A female may not serve as imam for males. This is because he…

A female may not serve as imam for males. This is because her menstrual period might come and also because of the subordinate position of women, as dictated by the Qur’an. Finally, it is regarded as unseemly for a woman to be seen from behind by men, because the posterior portion of the body is raised during the prostration when the forehead touches the floor.

Joseph is a 48 year old male with end-stage liver disease wh…

Joseph is a 48 year old male with end-stage liver disease who is being evaluated for liver transplantation at which time he will be immunosuppressed.  He has received no vaccines in the past 15 years.  He is a police officer so he has received the hepatitis B vaccine series.  Which of the following lists of vaccines are recommended in anticipation of his transplant?

Most pilgrims agree that the most important moment of the Ha…

Most pilgrims agree that the most important moment of the Hajj is the day of reckoning on the Plain of Arafat, where Muhammad gave his Farewell Sermon shortly before his death. Here, in preparation for Judgment Day, believers stand before God, pray, repent for their sins, and ask for forgiveness.

Let’s consider a small randomized clinical trial designed to…

Let’s consider a small randomized clinical trial designed to compare the response of a continuous variable between patients randomized to one of two treatments, A or B, using a permuted block design with a block size of 2. That is, for each block of two patients, one receives treatment A and the other receives treatment B, with the order chosen at random. Why do most clinical trials avoid using permuted block randomization with such small block sizes?