one of the requirements mentioned in islamic jurisprudence for the subject-matter of the contract is its being free from other’s rights, and in view of this requirement, sale of such things as pledge and vaqf (property that is religious endowment) is forbidden. there is disagreement whether this requirement is an independent term or is deduced from preclusion of such sales. iranian civil code d...

Based on the distinction between living body and lived body, we describe the disease-subject as representing the impact of disease on the existential life-project of the subject. Traditionally, an individual's subjectivity experiences disorders of the body and describes ensuing pain, discomfort and unpleasantness. The idea of a disease-subject goes further, representing the lived body suffering...

Subject island effects are variable and unstable. Previous accounts, relying on well-defined structural properties of subjects, fail to capture this variability. We argue that subjects are islands only when they satisfy the Subject Criterion, which implies that at the interface they are interpreted outside the predicative nucleus of the clause, in a categorical structure (à la Ladusaw 1994); on...

Subject island effects are variable and unstable. Previous accounts, relying on well-defined structural properties of subjects, fail to capture this variability. We argue that subjects are islands only when they satisfy the Subject Criterion, which implies that at the interface they are interpreted outside the predicative nucleus of the clause, in a categorical structure (à la Ladusaw 1994); on...

Recently, the European Federation of Clinical Chemistry Laboratory Medicine (1), within the frame of its Science Committee, has created a working group (WG) on biological variation. In its website (2), this WG describes its structure and its purpose (“Terms for reference”). Some members of this WG and other authors published a very interesting systematic review of data on biological variation f...