using analytical method of usul al-fiqh, the present essay deals with opinions of shiite usulis on this question whether continuity of the previous state can be used with regard to time, temporal affairs, and affairs conditioned upon time. as for the first, we investigate opinions of usulis in this connection first, answer the problem of lack of doubt as to subsistence and that of lack of unity...

We present a model of dynamic resource allocation in a setting where continuity of service is important and future resource availability is uncertain. The paper is inspired by the challenges faced by HIV clinics in resource-limited settings in the allocation of scarce HIV treatment among a large pool of eligible patients. Many clinics receive insufficient supply to treat all patients and the su...

Background. Reliable predictive factors for therapy outcome may enable treating physicians to counsel their patients more efficiently concerning probability of improvement or time point of discontinuation of a certain therapy. Methods. This is a retrospective analysis of 87 patients with exudative age-related macular degeneration who received three monthly intravitreal ranibizumab injections. V...

The Religious Courts are the only legal institution authorized to resolve sharia economic disputes, based on Law Number 3 of 2006 concerning Courts. This is also supported by Supreme Court Regulation 14 2016 Procedures for Settlement Sharia Economic Cases. However, there still many business/shariah banking cases in commercial courts where submissions tug-of-war a dichotomy between absolute comp...

1 The first section of a three-part article on Compstat, an information-driven managerial process, examines four crime-reduction principles that form the basis of the technique. Agencies must ensure that they are prepared to handle situations involving officers in crisis. 26 Eight Supreme Court decisions of particular importance to law enforcement are summarized. Contributors' opinions and stat...

Although Medicaid is regarded as a federal entitlement program, nowhere does the Medicaid statute explicitly recognize a federal right of action to enforce recipients' rights. Arguably, the Supreme Court, rather than Congress, first recognized the right of Medicaid recipients to protection of federal law. A controversial 2001 federal court decision, however, called into question the continuing ...

Using a pooled data set consisting of 20 annual observations on each of eleven major industry groups, I estimate the effects of overtime pay regulation on weekly work schedules. After controlling for workweek trends within industries, the sharp expansions in overtime pay coverage resulting from legislative amendments and Supreme Court decisions produced no discernible impact on overtime hours. ...

Organic steer production demand several decisions concerning grazing strategy, feeding level in the winter and factors as slaughter weight and length of the fattening period. The production can be difficult to optimise, therefore the objective of this study was to describe a model developed to optimise the fattening and slaughter strategy of steer production concerning economy at an individual ...

The design of a decision support system for capacity planning in clinical laboratories is discussed. The DSS supports decisions concerning the following questions: how should the laboratory be divided into job shops (departments/sections), how should staff be assigned to workstations and how should samples be assigned to workstations for testing. The decision support system contains modules for...