One of the most important issues in contract law is the interpretation of contracts. The parties to the contract may have disagreements in the meaning of the terms and phrases of the contract. The disagreement in the contact faces an obstacle in the fulfilment of contractual obligations and the courts must interpret the contract in order to the settlement of disputes and fulfilment of contractual obligations. The most important purpose of interpretation is exploring the common intent of the parties. Textualists and contextualists both claim to discover the intent of the parties. Textualists take consider intention as the real and true intention of the parties and search for it in the context of the contract. In contrast, contextualists consider subjective intention to be the real and genuine will of the parties to the contract and consider the text of the contract as an incomplete resource regardless of the context in which the contract is formed. Exploring the real intention under the principle of freedom and principle of voluntarism is assumed as one of the most important values of legal systems in the field of contract law in this article. Therefore, the main criterion for evaluating each of these approaches is the ability to achieve the actual intention. The contextualism approach has more ability and accuracy in exploring the real intention of the parties by using extensive evidence. Although the textualism approach is consistent with the real intention of the parties in some cases, it is not very successful in exploring the real intent of the parties due to the limitation of the cited sources. It can be said in this research by relying on descriptive-analytical method and by evaluating the rules of each of these approaches that systems that consider contract as merely a tool to realize economic values in transactions are more inclined to textualism approach, in contrast, in systems in which the contract itself has intrinsic value and the realization of the parties’ intentions has relevance regardless of economic values are more likely to adopt a contextualism approach. Accordingly, in the author’s opinion, ending the unfinished textualism and contextualism struggle depends on examining the value priorities of a legal system in the field of contract law which has been neglected in the research of the last two decades.

A B S T R A C T Green city is one of the approaches to sustainable development. “green city” is an environmentally friendly city compatible with the concept of sustainable development and can be used for the welfare and security of its inhabitants. Based on the concept of a “green city,” urban managers try to have the least destructive effect on the ecosystems upon which cities rely. Green city is one of the sustainable development approaches that reduce the environmental footprint of cities. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the situation of Mashhad metropolis in terms of the Objective characteristics of the green city. In this study, 14 indicators of electricity consumption per capita, green space per capita, population density, water availability, sewage availability, superior public transportation network, urban mass transportation, traffic reduction, annual production waste per capita, carbon monoxide, concentration nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide concentration, particulate matter concentration, and air quality were exerted. To determine the importance of research indicators, the Shannon entropy method, and the status of Mashhad city areas in terms of green city indicators, the VIKOR multi-criteria decision-making method has been applied. The results showed that most areas of Mashhad are average and below average in terms of green city characteristics, and only District 9 is in very good condition (0.636). Also, based on the results of this part of the research, District 5, with the value of VIKOR index of 0.969, is in the last rank in terms of Objective characteristics of the green city Extended Abstract Introduction Green city is one of the approaches to sustainable development. A “Green city” is an environmentally friendly city compatible with the concept of sustainable development and can be used for the welfare and security of its inhabitants. Based on the concept of a “green city,” urban managers try to have the least destructive effect on the ecosystems upon which cities rely. Green cities constantly try to manage their environmental effects by reducing waste, increasing recycling, reducing air pollution, increasing population density, developing open urban spaces, and encouraging the development of sustainable local businesses. Green cities were first used to evaluate 30 European cities by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) in 2009 with the financial support of Siemens and the aim of reducing the environmental effects of human activities in cities. In that study, eight indices of carbon dioxide, energy, construction, transportation, water, recycling and land use, air quality, and environmental governance were used. Later, the Economist Intelligence Unit, with the financial support of Siemens, evaluated the status of the green city index in 17 Latin American cities, 15 African cities, 22 major Asian cities, and 27 cities in United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In recent years, even some Western Islamic scholars have, in various publications, shown that Islam is an ecological religion. In Iran, the issue of protecting the environment has not received much attention regardless of its rich cultural and religious background and its confirmation in Article 50 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Mashhad is the second metropolis of Iran, located in North-East of Iran, and is one of the counties of Khorasan Razavi Province. According to the 2016 Iranian Population and Housing Census, its population was 3057679 people (The Vice-Presidency of Planning and Development of Mashhad Municipality). In Mashhad, due to several reasons including the presence of Imam Reza Shrine (PBUH) and arrival of millions of pilgrims per year, population growth, increased garbage production (production of 896534 tons of garbage in 2016 (The Vice-Presidency of Planning and Development of Mashhad Municipality), air pollution (increased number of unhealthy days from 46 days per year in 2015 to 88 days in 2016 for sensitive groups and 4 days of unhealthy air for all groups in 2016 (Center for Monitoring Environmental Pollutants of Mashhad Municipality) the 2025 vision of the city has paid attention to the environment in the form of five general Objectives; however, just like the national level, no specific pattern for environmentally-compatible urban development, such as green city, is determined. Analysis of the green city index in Mashhad metropolis can considerably contribute to urban managers and planners in addition to providing a pattern for evaluating the present situation in other cities of Iran and improving the quality of life regardless of the current status of the urban environment in Iranian cities; we can preserve these environments as parts of the natural environment for future generations.   Methodology In terms of its goal, the present study is an applied one; in the study, drawing upon other studies and library sources and considering the conditions of Iran and the metropolis of Mashhad in terms of green city, 14 quantitative indices were exerted. To this end, the required data for the quantitative indices was gathered by library research from the relevant institutions. Next, the weights of quantitative indices were determined using Shannon's entropy. Then, using the VIKOR method of multi-criteria decision-making, the status of various districts of the metropolis of Mashhad in terms of quantitative indices of green city was determined. Finally, the map of the spatial distribution of quantitative indices was drawn using the ARC GIS software package.   Results and discussion In this study, to analyze the status of the metropolis of Mashhad in terms of green city features, 14 quantitative indices were used. Considering the value of the VIKOR index ranges from 0 to 1, various districts of Mashhad can be classified into five categories; very satisfactory, satisfactory, average, unsatisfactory, and very unsatisfactory in terms of quantitative indices of green city. The results of the current situation of Mashhad showed that in terms of Objective indicators of the green city, District 9 of Mashhad metropolis with a value of VIKOR index of 0.056 is in first place, and the seventh region with a value of VIKOR index of 0.433 is in second place. Also, based on the results of this part of the research, District 5, with the value of VIKOR index of 0.969, is in the last rank in terms of Objective characteristics of the green city.   Conclusion Similarly, the results of studies by Afshar (2011) and Shabani et al. (2017) on Tehran metropolis are indicative of the unsatisfactory situation of Tehran (the biggest metropolis of Iran) in terms of green city features. Comparing the results of the studies by Afshar (2011) and Shabani et al. (2017) with the present study on Mashhad (the second biggest metropolis of Iran) reveals the necessity for a comprehensive plan toward achieving green cities. It should be mentioned that, due to the specific conditions of Mashhad metropolis and availability or unavailability of the required data, the indices used in the present study are somewhat different from the ones used by Afshar (2011) and Shabani et al. (2017).   Funding There is no funding support.   Authors’ Contribution All of the authors approved the content of the manuscript and agreed on all aspects of the work.     Conflict of Interest Authors declared no conflict of interest.   Acknowledgments We are grateful to all the scientific

The two terms "Objective" and "subjective" nowadays mean, respectively, "external" and "mental". But these terms in their primary usage in Middle Ages (from Dunes Scotos) have had exactly the opposite of today"s meaning: "Objective" has meant "mental;""" and "subjective" has meant "external". These old (and nowadays completely strange) meanings have been current in philosophical literature, especially in Descartes and his contemporaries, e. g. Spinoza and Berkley. This paper tends to argument that the word "Objective" must be taken as meaning "mental" in Descartes" philosophy (and other philosophers" up to 19th century), and not to confused with its modern meaning (i. e. "external").

Out-of-domain intent detection in natural language understanding systems faces significant challenges from suboptimal threshold selection and signal degradation through inappropriate normalization techniques. This paper presents an adaptive ensemble thresholding framework that substantially extends our previous conference work by addressing fundamental limitations in existing variational autoencoder-based detection methods. Our approach combines reconstruction loss from variational autoencoders with classifier confidence scores to create a unified detection signal that captures both semantic deviation and prediction uncertainty. The framework incorporates a novel smart scaling strategy that preserves natural separation ratios between in-domain and out-of-domain samples, preventing the signal destruction caused by standard normalization approaches. Through systematic parameter optimization using grid search techniques, the method adaptively determines optimal ensemble weights and threshold selection strategies tailored to specific dataset characteristics. We evaluate our framework across multiple datasets with varying semantic complexity and domain structures, demonstrating consistent performance improvements over baseline variational autoencoder approaches and recent state-of-the-art methods. Compared to our previous VAE-based approach, the framework demonstrates an average performance gain of 3.15 percentage points across all evaluation metrics. Our analysis reveals that ensemble scaling strategy significantly impacts detection performance, with proper signal preservation being more critical than sophisticated threshold selection methods. This work provides a principled approach to adaptive ensemble learning for out-of-domain detection, offering a robust solution that generalizes effectively across diverse datasets and linguistic contexts including low-resource languages like Persian.

Objective: Self poisoning is one of the most common forms of suicides and a frequent cause of hospitalization in Accidents and Emergency Departments, especially in the younger age groups.This research was prompted by the current lack of reliable and adequate information on the epidemiology of suicide, and its main Objective was to provide a basis for effective interventions in the future. The present article is the second section of a two-part paper on the epidemiology of self-poisoning in Iran.Methods: This was a cross-sectional study conducted in Tehran, Mashad, Tabriz, Isfahan, Shiraz and Kermanshah (5 major Provinces of Iran). This article deals with results from data analysis and comparisons between cases of suicide and accidental self-poisoning.Results: In all, 723 cases were studied. Among those who had committed suicide, the frequency of severe physical illness was greater in women compared to men (P<0.002). The mean age of the subjects who expressed regret after the suicidal gesture was significantly lower than those who did not (P<0.003). Moreover, subjects who had a real intention to kill themselves were significantly older than those who did not have such an intention (P<0.01). Results from logistic regression analysis showed that higher age, male gender, and residing in Tehran were associated with a higher probability of deliberate self-poisoning (P<0.001 for all the three variables). In addition, having a definite plan for suicide and previous history of a suicidal attempt were significantly related to having real intention to die (Odds ratios 2.52 and 1.87, respectively) Conclusion:  Most hospitalizations in poisoning wards (>74%) involve suicidal self-poisoning. Measures must be taken at all three levels of prevention with special attention to the epidemiology of the problem in different regions.