the name of sadegh hedayat(1903-1951) reminds many people of a pioneering author in fiction, with works having a lot of advocates and opponents.  hence, many studies have been conducted regarding his works in the area of stories and translation from french, but his researches on and translations from the pahlavi language has less been noticed and analysed, however, he was one of the leading aut...

Methods and results Geneva prison (for men and women) has 300 beds and serves as a remand prison and for short and medium term sentences. One fifth of the prisoners are dependent on opiates at entry. For our study we cross checked prison medical records with medicolegal necropsv reports in the Canton of Geneva. During 1982-6, 102 sudden deaths among former prisoners were recorded, of which a la...

Intelligent Design Theory (ID) has been much maligned recently as Neo-Creationist pseudoscience. This paper looks briefly at the common arguments used against ID, including arguments from methodological naturalism (MN), falsifiability, productivity, and religious fundamentalism. Ultimately it goes on to explain why the theory could be beneficial to our society today and suggests a need for a me...

Recently, a number of usage data representations have emerged that enable the representation of user activities across system and application boundaries. Based on these user activity data, systems can adapt to the users and provide personalized information. A lot of usage data representation formats are already successfully used in real world applications. However, dependent on the purpose, the...

Authors Erik K Fromme, MD Mary Denise Smith, RN, CNS Section Editors Robert M Arnold, MD Kenneth E Schmader, MD Deputy Editor Diane MF Savarese, MD Disclosures: Erik K Fromme, MD Nothing to disclose. Mary Denise Smith, RN, CNS Nothing to disclose. Robert M Arnold, MD Consultant/Advisory Boards: VitalTalk [Palliatalk (nonprofit)].Kenneth E Schmader, MD Grant/Research/Clinical Trial Support: Merc...

literary and artistic joint works are prepared by two or more authors. it's importance, have increasingly grown today, particularly in academic areas. one of the issues related to these works is the problem of identifying the concept and realization of the joint works in the different legal systems which has similarities and differences. this research is a comparative study in mentioned is...