11 Zen Communist: Breyten Breytenbach’s view from underground Andrew Nash Andrew Nash is an associate professor in the Department of Political Studies, University of Cape Town. He taught previously at the universities of Stellenbosch and the Western Cape, and was editorial director of Monthly Review Press in New York. His book on The Dialectical Tradition in South Africa was published in June 2...

Th e paper places the work of G. Gaus into the tradition of political thought experimenting. In particular, his strategy of modeling moral decision by the heuristic device of idealized Members of the Public is presented as an iterated thought experiment, which stands in marked contrast with more traditional devices like the veil of ignorance. Th e consequences are drawn, and issues of utopianis...

When congregations seek to address social needs, they often pursue this goal through acts of service and political engagement. Over the past three decades, a tremendous amount of research has been dedicated to analyzing congregation-based service provision and political participation. However, little is known about how congregations’ involvement in these arenas has changed during this period. T...

Osafo-Kwaako, Philip, and Robinson, James A.—Political centralization in pre-colonial Africa In this paper we investigate the empirical correlates of political centralization using data from the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample. We specifically investigate the explanatory power of the standard models of Eurasian state formation which emphasize the importance of high population density, inter-stat...

With an emphasis on its prominent historical points, this article attempts to take a fresh look at the evolution of political thought in Islam and Iran. This review attempts to identify the milestones of the history of political thought in Iran and in particular, in the Islamic world. By identifying them, the impact of each of the ideas of urban Iran, Sunni Islam, Shiite Islam, the Greek and th...

background regarding the increase in the prevalence of cardiovascular disease, efficient factors such as happiness seems vital in reducing hospitalization of cardiovascular patients. the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between stress coping styles, negative automatic thoughts, life quality and happiness in hospitalized cardiovascular patients in ahvaz, iran. material and m...

From the very beginning, logicians have counted practical (or action-oriented) reasoning as well as theoretical (or belief-oriented) reasoning as part of their subject. However, despite a tradition that continues to the present, logicians have not produced formalisms that could be considered of any use in designing an agent that needs to act intelligently, or in helping an intelligent agent to ...

BACKGROUND Bedside teaching is a patient-based teaching method in medical education. The present study has been conducted with the aim of investigating the quality of bedside teaching in the internal wards of Qaem and Imam Reza Educational Hospitals. METHODS This study follows a mixed qualitative-quantitative approach using checklists on educational clinical rounds in Imam Reza and Qaem Hospi...

1Department of Pediatric Gastroentrology, Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2Advanced Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Research Center (ADIR), Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3Department of Radiology, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 4Department of ...