motifs and mythical thoughts through human history go into a variety of formats to survive and are reconstructed, recreated and reproduced in ideas and different worlds. one of these realms and worlds is a mystical world. motifs and common points of the world of myth and mysticism in foundations of knowledge,interpretability, sacred time and space, symbolic language stem the possibility of conv...

one of the main features of contemporary poetry is to deal with various political, social and cultural issues around poet besides richness and personal aspects in art and indirect form. but in the meantime, the emerging technique of mask should be known as one of the most artistic areas of expressing poet concerns and emotions in human and objective form. sayyab in line with other counterparts,...

Thomas Gilovich and Amos Tversky famously claimed that the belief in the Hot Hand in basketball is a cognitive illusion, an instance of the belief in the Law of Small Numbers. They supported this claim with a variety of orthodox statistical tests failing to show any clear evidence of a Hot Hand phenomenon. These researchers neglected to perform any power analysis on this test. Here we show that...

SF functions in contemporary life as a form of myth creation. Myth has a gnoseological function for archaic societies; it creates a whole world-picture by complementing accumulated empirical knowledge with analogies drawn from familiar experience. Thus world-models are structurally similar to myths, combining cognition and fiction. All writing that explains scientific knowledge at the level of ...

in the mythology of nations, there has been a myth known as “the numen of poetry and art” and different cultures have samples for that. this numen has been the connecting point between human being and god (or divinities) that inspires poetry to the poet in an unconscious manner. the writer of this article has studied shahnameh and pahlavi literature to search for this myth in the culture of anc...

This investigation is a preliminary report on a new measure of internalization of the model minority myth. In 3 studies, there was evidence for the validation of the 15-item Internalization of the Model Minority Myth Measure (IM-4), with 2 subscales. The Model Minority Myth of Achievement Orientation referred to the myth of Asian Americans' greater success than other racial minority groups asso...

In this paper a simple model of a three story building with inclined first-story columns has presented. The stories are supposed to be rigid and are connected to axially rigid mass less columns by elasto-plastic rotational springs and linear rotational dampers. The considered model is subjected to horizontal component of fault normal pulse with different magnitudes and the governed nonlinear di...

according to the tradition and ferdowsi’s shāhnāma, the well-known iranian national epic, homay chehrzad is the first iranian sovereign queen of the keyanid origin. her life was an amalgamation of ancient iranian myth, epic and history. she was the daughter, wife and successor to the throne of bahman ardeshir, son of esfandiyār. the sovereignty of homay was not expected by the society. therefor...

plan irregularity causes local damages being concentrated in the irregular buildings. progressive collapse is also the collapse of a large portion or whole building due to the local damages in the structure. the effect of irregularity on the progressive collapse potential of the buildings is investigated in this study. this is carried out by progressive collapse evaluation of the asymmetric mid...