A Night in December

tragic contradictions: a comparative study of characterization in eugene o’neill’s long day’s journey into night and mahmud dowlatabadi’s tangna

در طی چند دهه ی اخیر، مفهوم «تراژدی» و «قهرمان تراژدی» توجهی روزافرون را تقریباً در تمام حوزه های نقد ادبی به خود معطوف کرده است. برخی نظیر ارسطو، نیچه، و آرتور میلر به بازخوانی آن پرداخته و برخی دیگر نظیر سارتر، استریندبرگ، یوجین اُنیل، برتولت برشت، و آنتونین آرتود به افزودن ابعاد نوینی به این مبحث همت گماشته اند. آنچه قهرمان تراژدی مدرن را از مفهوم کلاسیک آن متمایز می کند نه لغزش تراژیک متداول ...

Assessment of Nuclear Moisture Density Gauges at a Secondary Standard Dosimetry Laboratory in Ghana during December 2015–December 2017

Introduction: Nuclear moisture density gauges are widely used in construction industry in different countries across the world, including Ghana, on a large scale. Like all irradiating devices, the nuclear gauges should be subjected to radiation safety assessment based on radiation protection and safety principles. Regarding this, the objective of this research was to i...

Night sweats

Although night sweating is a common outpatient complaint medical, literature on this subject is scarce. Tuberculosis, brucellosis and lymphoma are diseases in which night sweating is a dominant symptom, but these are infrequently found to be the cause of night sweats in modern practice. While these diseases remain important diagnostic considerations in patients with night sweats, other diagnosi...

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Elliptic stars in a chaotic night

A recurrent theme in the description of phase portraits of dynamical systems is that of elliptic islands in a chaotic sea. Usually this picture is invoked in the context of smooth twist maps of the annulus or the torus, like the standard map. In this setting ‘elliptic islands’ refers to the topological disks bounded by periodic smooth curves surrounding elliptic periodic points. Establishing th...