In his poem “Playing Haydn for the Angel of Death,” Bill Holm plays a Haydn sonata in order to entice Death into a dance, an activity that erodes his appetite for ghoulish work: when the music ends, he will “nap a while and stay away.” Death’s visit is delayed, at least for the time being. “That’s the idea,” concludes Holm. “I got it from Haydn.” Holm’s poem is just one example of a phenomenon ...

like other religions, there are various currents in imami shiite in the first centuries. this article, relying on discourse analysis and by concentrating on oppositions, attempts to identify the internal shiite currents in iraq and iran in the second and third centuries. according to historical evidences, the opposition between school of hisham ibn al-hakam and majority of shia, which was schoo...

Sixteen subjects, with sickle-cell anaemia, all Iranians (ages 3 to 56 years), with very mild symptomatology are reported. Some of the subjects had been totally asymptomatic. Splenomegaly was noted in 9 cases. There was an increase in the mean level of fetal haemoglobin (18%); this is the probable explanation for the mild phenotype. In 29 subjects with sickle-cell trait, the level of HbF was al...

In ancient Tamil Nadu, countless literatures emerged in the world of literature due to patronage poets who knew depths sea like Literature. A country's greatest wealth is its literature. Sangam best we have that respect. Poets had political knowledge along with literary knowledge. They became ministers and lifelong friends patrons supported them. The patrons, seeing poets, cheered a child has s...

It is often assumed that there a confrontation between science and Islam, especially in religious communities. Biological evolution one of the constant sources contention due to its metaphysical implications. Although are some empirical data showing low acceptance understanding basic principles Sunni-majority countries, has been categorical lack about Iran as most influential Shiite-majority st...

As computing systems get larger in capability a good thing they also get larger in ways less desirable: cost, volume, power requirements and so on. Further, as the datastructures necessary to support large computations grow physically, the proportion of wallclock time spent communicating increases dramatically at the expense of the time spent calculating. This state of affairs is currently unac...