“realism” is a critical term which in its specific sense refers to a literary movement in mid-nineteenth century and in its general sense designates a style of writing that has continued into the contemporary period. the school principal, a short novel by jalal ale-ahmad, is a characteristic example of realism in its general sense in which the author attempts to represent people and social cond...

TOPIC: Sleep Disorders TYPE: Original Investigations PURPOSE: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is an independent risk factor for many diseases. While there a known association between OSA and cardiovascular disease, the with intravascular or thrombotic events such as deep vein thrombosis (DVT), pulmonary embolism (PE), cerebrovascular accidents (CVA) less understood. This study looks at distributi...

In this paper, we are concerned with regularized regression problems where the prior regularizer is a proper lower semicontinuous and convex function which is also partly smooth relative to a Riemannian submanifold. This encompasses as special cases several known penalties such as the Lasso (`-norm), the group Lasso (`−`-norm), the `∞-norm, and the nuclear norm. This also includes so-called ana...

the wine poetry is a conscious art which consists of the material and the meaning for the arabs. the famous arabian poets were: al-aktal, abu nowas, ibn el foriz. the wine poetry was an independent section in the persion poetry. the persions poets took that from the arabic poetry and described it as a material and as a meaning. they created many different methods to present it. rodaki, manochah...

To my family and in the memory of my father, iii Now the words are over and the pain they bring is gone. Now you have gone to rest in the arms of the Beloved.-Mawlana Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Without the help and blessings of Allah (swt), the completion of this dissertation and overcoming all the obstacles I have encountered along the way would not have been possible. It w...