the present article studies the quran's view on free will and freedom. some related issues discussed here are: (1) human freedom is the basis of the creation; (2) respecting human freedom is the basis of the prophet's invitation of the people to islam; (3) political freedom is the foundation of forming political societies, and so on. with reference to the quranic verses and moslem sch...

In Yoruba traditional thought, human destiny has a mysterious power that controls events. It is believed every person their life history before coming to the world. This implies anything one does not something done out of free will in fulfillment preordained or sequence However, such controversial understanding meaning, nature, relevance and reality concept (ayanmo), which long elicited philoso...

Large, free polymannose oligosaccharides generated during glycoprotein biosynthesis rapidly appear in the cytosol of HepG2 cells where they undergo processing by a cytosolic endo H-like enzyme and a mannosidase to yield the linear isomer of Man5GlcNAc (Man[alpha 1-2]Man[alpha 1-2]Man[alpha 1-3][Man alpha 1-6]Man[beta 1-4] GlcNAc). Here we have examined the fate of these partially trimmed oligos...

nursing manpower plays a key role in the quality of care and health promotion. so considering efficient and qualified nursing units is necessary for any health care organization without which they can’t survive long. this study was aimed to estimate the nursing manpower required by the imam khomeini and razi hospitals affiliated with jundishapur university of medical sciences in accordance with...

1. Studies were carried out to test the assumptions involved in the calculation of free fatty acid (FFA) and triglyceride transport rates from the plasma radioactivity curves after the intravenous administration of labelled fatty acid or of pre-labelled lipoprotein triglyceride. 2. Plasma FFA equilibrates reversibly with the interstitial lymph. This makes it necessary to use either a pulse inje...

We review gases that can affect oxidative stress and that themselves may be radicals. We discuss O(2) toxicity, invoking superoxide, hydrogen peroxide, and the hydroxyl radical. We also discuss superoxide dismutase (SOD) and both ground-state, triplet oxygen ((3)O(2)), and the more energetic, reactive singlet oxygen ((1)O(2)). Nitric oxide ((*)NO) is a free radical with cell signaling functions...

The discourses of Antillanité and Créolité are both based on the absence of women. This is more important in the discourse of Créolité since it silences the grandmothers, great aunts and village midwives who are the transmitters of folk tales, folk medicines and oral culture. In the struggle for recognition between Caribbean males and western males folk medicine may be too closely associated wi...

concept of “economic man” is one of the principal assumptions of economic approach to law. based on this assumption, economic approach, a modern and leading school of thought in legal philosophy, seeks to explain and predict individual behavior in legal framework and make recommendations and prescriptions so as to improve the effects of laws and regulations on legal actors. in this paper, in ad...