one of the traditions relied on by shī‘a jurists in jurisprudence and especially in the discourse on judgment and testimonies is the tradition or the story of imam ‘alī’s (a.s.) lost coat of mail. the coat of mail being found in the market while it had been put on sale by someone, the imam’s going to the judge, filing a lawsuit against that person, and providing evident proofs in the court hear...

URING the last half of the twentieth century, pertussis vaccine has been at the center of controversies over the evaluation and marketing of vaccines for children. This controversy has transcended the simple confines of scientific research to redefine relationships among industry, government, law, and consumer advocacy. The dangerous side effects of whole-cell pertussis vaccine have been known ...

I report on special features of a course on statistics and probabilities at my university, where future teachers of mathematics in primary school are instructed on en-active representations of statistical situations and on their analogue modelling. I also report on empirical work with future mathematics teachers of primary school in Baden Württemberg who have been instructed to introduce simple...