background: emotion-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (ecbt) is a new form of cbt with emotion regulation components. this form of treatment is suggested to be employed to improve dysregulation of anxiety and other kind of emotions in anxious children.this study observed and compared the effectiveness of cbt and ecbt on anxiety symptoms; sadness and anger management;and cognitive emotion reg...

This study explains the history, current problems, and future possibilities of Islamic insurance (takaful) in Bangladesh. To articulate these issues, the researcher has adopted the qualitative method, and data has been collected through secondary sources i.e. articles, books, and online resources. The study reveals that Islamic insurance in Bangladesh is regulated by the Insurance Act 2010 whic...

Two studies of the correlates of self-reported courtship persistence, stalking-like behaviors following a relationship break-up, and psychological maltreatment of partners were conducted in samples of male (N = 46 and 93) and female (N = 123 and 110) college students. Approximately 40% (38.5% and 44.6%) engaged in at least one stalking behavior following a break-up. A total of 10.7% (study 1) a...

This paper discusses the detection of missing annotation disagreements (MADs), in which an annotator misses annotating an annotation instance while her counterpart correctly annotates it. We employ annotator eye gaze as a clue for detecting this type of disagreement together with linguistic information. More precisely, we extract highly frequent gaze patterns from the pre-extracted gaze sequenc...

BACKGROUND Juvenile violent offending is a serious worldwide public health issue. OBJECTIVE The study examined whether the Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY) can be used to predict violent reoffending in Chinese male juvenile offenders, and to determine which risk/protective domains (items) are associated with violent recidivism. METHODS A total of 246 male juvenile off...

In Islamic Finance (IF hereafter), the safety-first rule of investing (hifdh almal) is held to be of utmost importance. According to the honesty principle (amanah), the Islamic portfolio manager (mudharib) is committed to do his best to fulfill this investing rule. This involves the use of the most appropriate management tools. The use of the normal assumption in the financial modeling is growi...

1Malaria Research Group, Biotechnology Department, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. 2Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. 3Centre for Diseases Management and Control, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. 4Public Health Department, Ardebil University of Medical Science, Ardebil, Islamic Republic of Iran. ...