the imposed war which changed into the holy defense through shiite discourse, was one of the most important tests of the revolution after the islamic revolution victory. in fact, the imposed war caused the shiite discourse as the dominant discourse in the islamic republic of iran to show its potential capacities once again by the clergy foundation and imam khomeini, in particular. changing into...

Two-sample tests for multivariate and especially for non-Euclidean data are not fully explored. This paper presents a novel test based on a similarity graph constructed on the pooled observations from the two samples. It can be applied to multivariate data and non-Euclidean data as long as a dissimilarity measure on the sample space can be defined, which can usually be provided by domain expert...

BACKGROUND For many college students, Friday class schedules may contribute to weekend-like drinking behaviors beginning on Thursday. This study characterizes college students' daily alcohol consumption patterns and the relation between Thursday drinking and Friday classes overall and for specific vulnerable groups. METHODS A sample of 3,341 volunteer participants was drawn from 3,713 eligibl...