essay on jurisprudence and possible effects of the condition of the dowry *akram sayad **maryam aqai bejestani abstract dowry or mahr one of the financial effects of marriage that couples are required to pay it. high dowry payments and the subsequent imprisonment of many problems facing society and the families of the couple. one of the ways to avoid the dowries of the organization for registra...

I will address a challenge to mentalistic theories of norms, such as that developed by Cristiano Castelfranchi and Rosaria Conte, namely, the existence of large normative systems, which successfully direct people’s thoughts and actions without being, in their entirety, mental contents of individual agents. I will argue that the cognitive attitudes and operations involved in compliance with norm...

abstract background and purposes: gastrointestinal cancers including stomach adenocarcinoma are very prevalent and one the main causes of death due to cancer. mazandaran has a high mortality rate of stomach adenocarcinoma. this study was proposed for estimation of survival time in patients with stomach adenocarcinoma. materials and methods: the study was historical cohort. the samples were the ...

This paper tests Wagner’s law of increasing state activity using panels of Chinese provinces. The paper’s main methodological contribution is in that we employ for the first time in the literature on Wagner’s law a panel unit root, panel cointegration and Granger Causality testing approach. Overall, we find mixed evidence in support of Wagner’s law for China’s central and western provinces, but...

Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, King's College London, London, UK Senior Lecturer, Centre of Medical Law and Ethics, Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London, London, UK Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, Mental Health, Ethics and Law research group, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College...

this paper reviews the relationship between the rule of law, good governance, and sustainable development as those terms are used by the relevant development organizations; describes the efforts made by various organizations to promote the rule of law and good governance; and addresses the need to strengthen compliance and enforcement for sustainable development. a recent movement, which has re...

The enforcement of decisions of the International Court of Justice may involve problems that touch upon some of the most delicate areas of both public international law, and the law of the United Nations, at a time when these two systems of law can hardly be considered as totally separate from each other. In the body of general law and practice concerning enforcement of international rules the ...

Sari C. Saunders*, Jiquan Chen, Thomas D. Drummer, Eric J. Gustafson, Kimberley D. Brosofske School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931, USA Department of Earth, Ecological, and Environmental Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606, USA Department of Mathematical Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 4...