The volume has the feel of an intimate scrapbook of many of the key events and documents in Darwin’s life. But it is more than just a scrapbook: the words are written by science historian, John van Wyhe. A distinguished Darwin scholar at Cambridge University, van Wyhe is also director of the major project to make the entire work of the evolutionary biologist available electronically. Darwin Onl...

OBJECTIVE Houseflies have long been regarded as potential carriers of microorganisms especially fungi. Since pathogenic microorganisms are widespread in the hospital environment, there is abundant opportunity for flies to become contaminated and in turn to contaminate the patient environment and residential regions. The aim of this study was to isolate and identify fungi from the slaughter hous...

Art historian James Elkins, in his book On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art, tells a story of a sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago titled 14 Stations of the Cross. Elkins teaches at the school and was interviewing students about their own religious-themed art. This Stations was “a large ceramic church, about two and a half feet high” covered with a “gray an...

With worldwide progress, development and diversification come tensions between individual, local, national, global identities, the fight for equality justice opposition to discrimination. Iran is no different, but little has been written about historical, current, future identities of Iran’s ethnic groups. This study looks at Azeris, Kurds, Arabs, Baloch alongside Persian identity, which predom...

The article explores how the concept of a book is described in Christmas stories for children, which were included collection called When show smells like tangerines”, published by Old Lion Publishing House, and “Who creates Christmas” Black Sheep House. Ukrainian scientists’ interest exploring concepts’ problems has been growing significantly recent years. Despite this, “book” not yet widely s...

Abstract The House is Black a lyrical documentary by modernist Iranian poet and filmmaker, Forough Farrokhzad. It kind of symbolic visual poem about leper patients leprosarium in Iran made 1962, which transcends time place. This paper describes the ways emphasis on human body, references to historical religious sources, use Biblical verses replace conventional interviews create narrative film. ...

Professional ethnography did not enter Iran until the late fifties. For a variety of reasons which are largely nonIranian and non-anthropological the anthropologists who have worked in Iran since then have concentrated their attention on pastoral nomads, and little work of any anthropological significance has been done in the village sector of Iranian society. My general interest in the histori...

Background: Tariff setting in healthcare is an important control knob affecting the quality, access and cost of services. As part of Iran Health Transformation Plan (HTP) in 2014, the relative value of health care and services was increased to motivate healthcare providers to deliver high quality services. This study aimed to examine the impact of HTP on health services tariffs. Methods: This ...