The Bridal-Quest Narratives in fii›reks saga and the German Waltharius Poem as an Extension of the Rhenish Bridal-Quest Tradition

The Effect of Natural Essential Oil Carvacrol and Some Growth Regulators on Vase Life of Cut Flowers of Alstroemeria cv. Bridal

The abscission of Alstroemeria petals is the serious problem at the industry of cut flowers of this plant. In this study, cut Alstroemeria cv. Bridal flowers were pulsed with solutions containing natural essential oil carvacrol, gibberellic acid and benzyladenine (50 and 100 mg L-1), -5-sulfosalicylic acid (1 and 1.5 mM) and sucrose (5 and 10%) for 24 hours. The distilled water was used as cont...

Bridal Pregnancy and Spouse Pairing Patterns in Japan.

In this paper, we examined two aspects of recent increases in marriage preceded by pregnancy (bridal pregnancy) in Japan. Using information on 28,973 respondents to the Japanese National Fertility Surveys, we first demonstrated that increases in bridal pregnancy between 1970 and 2002 were concentrated among women without postsecondary education. We then estimated multinomial logistic regression...

Immortality in the Great Religions and Myths of Iran, Mesopotamia, Sumer, and Greece

In every mythological story, a quest for immortality and eternality depicts man’s inner fervor for unity with gods and the supreme power. Man seeks full immersion in life and longs for immortality at the same time. In other words, he wants to live both in time and in eternity. The desire for eternity in man shows his ceaseless struggle with time, and even more so an intense fight with death to ...

Growth by Stromal Cell Proliferation RANKL Induces Organized Lymph Node

Limning an Original Iranian Manhood from Mazdusht to Javid

The early twentieth-century nationalist discourse in Iran reviled, on the one hand, a Qajar hegemony on account of an exhausted “manifest destiny,” and lauded, on the other, a discourse of masculinity that assumed moral responsibility to protect the imaginary “geobody” of Iran. In this paper I examine how this discourse of patriotism resonates through Mehdi Akhavan-Sales’s poem “This Autumn in ...