Before an outstanding article in 1999 by Richard Holton, weakness of will was identified as an agent's action contrary to his or her better judgment, while other better choices are available. The contemporary account of weakness of will (i.e., Holton’s theory) explains it in terms of intention. Accordingly, weakness of will happens if an agent fails to stick to his or her previously formed inte...

Background As universal health coverage becomes the norm in many countries, it is important to determine public priorities regarding benefits to include in health insurance coverage. We report results of participation in a decision exercise among residents of Switzerland, a high-income country with a long history of universal health insurance and deliberative democracy.   Methods We adapted the...

oral cancer is a common neoplasm world-wide. the incidence and mortality have increased over the past decades. it is characterized by poor prognosis and a low survival rate despite sophisticated surgical and radiotherapeutic modalities. galectins are detected in a wide variety of tissues. the expression of galectins is modulated during the differentiation of individual cells and during the deve...

traditional work on pro-drop languages identified a set of parametric values ‎associated with the availability of null subjects, including the presence of null ‎expletive subjects. in the same vein, but more within the framework of minimalist ‎program, i will discuss while referential subjects may optionally be overt or covert ‎in the persian, expletives are obligatorily null. in this regard, a...

for last years, the evolution of new issues has incited a great development of the transportation system. in this paper, we discuss ingredients of its (intelligent transportation system) that are inter-vehicle communication (ivc) or what can call vehicular ad hoc networks (vanet), which are special type of manet. we will survey the main issues relevant to vanet in detail with providing a concep...

  Epilepsy is one of the most common chronic disorders affecting individuals of all ages. A greater understanding of pathogenesis in epilepsy will likely provide the basis fundamental for development of new antiepileptic therapies that aim to prevent the epileptogenesis process or modify the progression of epilepsy in addition to treatment of epilepsy symptomatically. Therefore, severa...