Background and Objectives: Euthanasia is one of the major challenges in philosophical, medical, ethical, legal, and religious circles that has fueled many debates. The aim of this study was to investigate prediction of students' attitudes toward euthanasia using their religious orientation, self-esteem, and death anxiety. Methods: The samples of this descriptive-correlational study were 247 st...

Cerny’s conjecture is a 50 year old conjecture which concerns the combinatoral field of synchronizing automata. In particular, it postulates that the maximal length of the minimal reset word among all n-state automata is (n − 1). We present a proof for Pin’s Theorem, which applies Cerny’s conjecture to p-state automata consisting of a cycle and a nonpermutation, where p ≥ 3 is an odd prime. We ...

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK This special issue addresses the questions: What is the role and impact of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) on the process of internationalization in higher education? How is this internationalization process related to general models of change that are in motion? In particular, the articles in this special issue explore how the use of ICT influences the futu...

purpose: to describe a new noninvasive method to assure correct orientation of donor lenticules in descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (dsaek) surgery. methods: dsaek surgery was performed in three eyes with the diagnosis of pseudophakic bullous keratopathy (pbk). for the laboratory part of the study, two whole globes and two precut corneoscleral buttons were used. the donor l...

the purpose of present research is to compare abuse. mental health and religious orientation in runaway and normal girls .the sample group of the research involves 25 runaway girls aged 17-25 that are being protected in the shelters for runaway girls. and 25 normal girls with the same qualities that were selected from a park in the southern part of tehran • as comparison group. in order to asse...