religion and politics in muslim world are like two next-door neighbors. current developments in the region, no matter they named as arab spring, islamic awakening or radicalism stress the mentioned fact. however, involvement of religion in politics is not inappropriate at all, probably these two are janus-faced and they have synchronically showed tendency to each other: constructive and destruc...

Partial 1D gene characterization was used to study phylogenetic relationships between 17 serotype O foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) viruses in Ethiopia as well as with other O-type isolates from Eritrea, Kenya, South and West Africa, the Middle East, Asia and South America. A homologous region of 495 bp corresponding to the C-terminus end of the 1D gene was used for phylogenetic analysis. This stu...

The aim of the current study was to investigate the perceived psychic distance of potentialtourists in relation to Iran as a tourism destination. The concept of psychic distance refersto perceived similarities/ differences between specific destination and tourist's homecountry. The members of couch-surfing virtual community participated in this study. Thestatistical data were collected by conve...