background and aims : the harms resulted from home injuries are a major factor in child mortality. the current study aims to evaluate the factors associated with the knowledge and performance level of mothers in terms of adopting preventive behaviors to avoid home injuries. materials and methods : the target population of this descriptive - analytical study is all mothers of preschool children ...

1. introduction since the early hegira centuries up to the contemporary era “one thousand and one nights” stories have been translated into arabic. during this period we have been confronted with a great many of the translators doing translation jobs from various source languages into different target languages, thus we are bearing witness to the imposition of variegated tastes and styles into ...

1. introduction persian literary works with no apparent political themes have for long played an effective role in the political orientation of iranians. in fact, a great part of iranshahri political doctrine has found its way intothe literary works in the islamic era. these include the four firstchapters ofnizami’smakhzan al-asrar(the treasury of mysteries). a glimpse at nizamiganjavi’s biblio...

Salma Siddique is an academic and clinical anthropologist in Scotland. She obtained her doctorate anthropology from the University of St. Andrews later became a practicing psychotherapist supervisor. honorary lecturer at teaches psychoanalytical anthropology. lectured for five years psychotherapy Aberdeen ten before that across disciplines mental health complementary alternative Edinburgh Napie...

An ethnographic approach to language aims at explaining the organization of a verbal culture, understood as the result of speakers’ practices and agency. The instrument of this research is fieldwork. For the verbal cultures of bygone societies, only examination of written records helps us to guess how speaking worked at the time. This general issue is addressed by scrutinizing a medieval Catala...

Analysis of the historical development of doctrines and theological motifs is a crucial but often neglected element of the interpretive process. Such investigations protect the interpreter from making the common mistake of reading later ideas back into the biblical text. This survey outlines the major views on Creation and the age of the earth advocated by Christians and Jews throughout history...

introduction in a series of written texts surviving from the pre-islamic religion, apocalyptic literature has the vital role that deals with the matter of intuition and dreams that some qualified people experienced and also retold them. this revelation is universal and popular with most religions and ethnic groups. since the awareness of metaphysical issues and predicting future events and dist...

In 1925 the Carnegie Corporation granted $50,000 to Louisiana, a state then “backward in library development,” to fund a demonstration of rural public library development. Essae M. Culver, a California librarian, was chosen to direct the project. Culver arrived in Louisiana to fi nd that the entire state needed organizing. She concluded that the parish (county) was the appropriate unit upon whi...

Beginning with an overview of the debate over American women writers and the academic canon, this essay inventories four clusters of American women writers—domestic novelists, regionalists, modernists, and writers of diverse ethnicities—within a representative sampling of small-town public libraries across the Midwest from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. The survey reveals som...