1M.Sc., Department of Biology, Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran 2Professor, Neuroscience Research Center, Baqiyatallah (a.s.) University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 4Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Islamic Azad University, ...

Religion plays a significant role in a patient’s bioethical decision to have an abortion as well as in a country’s abortion policy. Nevertheless, a holistic understanding of the Islamic position remains under-researched. This study first conducted a detailed and systematic analysis of Islam’s position towards abortion through examining the most authoritative biblical texts (i.e. the Quran and S...

Authority zones in the Domain Name System must be declared to have one or more authoritative name servers, usually consisting of one primary name server and several secondary name servers. These name servers are expected to synchronize zone data using DNS’s zone transfer protocols, but the configuration of these synchronization relationships depends upon out of band information and manual proce...

Masoud Sheikh, Hamid Reza Eshraghi, Masoud Khoshnia, Masoumeh Mazandarani & Abdolvahab Moradi* Department of Veterinary Basic Science, College of Veterinary Science, Science and Research branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran; Golestan Research Center of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran; Department of Botany, Gorgan Branch, Islamic Az...

Rouhollah Heydari*, Mohammad Hosseini, Mohammad Alimoradi and Sanaz Zarabi Razi Herbal Medicines Research Center, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences PO Bo x 68149-89468, Khorrsamabad, Iran. Young Researchers and Elite Club, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran. Department of Chemistr...

Nasim Nahavandi, Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran Hamid Eslami Nosratabadi, Young Researchers Club, Science and Research branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran Mohammad Abbasian, PhD Student of Industrial Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran Sanaz Pourdarab, Department of Information Technology Management, Science an...

1Department of Mathematics, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran 2Department of Mathematics, Islamic Azad University, Rasht Branch, Rasht, Iran 3Department of Health Administration, Pfeiffer University, Charlotte, USA 4Department of Mathematics, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran 5Department of Management Science, University of Science and Technology of China...

Context: The pilgrimage occurs from the 8th to 12th or 13th of Dhu al-Hijjah, the last month of the Islamic calendar, with a population of more than 2 million pilgrims in Mecca. Muslims have a series of verdicts in an appealing scenario such as Abraham the prophet. The Hajj pilgrimage is one of the most important verdicts in not only Islam but also all of the Abrahamian religions. Hajj is the 2...

Islamic finance is a prohibitions-driven industry, which aims primarily to circumvent the canonical Islamic prohibitions of riba and gharar. The concepts of riba and gharar may best be understood as unbundled sales of credit and risk, respectively. An obvious solution is to adopt mutual structures for financial intermediaries of credit (e.g. banks) and risk (e.g. insurance companies), as early ...