wittgenstein is one of the most prominent philosophers in the twentieth century; his views in both periods of his thinking have influenced many issues, including religion. his view on religion is expressed in his tractatus logico-philosophicus. in terms of the picture theory of meaning and the distinction between the meaningless and meaningful propositions, he has made an attempt to show that t...

This paper examines the information content of insider silence, periods no trading. We hypothesize that, to avoid litigation risk, rational insiders do not sell own-company shares when they anticipate bad news; neither would buy, given unfavorable prospects. Thus, keep silent. By contrast, significant news. Future stock returns are significantly lower following silence than net selling, especia...

A fail-silent node is a self-checking node that either functions correctly or stops functioning after an internal failure is detected. Such a node can be constructed from a number of conventional processors. In a software-implemented fail-silent node, the non-faulty processors of the node need to execute message order and comparison protocols to 'keep in step' and check each other respectively....

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE There have been few studies of the incidence of silent cerebral infarction detected by magnetic resonance imaging in patients with presenile or senile major depression. METHODS We examined silent cerebral infarction in patients with presenile and senile major depression who were diagnosed at Hiroshima Prefectural Hospital. The diagnostic criteria of the American Psychia...

OBJECTIVES To measure the prevalence of silent strokes in the Iraqi Kurdish population, and to identify silent stroke risk factors. METHODS This cross-sectional study was carried out in Rizgary Teaching Hospital, Erbil, Iraq from January to June 2009. A sample of 200 patients attending the outpatient clinic was taken. The results of CT and MRI were analyzed, and the proportion of silent infar...

police in cases such as obvious or important offences, is authorized to intervene, arrest, detain and investigate citizens. the current rules and regulations of our country have a passive role in showing respect to dos and don’ts and exhibiting decorous and lawful behavior towards the arrested people. the commitment treat people appropriately, the right to have a lawyer, keep silent, consult a ...