Social impact bonds are payment by results contracts that leverage private social investment to cover the up-front expenditure associated with welfare services. The introduction of private principles and actors through outcome-based commissioning has received a great deal of attention in social policy research. However, there has been much less attention given to the introduction of private cap...

This paper outlines a feasible employee premium contribution policy, which would reduce the inefficiency associated with adverse selection when a limited coverage insurance policy is offered alongside a more generous policy. The "efficient premium contribution" is defined and is shown to lead to an efficient allocation across plans of persons who differ by risk, but it may also redistribute aga...

Muslim physicians and Islamic jurists analyze the moral dimensions of biomedicine using different tools and processes. While the deliberations of these two classes of experts involve judgments about the deliverables of the other’s respective fields, Islamic jurists and Muslim physicians rarely engage in discussions about the constructs and epistemic frameworks that motivate their analyses. The ...

The objective of this article is to discuss the Islamic legal mechanism which will provide an opportunity to e-consumers who have suffered losses in online transactions to revoke contracts or collect arsh (compensation). Khiyar al-Tadlis (option of deceit or misrepresentation) is an Islamic legal feature that is not found in any other legal system, as it originates from the Islamic law of contr...

Department of Mathematics, Qaemshahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qaemshahr, Iran Business Systems and Analytics Department, Distinguished Chair of Business Analytics, La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA 19141, USA Business Information Systems Department, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, University of Paderborn, D-33098 Paderborn, Germany Young Researchers and Elite Club,...

Alireza Aslani 2 1 Department of Nanobiotechnology Research Center, Baqiyatallah University Medical of Science, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran, P. O. BOX: 19945-546, Tel: +98-9161161165, Email: [email protected], [email protected] . 2 Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Basic Science, Jundi Shapur University of Technology, Dizful, Islamic Republic of Iran, P. O. BOX: 64615-334, Tel:...

K. Fathi1∗, S.F. Bagheri2, M. Alizadeh3 ∗, M. Alizadeh4 Department of Statistics, North Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran 1 Department of Statistics, College of Basic Sciences, Yadegar-e-Imam Khomeini (RAH) Shahr-e-Rey Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran2 Branch of Mazandaran, Statistical Center of Iran3 Department of Mathematical since, University of Mazandaran, Mazandara...

This Article gives a brief overview of Islamic views on assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs). Islamic law is applied to ARTs to determine what may be lawful and/or moral and what may be impermissible. The article examines artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, surrogacy and cloning.

This work focuses on a controversial topic within women studies of the Islamic world, the very young marriage of Mohammad's second wife Aisha. The work attempts to meet the issue on level ground and explain that while this may seem as a spark on conflict between non-Muslim cultures and the Islamic world this marriage was not altogether that uncommon for the time.