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The human being is the most wonderful creation of God and the highest sign of his infinite power. Humanity is capable of achieving all divine perfections. God created them to reach the position of God’s closeness and God’s successor on Earth, and this path will not be realised except by the correct education. A human is a divine being who has settled in this earthly world, and correct education is the only way to achieve that sacred truth. Divine prophets have come to prepare the Earth for this great transformation in human existence and guide them to the light of divine teachings. There is no doubt that if human beings are not educated according to divine standards, they will remain at the level of animality. The Holy Qur’an, as the most precious Islamic divine book, presents the best way of education based on the knowledge of the truth of humanity and their needs. In addition, it is appropriate to discuss the role of behavioural gentleness in the education of people, and in this regard, the Qur’anic verses have been reviewed carefully. Therefore, the aim of this manuscript is to study the Islamic teachings in education with an emphasis on behavioural gentleness.ContributionIf curriculum planners and educators in general pay attention to Qur’anic teachings in education and base their curriculum and educational programs on Qur’anic teachings and according to characteristics and abilities and appropriateness of methods, and if the contents are paid attention to and educational programs are produced based on the will and authority of the educators, we will definitely witness progress and development in educational systems on the one hand and development and progress in all levels of life.

Background Medical Adhesive Related Skin Injuries can arise from topically applied medical devices, especially in those with fragile skin, including the elderly and premature infants. The purpose of this study was to compare gentleness and reapplication of two pulse oximetry sensors (OxySoftN and MaxN, Medtronic, Boulder, CO). Materials and methods Eighteen healthy subjects aged 65 years and older were enrolled in the gentleness trial, and 20 healthy subjects (18–69 years) were enrolled in the reapplication trial. For the gentleness trial, trans‐epidermal water loss (TEWL) measurements were made at five sites on each forearm at three time points (baseline [T0], 4‐h postinitial wear [T1], 4‐h postsecond wear [T2]). Total amount of protein adhered to each device was also determined. For the reapplication trial, a series of 180° peel tests were performed to observe the forces required to detach the sensor from the skin. Results TEWL rates in the tail region were significantly greater with MaxN compared to OxySoftN at T1 (p < 0.05). Both were significantly greater than control (p < 0.05). Further, protein analysis revealed that the amount of protein removed was significantly less with OxySoftN compared to MaxN (p < < 0.0001). Differences in loss of adhesion of the tail region between the two sensors were demonstrated, with OxySoftN depreciating at a much slower rate compared with MaxN. Conclusion The OxySoftN sensor appears to be gentle, even on fragile skin, based on reduced strain on the skin during removal. Further, it demonstrated the ability to withstand several reapplications without functional loss in adhesion.

This paper focuses on the topic of \"soft skills\" as an intrinsic part of successful leadership. The first part of the paper presents a literature review about the shift in perspective in recent years on what matters in leadership, and the significant changes this prompted in some areas of education and corporate recruitment. In the second part, the findings of a year round study conducted among Los Angeles based workforce members in an MBA program are presented. By utilizing a multi-method approach, consisting of a survey model with three open ended, interview style questions, and data analysis in phenomenological trend, a number of interesting findings emerged, supporting the literature reviewed, that soft leadership skills, such as self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills, are steadily on the rise, and that greater attention should be apportioned to strengthen these skills in future leaders.

Animal treatment has a comprehensive connotation and far-reaching implications in Islamic civilization. The rationes leges for this broader meaning in human-animal relations are the principles laid out in the two foundational sources of Islam, i.e., the Qurʾān and the Sunnah of the Prophet Muḥammad. While dealing with the subject of animals, different disciplines carried the framework drawn in these two sources to a more abstract level,thereby becoming the very basis for practices in societies’ daily life. One of these disciplines, Islamic jurisprudence deals with how people are to preserve the God-given rights of animals while extracting benefit from in different chapters. In this article, I will first provide a brief introduction to animal welfare and protection in Islamic civilization. I will then focus on how scholars have interpreted the Qurʾānic concept of community (ummah, plural:umam) in exegetical literature. After that, I will show how the Prophet Muḥammad’s approach of gentleness (rifq) and excellence (iḥsān) manifested in his treatment of animals through several examples from the ḥadīth literature.Finally, I will attempt to demonstrate how Islamic jurisprudence embodies this theoretical framework through the concept of harm. In conclusion, I will show that there are important concepts and examples in Islamic thought that shed light on scholarship in the field of animal studies.

Rousseau seems to argue, on one hand, that moderns are luxurious, lazy, weak, and soft, in opposition to primitive hardiness, vigor, ferocity, and rustic virtue. On the other hand, he depicts modern life as cruel, frenzied, competitive, and harsh, in opposition to primitive gentleness, idleness, abundance, and spontaneity. Is Rousseau, then, simply an imaginative ideologue, forwarding wildly opposed and oscillating characterizations of these eras, merely to be contrarian? This article attempts to demonstrate a degree of coherence in his analyses, by focusing on the various sociopolitical contexts he discusses, and the various moral characterizations and norms which apply to each of these contexts. Building upon a half-century of interpretations, it offers an innovative logical typology of Rousseau's social thought—in terms of social complexity, environmental resources, and normative foundation—which may explain many of his central paradoxes.

In his account of the 27-year Peloponnesian War, Thucydides makes virtue the theme of his presentation of the most outstanding Spartan, Brasidas. That presentation can guide us to an understanding of moral virtue in all its richness and complexity. We learn from a careful analysis of Brasidas’ deeds and speeches, and of Thucydides’ assessment of him, that Brasidas’ virtue, remarkable as it is, is problematic. Thucydides’ account of it may move us, in fact, to abandon our own attachment to this kind of virtue, as we find ourselves in need of a more consistent kind of virtue, one that becomes visible above all in the first speech of the Syracusan Hermocrates. The conversion to this kind of virtue constitutes Thucydides’ grounding of the life guided by reason.

This paper examines situations in which brand extensions are more or less likely to dilute beliefs associated with the family brand name. The results of an experimental investigation indicate that dilution effects do occur when brand extension attributes are inconsistent with the family brand beliefs. However, they are less likely to emerge when consumers perceive the brand extension as atypical of the family brand, and typicality of the brand extension is salient at the time beliefs are assessed. These findings held regardless of brand extension category, with the extension category being either the same or different from those product categories already occupied by the family brand, but differing by the type of family brand belief involved. Results are discussed in terms of the conditions under which two alternative theoretical perspectives (\"bookkeeping\" versus \"typicality-based\" models) are supported.

This article extends the scope of investigations into the potential risks of brand and line extension strategies. Here, the authors examine whether extensions can dilute beliefs associated with a strategically important and highly visible product-the flagship product. The results of three experimental investigations indicate that beliefs about flagship products are less vulnerable to dilution than beliefs about the parent brand name in general. The findings suggest that assessments of the impact of brand leveraging strategies should include analysis of the effects on individual products as well as on the family brand name.

Like Halberstam, James Eli Adams considers gender largely in terms of performance, emphasizing that masculinity always requires an audience. 4 John Tosh shows that the Victorian middle-class home was not an exclusively or even primarily feminine place, that domesticity was an important part of manhood even though Victorians feared that spending too long at home could feminize men.5 Herbert Sussman's Victorian Masculinities is especially foundational for the way it shows how middle-class Victorians understood masculinity, or manliness (a term more popular at the time), not as an essential quality possessed by all men, but rather as a set of often-conflicting qualities that were difficult to achieve and even harder to maintain and balance.6 My examination of Gareth and Lynette reveals how, according to this definition, Gareth's masculinity is strangely un-Victorian, a seemingly inborn quality that only needs an opportunity to be expressed; in contrast, Lynette's development of manly virtues is tortuously slow, and thus would have resonated much more strongly with contemporary understandings of manliness.

To separate gentle from defensive bee types, a rating scale is the most reliable, economical, and practical evaluation system. In initiating a breeding programme for the indigenous Syrian honeybee Apis mellifera syriaca, a typical representative of the endangered subspecies of the Middle East, multiple measurements were used to generally monitor this behavior and verify whether the international Apimondia recommendations are suitable for such subspecies. A total of 72 beekeepers and three breeding centers provided performancetesting results from 969 colonies distributed throughout 75 apiaries in Syria. Each colony was tested, on average, 4.73 times (4584 records total). The defensive behavior of A. m. syriaca was found to be very aggressive (1.48 scored by a system ranging from 1 (aggressive) to 4 (gentle)). The low repeatability (0.19) of defensive behavior estimated using restricted maximal likelihood analysis and the low and skewed variation of the trait indicate that other scoring systems are expected to be more efficient for selective breeding towards gentle behavior.