessive-compulsive symptoms in patients with ocd. methods and materials: in this cross-sectional correlative study 60 ocd patients selected b...

Let (Xn,i)1≤i≤n,n∈N be a triangular array of row-wise stationary R-valued random variables. We use a “blocks method” to define clusters of extreme values: the rows of (Xn,i) are divided into mn blocks (Yn,j), and if a block contains at least one extreme value the block is considered to contain a cluster. The cluster starts at the first extreme value in the block and ends at the last one. The ma...

asha, meaning order and honesty as apposed to anarchy and hypocrisy is the most significant principle of the anciant persian religion . there are some events and tales they are coloured by the asha principle . the manifestation of asha in such cases is the result of a certain religious experience known as the exegetic experience . the exegetic experience is in fact a religious interpretation an...

Event detection is a research area that attracted attention during the last years due to the widespread availability of social media data. The problem of event detection has been examined in multiple social media sources like Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and Facebook. The task comprises many challenges including the processing of large volumes of data and high levels of noise. In this article, we p...

nuclear facilities, though have large advantages for human being, they also creates heavy hazards. thus, the question of civil liability resulted from events of mentioned facilities are so significant. this paper studies the question of the basis and the responsible for compensation resulted from aforementioned events in international instruments, iran and french law. outcome of this study show...

Background and aims: Trends in deaths and medical admissions in the UK and Europe show evidence for a series of infectious-like events. These events have been overlooked by traditional surveillance methodologies. Preliminary evidence points to a rise in medical admissions in Australia around the same time as those observed in Europe, and this study was aimed to evaluate whether the deaths are o...

Thecrisis in Ukraine has become a tragedy, as is evidenced by the thousands ofpeople who have been killed, and hundreds of thousands of refugees. It willalter the future of Ukraine, Europe, Eurasia and possibly the world. The crisisbegan in the fall of 2013 as a public response to the authorities’ ill-advisedpolicy and the greed of the elite. However, clumsy assistance provided byconcerned «par...