literary fiction can be criticized and analyzed through different approaches and literary schools. meanwhile, the most attention has been devoted to realism, as the most important and permanent intellectual concern of many writers. iranian modern literary fiction has shown its affection to realism from the beginning, and most of iranian writers have tried to illustrate the social-political situ...

in this paper, a house is assumedas an expression of culture. it has been tried to study a qajar1 house in tabriz, in terms of its ties with cultural context.methods and viewpoints of amos rapoport have been used in order to identify and peruse the circumstance of this relationship. the main reason for using rapoport's viewpoints to understand salmasi house, as a case study, in addition to cont...

Natural History Statistics Older statistics estimate that in the United States, acute pulmonary thromboembolism afflicts 500 000 to 600 000 persons annually and is either a primary or secondary cause of death in 150 000 to 200 000 of these individuals.1,2 Extrapolation of a population-based study from data accumulated in 1985 through 1986 in Worcester, Mass, suggests that each year there are '1...