in terms of time, iranian mystic seyyed jaafar kashfi belongs to the era that is known as the end of the political thought era, from the perspective of decline theory. however, he is one of the great thinkers of the qajar era who in his two books entitled “tohfat al-muluk” and “mizan al-muluk” presented his political thought on the basis of mystical way. the main question in this research is wh...

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We discuss paraphrasing controlled English texts, by defining two fragments of Attempto Controlled English (ACE): Core ACE and NP ACE. We show that these fragments have features that one would usually expect from paraphrases. We also describe a tool that paraphrases ACE sentences into these fragments.

K-SEC(Korean-Spoken English Corpus) is a kind of speech database that is under construction by the authors of this paper. This article discusses the needs of the K-SEC from various academic disciplines and industrial circles, and it introduces the characteristics of the K-SEC design, its catalogues and contents of the recorded database, exemplifying what are being considered from both Korean an...

BACKGROUND Uterine rupture is a tear in the wall of uterus which carries grave risks to the mother as well as her baby. OBJECTIVES To estimate uterine rupture bad outcomes using propensity score and its determinants in Mizan-Tepi University teaching hospital. METHODS A case control study on 363 participants, 121 cases and 242 controls, was conducted. Data was analyzed by STATA 14. Propensit...

J. Tímár1, R. Bazaz2, V. Kimler3, M. Haddad3, D. G. Tang2, D. Robertson4, J. Tovari1, J. D. Taylor3 and K. V. Honn2,5,* 11st Institute of Pathology and Experimental Cancer Research, The Semmelweis Medical University, Budapest, Hungary Departments of 2Radiation Oncology, Chemistry and Pathology, and 3Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit MI 48202, USA 4Institute of Cancer Research...

What are the factors that influence everyday attributions of cause and blame? The current studies focus on sequences of events that lead to adverse outcomes, and examine people's cause and blame ratings for key events in these sequences. Experiment 1 manipulated the intentional status of candidate causes and their location in a causal chain. Participants rated intentional actions as more causal...

BACKGROUND The applicability of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) in screening of insomnia is demonstrated in various populations. But, the tool has not been validated in a sample of Ethiopians. Therefore, this study aimed to assess its psychometric properties in community dwelling Ethiopian adults. MATERIAL AND METHODS Participants (n = 311, age = 25.5 ± 6.0 years and body mass index...