The Closing of the Door of Ijtihad and the Application of the Law by Frank E. Vogel

“…But first let me make some general points to support the general suggestion I have just made. In western studies of fiqh, we have often omitted, justifiably or not, any consideration of the law's application. …”
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Trading mental and physical health in vestibular schwannoma treatment decision by Kathrin Machetanz, Larissa Lee, Sophie S. Wang, Marcos Tatagiba, Georgios Naros

“…In contrast, MH (i.e., PANQOL-anxiety) and general health (i.e., PANQOL-GH) improved with surgery and correlated with the extent-of-resection.ConclusionPhysical and mental health is significantly influenced by VS surgery. …”
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Beyond generalized anxiety: the association of anxiety sensitivity with disordered eating by Maria Bazo Perez, Timothy B. Hayes, Leslie D. Frazier

“…Participants completed an online survey with established measures of AS (i.e., Anxiety Sensitivity Index-3; ASI-3), general anxiety (i.e., Beck Anxiety Inventory; BAI), and eating behaviors (i.e., Eating Attitudes Test-26; EAT-26). …”
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Clarifying the relationship between mental illness and recidivism using machine learning: A retrospective study. by Talia R Cohen, Gaylen E Fronk, Kent A Kiehl, John J Curtin, Michael Koenigs

“…This retrospective study aimed to use rigorous machine learning methods to understand the unique predictive utility of mental illness for recidivism in a general population (i.e.; not only those with mental illness) prison sample in the United States.…”
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Compacted Anthropogenic Materials as Backfill for Buried Pipes by Andrzej Głuchowski, Raimondas Šadzevičius, Rytis Skominas, Wojciech Sas

“…The results of the tests revealed that AM behaves differently from natural aggregates (NA). In general, the <i>E_ode</i> value for AM is lower than for NA with the same gradation. …”
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COVID-19 Vaccines for Adults and Children with Autoimmune Gut or Liver Disease by Monika Peshevska-Sekulovska, Plamena Bakalova, Violeta Snegarova, Snezhina Lazova, Tsvetelina Velikova

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Eco-Design of Energy Production Systems: The Problem of Renewable Energy Capacity Recycling by Svetlana Ratner, Konstantin Gomonov, Svetlana Revinova, Inna Lazanyuk

“…The study draws several general conclusions. (i) The contribution of further improvements in PV’s recycling technologies to environmental impacts throughout the entire life cycle is insignificant. …”
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Comparative Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Pig Farming Using Tier Inventories by Konstantina Akamati, George P. Laliotis, Iosif Bizelis

“…Therefore, specific animal categories could be targeted (i.e., fattening gilts) in a more specialized manner apart from general strategies (i.e., animal improvement).…”
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Organisational politics - a prerequisite perspective for general management by I. C. MacMillan

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Examination of Amorphous Calcium Carbonate on the Inflammatory and Muscle Damage Response in Experienced Resistance Trained Individuals by Jay R. Hoffman, Tavor Ben-Zeev, Amit Zamir, Chagai Levi, Ishay Ostfeld

“…No significant interaction was noted for general soreness (<i>p</i> = 0.452), but a trend toward an interaction was observed in upper body soreness (<i>p</i> = 0.089). …”
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On the uniqueness of ΛCDM-like evolution for homogeneous and isotropic cosmology in General Relativity by Saikat Chakraborty, Daniele Gregoris, B. Mishra

“…We address the question of the uniqueness of spatially flat ΛCDM-like evolution for FLRW cosmologies in General Relativity, i.e. whether any model other than the spatially flat ΛCDM can give rise to the same type of scale factor evolution. …”
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Psychometric Validation of the Portuguese Obsession with COVID-19 Scale (PT-OCS) by Mónica Taveira Pires, Susana Mourão, José Santos

“…The confirmatory factor analysis results indicate that the PT-OCS includes a set of excellent psychometric properties concerning both the general sample (<i>χ</i>²₍₁₎ = 0.446, <i>p</i> = 0.504; CFI = 1.0; GFI = 1.0; RMSEA = 0.0; standardised RMR = 0.003) and the parent group (<i>χ</i>²₍₂₎ = 1.816, <i>p</i> = 0.403; CFI = 1.0; GFI = 0.99; RMSEA = 0.0; standardised RMR = 0.016; Bollen–Stine bootstrap <i>p</i> = 0.65). …”
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Сase study in Russia: the views of parents on schoolchildren’s cyber addiction in the course of online learning by Suad Abdalkareem Alwaely, Rosalia Minnullina, Elena Fedorova, Yuliya Lazareva

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Development and justification of parameters of a microwave convective hop dryer by Novikova G.V., Mikhailova O.V., Prosviryakova M.V., Storchevoy V.F., Goryacheva N.G., Fedorischev A.A.

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Comparing equivalent gravities: common features and differences by Salvatore Capozziello, Vittorio De Falco, Carmen Ferrara

“…In particular, we point out how foundation principles of General Relativity (i.e. the Equivalence Principle and the General Covariance) can be seen from the teleparallel point of view. …”
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Is There an Association between Herpetic Infections and Giant Cell Arteritis? A Population-Based Study by Dong-ho Lee, Alfonso Iovieno, Claire A. Sheldon

“…The prevalence of GCA in subjects with HZ (0.340%) was significantly higher than the prevalence of GCA (0.143%) in the general population (<i>p</i> < 0.00001). The prevalence of GCA in HSV subjects (0.190%) was also significantly higher (<i>p</i> < 0.00001) than the population prevalence but lower than (<i>p</i> < 0.00001) the GCA with HZ prevalence. …”
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8.01 Physics I, Fall 2003 by Kowalski, Stanley

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Dark energy and the inhomogeneous universe by Bull, P

“…The acceleration is often taken to be caused by the presence of an exotic fluid called Dark Energy, or else a non-zero 'cosmological constant' term in the field equations of General Relativity. I consider whether this result could instead be an artefact caused by using an incorrect model to interpret observations. …”

Dynamics of temporal anticipation in perception and action by Heideman, S

“…In Chapter 5, the General discussion, I place these results in their wider context and discuss limitations and future directions.…”

The construction of professional identities in medical writing and fiction, c. 1830s-1910s by Moulds, ASE

“…I begin by looking at the struggling young medical man, before examining metropolitan practitioners (from elite consultants to slum doctors), and the hard-working country general practitioner. I then consider how gender and professional identities intersected in the figure of the medical woman. …”