1. introduction in epic narratives, heroes have a specific and key role in the processing of epic development. some heroes’ roles are based on the situation in which they have been created. thus, the epic narrator states their life journey from the beginning to the end in a vicissitude process. however, some heroes do not have a specific position in epic stories as they appear as a thunder in s...

abd allah b.sa’d, believed in islam and for a short time recorded divine revelations; but then he lost his faith. historical studies prove that his apostasy has no relation to writing celestial words. but story-writers who often lack an analytical mind, perhaps credulously or tendentiously connect his blaspheme to the act of recording sacred verses. these unfounded stories have entered history ...

It is a great honour to be asked to give the Stanley Davidson lecture in this famous medical school, where he was regius professor of medicine from 1930 to 1938 and did so much of the work that has made him rightly world-famous. His energy flowed into many fields of general medicine-nutrition, dietetics, and therapeutics, but into haematology and rheumatology perhaps most of all, subjects which...

In his paper, “On a Partition Function of Richard Stanley,” George Andrews proves a certain partition identity analytically and asks for a combinatorial proof. This paper provides the requested combinatorial proof.

the notion of peace, regardless of theorizations accepted in th field and since the                  enlightenment period, and the era known as modernism, has, constantly, been one of the challenges of mankind, and also scientists in the field of political sciences and international relations.  contrary to the presentation of the idea of peace and respect to the human rights in some of the fore...

This article is an overview of the special issue "G. Stanley Hall's Adolescence: A Centennial Reappraisal." First, a brief biography of Hall is presented. Then each of the six articles in the special issue is summarized. Three of the articles are by historians and three are by psychologists, but all six articles integrate history and psychology.

PROVIDENCE – Dr. Steven A. Rasmussen, the newly appointed chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, recently reflected on his more than three decades at Brown. In an interview with the Rhode Island Medical Journal at his office on the Butler Hospital campus he recalled his early years in the 1970s as an undergraduate, when ...