Decision meetings may be considered inserted in a cycle of pre-meetings, meetings and post-meetings. The pre-meeting stage is useful for preparing the meeting and can be computer-supported. Aspects of the design of PRIME, a system intended for this purpose, are presented. The preparation of a meeting mainly consists of discussing the agenda beforehand. The discussion is organized in an IBIS-lik...

Breath testing has the potential to benefit the medical field as a cost-effective, non-invasive diagnostic tool for diseases of the lung and beyond. With growing evidence of clinical worth, standardization of methods, and new sensor and detection technologies the stage is set for breath testing to gain considerable attention and wider application in upcoming years.

Introduction. Currently, there is no holistic representation of the pedagogical system that developed in IX–XII centuries on territory Arab East and Central Asia. The reconstruction heritage will, firstly, let lay a value platform for determining coordinates development Islamic education present period; secondly, appeal to positive experience can contribute solution educational tasks modern Rus...

manuscript no. 3447 in national library of tabriz is a persian treatise which covers arithmetic, geometry, algebra, hayʾa and the topic of “masses and distances. the redaction of the text has been finished in 670ah/1271ad but we don’t know anything about the author of the treatise. in the two first chapters of his treatise (on arithmetic) the unknown author draws upon ʿabd al-qāhir al-baghdādī’...

the present study seeks to find out whether or not higher scores of bilingual and multilingual speakers in raven’s intelligence test owe a debt to their bi/ multilingualism. to this end, 50 abridged versions of raven’s test were randomly distributed among a population of almost 200 freshman university students out of which forty four booklets were returned at the end of administration sessions....

cases where bayt al-mal is responsible for payment of compensation are sometimes accompanied by intensification of compensation. the question is that whether bayt al-mal should pay the intensified compensation in such cases. this question has not been answered in juristic and, legal texts. in addition to causing difference in opinions, it has caused courts to doubt generalization of the intensi...