While anthropological studies in non-Western societies show how funerals protect the community from the threat of death, sociological studies of British funerals have so far focused on meanings for the private family. The article reports on results from a Mass Observation directive - the first British study to focus specifically on the entire funeral congregation - and shows how attendees exper...

foundation for his subsequent scientific and philosophical studies. His school career ended at sixteen but the young man spent two more years with his uncle. His father had decided upon a business career for his son and had made arrangement for him to enter a large bank at Marseilles, but the national situation prevented the realization of any such hope for in 1794 France sent out a call to col...

Dr. Lauri "Tupu" Saxen died last October (2005) at the age of 78. He was a physician, a scientist, a photographer, a naturalist, a great story-teller and a man who enjoyed science enormously. His name has become synonymous with the Finnish school of Developmental Biology, a school that focuses on reciprocal inductive interactions during vertebrate organogenesis. But many biologists probably don...

Thirty-five years ago, B.F. Skinner (1976) lamented a decreasing trend in the prevalence of cumulative records in the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior ( JEAB). The editorial began with the two memorable lines, ‘‘Evidently we have not long to wait for an issue of JEAB without a single cumulative record! I shall not miss the records so much as the kinds of experiments that could s...

kashajam mahmood-ebne-hosein is one of the poets of second era in abbasi age. at first he worked as a cook in the court and then becamed famous as a poet and literary man by abi elhija hamdani .then by his son seif-ol-dole hamdani got attracted to egypt during his traveling. several books are remained after him such as a book of poem in which eulogy and description attained perfection.kashajam ...

Before a president practically begins his four-year term of office in Iran, a formal inaugural ceremony is held in the parliament. Being attended by national dignitaries and representatives from other countries, the inauguration of Iran's seventh president, Hasan Rouhani, was spectacular in several respects. The current study aimed at investigating the generic structure and rhetorical moves tha...