Gurinder Chadha and Mira Nair’s films define diaspora as a diaspora space where women are portrayed as change agents. This paper explores how Chadha and Nair provide a different representation and possibilities for South Asian women in the diaspora in the description of arranged marriages and interracial love relationships so that they present pioneering female characters that subvert orientali...

Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures (1994) is the story of two girls in New Zealand who form an intense erotic friendship based on a fantasy world they create, and how their forced separation leads them to commit matricide. Beneath the sensational surface, though, is another story: this is a film about cinema, about desire, and how queer spectators create new and unexpected meanings. This articl...

Many behavioural studies of laboratory house mice have sought functional explanations for their results. This raises the problem of the comparability of behaviour with that of wild house mice from whose naturally selected repertoire the behaviour of laboratory strains has been derived. This in turn requires careful choice of measures to ensure that subtle changes in response during the selectio...

suitable utilization of daylight in architecture, in addition to meeting the physical and emotional needs of human increase the quality of living spaces. from this perspective, our country's rich architecture has valuable achievements and experiences, which requires recognizing and introducing it to the architectural community of iran and the world. the present research intends to examine ...

In this study we explored the most important topics of acculturation experiences among Iranian refugees in the Netherlands, using the Self-Confrontation Method (Hermans & Hermans-Jansen, 1995). We discussed the Dialogical Self Theory reffering to the multiple selves of people who have to deal with different cultures. Ewing (1990) and Hermans and Kempen (1993) argued that a person could have con...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the features of Iranian nursing journals, specifically the subject areas used in articles, study designs, sampling methods, international collaboration of Iranian nursing scholars, specialty and academic rank of authors, and the most frequently contributing academic institutions in articles. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to analyze the content of the ar...

A f r a m e w o r k f o r m o d e l i n g a n d r e c o g n i t i o n o f t e m p o r a l a c t i v i t i e s is proposed . T h e m o d e l i n g o f s e t s o f e x e m p l a r a c t i v i t i e s is ach ieved by p a r a m e t e r i z i n g t h e i r r e p r e s e n t a t i o n in t h e f o r m o f p r i n c i p a l c o m p o n e n t s . R e c o g n i t i o n o f s p a t i o t e m p o r a l v ...