i was glancing at the proceedings of the 3rd national meeting of iranian association of medical editors of december 2010, few points took my attention worth mentioning. of the 173 medical science journals of iran only 54 are registered in the scopus database.1   at this gathering all the talks had been focused on the improvement of the quality and impact factors (if) which is the score that the...

natural light is one kind of light which its main resources are sun and starts. philosophers and researchers believe that spiritual and holy light not only includes material and quantified aspect, but also because of its non-physical properties always treats as a spiritual connector between god and man. light is the main part of existing which not only contacts to the surface of objects, but it...

this article has long been taken of the description and clarification of dramatic signs as well as the structure of the small book entitled draxt ? ?s?r?g “the babylonian tree” (here after bt); a text having comparatively long history in iranian studies which have been interpreted in different ways, by previous scholars. bt is a versified contest between a goat and a palm tree, originally compo...

introduction in this paper, a new approach is applied to explain inner interactions in architectural spaces. this approach is recently used in urban design. it has also been used in architecture in this essay to consider the application of mosques_ madrasah in qazvin. this city as instances of salehich and madreseh is proving the interactions between the spaces of masjed-madresse in ghajari maj...

The following essay examines the roles of Sherlock Holmes and his colleague, Watson, in the social construction of masculine norms in Arthur Conan Doyle‟s The Sign of Four. This novel includes a description of the courtship and marriage of Watson to Holmes‟s client, Mary Morstan—an act of masculine fulfillment that reinforces hegemonic patriarchal ideals of the time. The novel also supports pat...

Animal protectionist groups lobby for the banning of wildlife trapping because of its perceived cruelty and harm to the environment. This paper evaluates those claims and suggests that Christians carefully consider all the data before adopting an anti-trapping stance. Historically, the Christianized West believed that humanity held a privileged position in the world. The world was, either by de...