mamdūh adwān (1941-2004) is a contemporary syrian poet who has vastly used traditions in his poems and has tried to express his ideas and stances toward arab world's current problems in a symbolic way and through traditional characters. mamdūh adwān is known as a poet committed to his country and people, and so, he considers expression of problems and provision of solutions as the highest ...

The Information Systems (IS) field has begun to focus on automatic behavior, which is not based on reason-based theory. In this study, we investigate habitual information technology (IT) use as an automatic behavior. We focus on the mood(s) that factor(s) into habitual behavior. People automatically regulate their mood positively when they recognize tense moods. We categorize moods into two gro...

the principles of political thought in the meccan verses of the quran being discussed in the previous issue, now a few practical examples from the holy quran are presented. the experiences of some prophets, from noah to moses, are studied in the light of quranic political thought. while studying the political interactions between people and prophets, we will realize that prophets such as noah, ...

Statements that " we have come to do biology in a new way " or " there is a new paradigm in biological research " are now commonplace. Nobody seems to be satisfied by a single good experiment that gives a precise answer to a well formulated question, which was the old way we did biology. On the contrary there is now a belief that a mass attack on parallel fronts can provide a database of all th...

Past research has revealed a mood-congruency bias wherein people evaluate other individuals more positively when they are experiencing good moods than when they are experiencing bad moods. At times, however, people may attempt to prevent their transient mood states from biasing their evaluations of other people. It was proposed that the capacity to attend openly to one s moods is an important p...

Several formalisms for concurrent computation have been proposed in recent years that incorporate means to express stochastic continuous-time dynamics and non-determinism. In this setting, some obscure phenomena are known to exist, related to the fact that schedulers may yield too pessimistic verification results, since current nondeterminism can surprisingly be resolved based on prophesying th...

A categorical syllogism is a rule of inference, consisting of two premisses and one conclusion. Every premiss and conclusion consists of dual relationships between the objects M, P, S. Logicians usually use only true syllogisms for deductive reasoning. After predicate logic had superseded syllogisms in the 19th century, interest on the syllogistic system vanished. We have analysed the syllogist...