belief in matter of matters or the prime matter is one of the earliest human beliefs in the field of philosophical thinking. from among the muslim philosophers, the peripatetics have confirmed it and come up with certain arguments; however, some others have not accepted it. in this article, it is tried to critically review the arguments on proving the prime matter and the objections that muslim...

One of the book's strengths is to discuss less-cited examples: the Shah of Persia, for instance, whose plans to modernize his country foundered with his leukaemia, concealed from all except the French secret service (was this why France supported the Ayatollah Khomeini?); or Ferdinand Marcos, whose systemic lupus erythematosus and renal failure led to a repressive regime largely dominated by hi...

BACKGROUND The status of hepatitis A virus (HAV) among health care workers has not been studied yet in Iran. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to evaluate the HAV seropositivity among the healthcare personnel in Ayatollah Rohani Hospital, Babol, Iran, according to age, number of working years, and other demographic data. PATIENTS AND METHODS This cross sectional study was performed on all nurses,...

Ayatollah Yusef Sanei was a prominent contemporary Shia scholar whose particular methodological approach led him to issue some of the most progressive fatwas on subject women’s rights. However, ideas he expressed in last decades his life have scarcely been addressed English language scholarship. This article explores Sanei’s broader jurisprudential and how applied it analyzing often challenging...

K. Fathi1∗, S.F. Bagheri2, M. Alizadeh3 ∗, M. Alizadeh4 Department of Statistics, North Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran 1 Department of Statistics, College of Basic Sciences, Yadegar-e-Imam Khomeini (RAH) Shahr-e-Rey Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran2 Branch of Mazandaran, Statistical Center of Iran3 Department of Mathematical since, University of Mazandaran, Mazandara...

Case Presentation Dr. reza taslimi (internist):A 34-year-old HIV positive-man was admitted to the hospital due to fever and abdominal pain. Constant and generalized abdominal pain started 3 months prior to admission (pTA) in upper quadrants of abdomen followed by mild odynophagia, early satiety and more than 20 kg weight loss since then. Intermittent fever begun 7 days pTA and cough, sputum and...

Saeed Shokri1*, Masoud Hemadi2 and Robert John Aitken3 1Anatomy Department, School of Medicine, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, 2Fertility and Infertility Research Center, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, 3ARC Centre of Excellence in Biotechnology and Development, Discipline of Biological Sciences, University of...

Casimir limit Christophe Blanc, Ali Rajabpour, Sebastian Volz, Thierry Fournier, and Olivier Bourgeois Institut N EEL, CNRS-UJF, 25 avenue des Martyrs, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin 34149-16818, Iran Laboratoire d’Energ etique Mol eculaire et Macroscopique, Ecole Centrale Paris, Grande Voie des Vignes, Chatena...