in this paper attempts have been made to study the discourses dominating political islam to answer these questions: how can one categorize these diverse political islam discourses? what are the similarities and differences among these discourses in general, and with the islamic revolution discourse in particular? the research methodology employed for this study is historical-comparative and the...

one of the quranic concepts concerning the hereafter is the lofty barrier (araf) and their men regarding which the words of revelation of 46-49 in araf surah in the holy quran have pointed this concept. there are different viewpoints among commentators concerning what and where the lofty barrier is, and also who the men of the lofty barrier are. regarding this, different viewpoints have been ta...

Zahn et al. publish the latest analyses from the Carotid Artery Stent (CAS) Registry of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Leitende Kardiologische Krankenhausartzte (ALKK) of Germany. This reports outcomes following CAS in octogenarians (n 1⁄4 321) compared with younger patients (n 1⁄4 2557). As indicated in the introduction, this analysis was prompted by conflicting published data regarding the safety of...

We present in this paper the first example of chaotic evolutionary dynamics in biology. We consider a Lotka-Volterra tritrophic food chain composed of a resource, its consumer, and a predator species, each characterized by a single adaptive phenotypic trait, and we show that for suitable modeling and parameter choices the evolutionary trajectories approach a strange attractor in the three-dimen...

Objective: The management of asymptomatic cholelithiasis is controversial. Silent gallstones are generally assumed to cause complications after at least one episode biliary colic. ratio those silent stones that had initially caused, -or were diagnosed as the etiological agent of- acute pancreatitis has not been reported in literature yet. Our study was designed investigate cases. Material and M...