abstract the move toward modernism along with the cultural globalization and the rise of consumer culture make fashionism and also permanent surveillance and focusing on the visible characteristics of the body a common phenomenon in contemporary societies.nowadays, modern people with the use of fashionable things and through paying extreme attention to cloth and appearance construct personal im...

Diagnosing HIV-positive gay men through enhanced testing technologies that detect acute HIV infection (AHI) or recent HIV infection provides opportunities for individual and population health benefits. We recruited 25 men in British Columbia who received an acute (n = 13) or recent (n = 12) HIV diagnosis to engage in a longitudinal multiple-methods study over one year or longer. Our thematic an...

Post World War II suburban growth in Canada and the US has created concern over the long-term availability of farmland to meet food production needs. Subsequent efforts to provide legal protection to agricultural land continue to shape the development of the fringes of nearby urban areas. This paper employs the concept of “agriburbia,” suburban landscapes in which agriculture maintains a signif...

ayn al qodat hamadani has created a unified thought system through jamal and jalal and the dialectic between them. it is impossible to perceive his mindset without a deep understanding of this thought system. this maqian hakim relies so heavily on this duality and other dualities that jumping to conclusions while studying his thought might mislead us to think that he is dualistic. jalal and its...

Human is a small part of nature and with its constant presence in the natural environment, it was able to create an artificial and man-made environment tailored to its needs. Identifying structural components of nature and adapting them to the three dimensions of body, spirit and soul and their role in creating physical, functional and content components in architecture, is the beginning of the...