hearsay in common law, is a statement made out-of-court and offered in court as evidence to prove the truth of the assertion made in the statement. the hearsay rule states that hearsay is not admissible unless provided by exceptions in the rules of evidence or courts’ precedents. the test for determining hearsay is whether a statement was made out of court and is being offered in order to prove...

the administrative system is a means of achieving the goals of political, economic, social and cultural systems of any society. it seems the nature and content of administrative management system affected by the construction and nature of governing system in every society. thus, there is a proactive relationship between these systems. therefore competency-based administrative system is equivale...

In this study a simulation-optimization model is developed for deriving operation rule-curves in drought ‎periods. To each reservoir, two rule-curves with adjustable monthly levels are introduced dividing the ‎reservoir capacity into three zones between the normal water level and minimum operation level. To each ‎zone of a reservoir and for each month of the year a hedging coefficient is introd...

when in doubt over duty and the absence of reason, it is the time for adhering to practical principle; but, there is disagreement among principalists as to what is the rimary rule in times of doubt. some scholars including nāīnī have accepted intellectual innocence as a primary rule, whereas others - especially shahīd sadr -believe in intellectual precaution. nāīnī refers to the rule ‘the indec...

L ong before there was psychiatry, there was the insanity defense. The idea that the insane should not be punished for otherwise criminal acts began to develop in the twelfth century as part of the more general idea that criminal punishment should be imposed only on persons who were morally blameworthy. In the thirteenth century, Bracton, the first medieval jurist to deal with the subject of in...

this paper considers the automatic design of fuzzy rule-basedclassification systems based on labeled data. the classification performance andinterpretability are of major importance in these systems. in this paper, weutilize the distribution of training patterns in decision subspace of each fuzzyrule to improve its initially assigned certainty grade (i.e. rule weight). ourapproach uses a punish...

this paper proposes a three-step method for solving nonlinear volterra integralequations system. the proposed method convents the system to a (3 × 3)nonlinear block system and then by solving this nonlinear system we ndapproximate solution of nonlinear volterra integral equations system. to showthe advantages of our method some numerical examples are presented.

background: the present study assesses independent predictors of clinically important traumatic brain injury (citbi) in order to design a prognostic rule for identification of high risk children with mild head injury. materials and methods: in a retrospective cross-sectional study, 3,199 children with mild traumatic brain injury (tbi) brought to emergency ward of three hospitals in tehran, iran...