there were some great scientists like austin and searle in the growth stage of pragmatics, especially searle who has offered an executive procedure was completed by some discourse analysis elements, and it has completed the speech acts theory of austin. this survey considers the sermon of jihad in nahj ul-baläghah book by using its speech acts. by considering five speech acts, their direct and...

human free acts have always been one of most difficult but important issues in philosophical debates. in this paper, i will try to provide an interpretation of these acts and argue for human free will and freedom. to this end, i will first, disucss the distinction of necessary acts from free acts, and then will argue for the free will, and its relation to free acts and freedom. finally, some co...

Background: Longevity of basic medical sciences is a major concern of medical educators and physicians. It has been shown that different learning styles can affect the half-life of the material. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of partially tests during renal physiology course on "the student’s retention of renal physiology knowledge" and "knowledge loss" in pharmacy and medical students...

Thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) acts in brain stem nuclei to induce vagally mediated stimulation of gastric secretion. The effects of intracisternal injection of the TRH analog RX-77368 on plasma gastrin levels and corpus histidine decarboxylase (HDC) activity were studied in 48-h fasted conscious rats. RX-77368 (25-100 ng) increased plasma gastrin levels by threefold at 30 min, which remai...

In W v M, family members made an application to the Court of Protection for withdrawal of artificial nutrition and hydration from a minimally conscious patient. Subsequent scholarly discussion has centred around the ethical adequacy of the judge's decision not to authorise withdrawal. This article brings a different perspective by drawing on interviews with 51 individuals with a relative who is...

OBJECTIVE Our purpose was to provide a comprehensive understanding of how women informal caregivers of patients in vegetative state (VS) or minimally conscious state (MCS) describe, represent, and experience changes that occurred in their life after the acute event of their family member. METHODS A qualitative study was conducted and fifteen women informal caregivers, mothers, or spouses of p...

OBJECTIVE To describes socio-demographic and clinical features of adults and children in vegetative state (VS) and minimally conscious state (MCS). DESIGN Observational cross-sectional study. METHODS Demographic, aetiological and clinical data were collected, together with patients' management procedures. Mann-Whitney U-test was used for continuous variables and chi-squared test for categor...

‎‎The investigation of equational compactness was initiated by‎ ‎Banaschewski and Nelson‎. ‎They proved that pure injectivity is‎ ‎equivalent to equational compactness‎. ‎Here we define the so‎ ‎called sequentially compact acts over semigroups and study‎ ‎some of their categorical and homological properties‎. ‎Some‎ ‎Baer conditions for injectivity of S-acts are also presented‎.

A learning test procedure based on operant principles may be useful in the diagnosis (and eventually rehabilitation) of post-coma persons with minimal responsiveness. This study was aimed at extending the evaluation of such a procedure with seven participants who presented with very limited behavior and apparently severe disorders of consciousness. The procedure was evaluated through an ABACB d...