introduction: in spite of the vast improvement in the area of mental health care delivery in this country, very little attention has been given to the mental health registry. considering the absence of an appropriate national mental health registry system in iran, the purpose of the present study was to formulate a preliminary model for mental health registry in iran. methods: in this comparati...

In this first chapter we give a brief overview over the historical origin of the relatively young field in science called Artificial Life. Besides which, we try to give the reader an idea of the controversial understandings of Natural Life and the comparatively straight-forward definition of Artificial Life. In the third part of this first chapter we introduce the main methodology used in Artif...

We used data from the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) to study the growth of physician malpractice payments. Judgments at trial account for 4 percent of all malpractice payments; settlements account for the remaining 96 percent. The average payment grew 52 percent between 1991 and 2003 (4 percent per year) and now exceeds dollar 12 per capita each year. These increases are consistent wit...

The author of chapter three in Women in Ministry, a professor of New Testament and Christian Origins, provides an overview of the forms of ministry that existed in the New Testament and early church. The purpose of the chapter is to warn against “structural fundamentalism” on church organization which, he explained, is “the idea that one pattern of church organization and ministry was laid down...