The first part of this paper argues that if Craver’s ([2007a], [2007b]) popular mutual manipulability account (MM) of mechanistic constitution is embedded within Woodward’s ([2003]) interventionist theory of causation—for which it is explicitly designed—it either undermines the mechanistic research paradigm by entailing that there do not exist relationships of constitutive relevance or it gives...

lebanon enjoyed the constitution in 1924. in other words, this is the second country in middle east after iran which has enjoyed the constitution. lebanon is considered as the pattern of the islam world and west world which enjoys both rich culture of islam and culture and rules of west. lebanon has the distinguished status in comparison with islamic and arabic countries and the whole countries...

Parliamentary and Presidential Democracies: Which One is Best? With the exception of the United States, where a system of separation of executive and legislative powers exists, all countries that are considered to be stable democracies adopt a constitution that is, at least partially, parliamentary. A parliamentary constitution is characterized by the fusion of executive and legislative powers,...

A constitution forms the foundation of the virtually all governments around the world. A surprisingly large number of constitutions change each year. On average, 30 constitutions are amended and 5 are completely replaced each year. Despite this level of change, no country changes its constitution often enough for the country’s officials to gain much experience as constitutional drafters. In ord...

The constitution of the United States is to receive a reasonable interpretation of its language, and its powers, keeping in view the objects and purposes, for which those powers were conferred. By a reasonable interpretation, we mean, that in case the words are susceptible of two different senses, the one strict, the other more enlarged, that should be adopted, which is most consonant with the ...

The aim of the present study is to develop an accurate constitution diagnostic method based solely on the individual's physical characteristics, irrespective of psychologic traits, characteristics of clinical medicine, and genetic factors. In this paper, we suggest a novel method for diagnosing constitutional types using only speech and face characteristics. Based on 514 subjects, the area unde...

objective: this study determined the chromosomal constitution of recurrent spontaneous abortions by comparative genomic hybridization (cgh) analysis of fetal samples. material and methods:   forty pregnant women with early recurrent pregnancy losses aged 21 to 42 years old from tehran university of medical sciences affiliated hospitals entered in this descriptive study. hibridization analysis o...

islamic republic of iran constitution is the product of islamic revolution which triumphed under the commandment of imam khomeini (pbuh). since imam khomeini (pbuh) had identified thoughts about basic governmental theorems, it could be inquired that how imam khomeini governmental thoughts had affected the formation of constitution of the islamic republic of iran and in what extend it could be e...

Background: We aimed in this study to evaluate the constitution status of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in metabolic obesity normal weight (MONW) and the genetic effectors of this phenotype from single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) and DNA methylation modification. Methods: One to one matched case-control study was conducted in our research. We conducted the standardized Constitution in C...