theatrical works of art related to iraq & iran war are refered to as the genre of “the sacred defense theatre”. although various organizations were established to support these works but this genre have not been produced continuously. indeed, the sacred defense theatre is a kind of war theatre that not only deals with themes, situations, events and characters of war but also reflects moral and ...

This paper addresses the model-based tuning of Proportional-Integral (PI) controllers focusing on the robustness/performance and servo/regulation trade-offs. First, a tuning rule is derived analytically by solving a simple H∞ weighted sensitivity problem, where the weight is chosen so that two design parameters permit to adjust the considered conflicting objectives. This way, the resulting tuni...

Sacred natural sites have played important social and cultural roles in many cultures around the world for centuries. More recently, scientists have shown that sacred sites act as de facto protected areas. However , the potential for sacred sites to be integrated into conservation strategies depends on the motivations of people to protect them. The objective of this study is to understand peopl...

Seminal work in finance and economics has studied theoretical models of ethical behavior. We provide experimental evidence for the role of a universal “sacred value,” namely, truth. We study this value in the context of earnings management, which is an important business setting where the conflict between personal gains and behavior consistent with the value of truth is particularly salient. We...

Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. For more information on Open Research Online's data policy on reuse of materials please consult the policies page. BACKGROUND: New values and practices associated with medical professionalism have created an increased interest in the concept. In the United Kingdom, it i...

We review studies of natural selection in wild populations in which selection has acted in opposite directions at different stages of the life history. For example, the phenotype with highest probability of survival may have the lowest reproductive success. We discuss two important implications of these findings. First, measurements of opposing selection confirm that evolution of traits is gove...