professor abolghasem gorji was an outstanding professor and also an eminent jurist of contemporary iran whose valuable works were chiefly on jurisprudence and law and then on the quranic sciences – as his edition of quranic commentary jawami‘ al-jami‘ as well as annotations found in the end of a treatise entitled “criteria of veraciousness of commentaries” can clearly prove. presenting a biogra...

Abstract Matsuda et al. (2022) show that late bloomers also exist in self-report data. They use a “dynamic” definition of bloomer offending pattern as they have concerns with definitions based on arbitrary age cutoff points. But the approach does not make groups less than hard definitions. In this commentary, I argue has important advantages and demonstrates an alternative using while exploring...

this article is a commentary of an overview on “medical tourism” submitted by lunt and marrion, which describes a framework for the study of the issues related to medical tourism. the commentary attempts to differentiate between the current interest in medical tourism and the time-honored and well-established treatment abroad from countries with underdeveloped health systems. the commentary als...

The Holy Quran was descended from Almighty Allah to the Holy Prophet (AS) about the last 14 centuries and there has been a time interval between descent of the Quran and its existing readers and commentators. This Question is posed whether this time interval between descent of the Quran and commentator will effect on verses understanding and their commentary or not? As one of commentary princip...

‘Hojjat-al-Tafasir’ commentary is a ten volume commentary among Shiite contemporary commentaries. It has been written by an Iranian Persian scientist, Sayyed Abdol Hojjat Balaghi. Seven volumes assigns to commentary and the first two volumes is about general setting of descent of the Quran and its elements and tenth volume also belongs to complementary explanations. Sayyed Abdol Hoj...

Abū Isḥāq Tha‘labī Nayshābūrī is an outstanding Iranian exegete of the fourth and fifth centuries LH. Tha‘labī has been so skillful in various Islamic sciences such as Arabic linguistics (including morphology, syntax (grammatical inflection), vocabulary, and rhetoric), Ḥadīth, exegesis, and qur’ānic sciences that numerous students from many near and far places attended his classes. Tha‘labī’s c...

I discuss the recommendations and cautions in Steinley and Brusco's (2011) article on the use of finite models to cluster a data set. In their article, much use is made of comparison with the K-means procedure. As noted by researchers for over 30 years, the K-means procedure can be viewed as a special case of finite mixture modeling in which the components are in equal (fixed) proportions and a...

Commentary The meta-analysis by Vollenweider and colleagues finds that antibiotics reduce treatment failure in outpatients and inpatients alike, yet emphasizes a sensitivity analysis limited to currently used antibiotics that yielded similar relative risks but lacked power to demonstrate statistical significance. This sensitivity analysis seems somewhat arbitrary if antibiotic efficacy in COPD ...