as a branch of shi‘a jurists, akhbaris disagree theirmajority on the validity of some sources of inferring aswell as ways of understanding divine precepts, amongwhich being discrediting ordinary people’s (i.e., other thanthe infallible-innocent personalities’) understanding ofappearances of the qur’an. their opinion is based on twobases: hadiths they claim they are massively reported andare app...

Results Thirty-nine percentof patients repeated the DSH.Theywere atgreater relative riskof suicide thanthe singleepisode DSHgroup (2.24; 95% CI1.77^ 2.84).The relative riskof suicide in the repeated DSHgroup comparedwiththe single-episode DSHgroupwasgreater in females (3.5; 95% CI1.3^2.4) thanmales (1.8; 95% CI 2.3^5.3) andwas inversely related to age (up to 54 years).Suicide risk increased fur...

Results Treatmenteffectsweremodest butthe CBT condition gave significantly greater improvement in overall symptom severity thanthe SPTorTAUconditions combined (F (1,53)1⁄44.14; P1⁄40.05).Both the CBTand SPT conditions combined gave significantlygreater improvement in severityof delusions than did theTAU condition (F (1,53)1⁄44.83;P1⁄40.03). Clinically significant improvementswere achievedby 7/2...

The drugs thatpeople takefor non-medicalreasons do more than numb pain or enhance pleasure or induce perceptual distortions. They are a weaponagainstthe void. Inhisbook onopium,Jean Cocteauwrote that every human activity "takes place in an express train hurtling towards death." To take drugs, he proposed, is to get off that train. The potent illusionthat drugsprovide is calleduponwhen the more ...

RESEARCH LETTER Comparison of Regional and State Differences in MelanomaRates in the United States: 2003 vs 2013 SkincancerremainsthemostcommoncancerintheUnitedStates despite ongoing efforts to address this major public health problem.1Themortalityrateofmelanoma,withmorethan9000 deathsoccurringannually, continues to increase faster thanthe rateassociatedwithanyotherpreventablecancer.1-3Melanoma...

This paper considers estimation of success probabilities of categorical binary data subject to mis-classiication errors from the Bayesian point of view. It has been shown by Bross (1954) that sample proportions are in general biased estimates. This bias is a function of the amount of misclassiication and can be substantial. Tenenbein (1970) proposed to eliminate the bias by subjecting a portion...

one of most frequently stated phrases of sahifat al-sajjadiyya is related to repentance and asking for god’s pardon for the sins that are not only incompatible with the infallibility of imam al-sajjad (a.s.) but are inconsistent with ordinary human beings as well. this article intends to bring up and study some of the solutions for the above-mentioned enigma. on this basis, in explanation of th...