this study seeks to describe and discuss a hemistich, namely ‘‘yours the earth, mine the vulture’s feather’’, of the story of rostam and sohrab in ferdowsi's shahnameh. many commentators and interpreters of the shahnameh have different opinions on the concept and meaning of this hemistich. this has led the researchers to seek the reason of such differences, clues for the provided meanings,...

Codon nonsense mutations include amber, ochre, or opal mutations according to termination codon consisting of three types (TAG, TAA and TGA). Codon nonsense mutations are also divided into natural and artificial mutations. We discussed the interaction of codon nonsense mutations and suppressor tRNAs in vitro and in vivo. Nonsense suppressions do not only happen in prokaryotes but also in eukary...

In the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible (HB), the cantillation marks function like a punctuation system that shows the division and subdivision of each verse, forming a tree structure which is similar to the prosodic tree in modern linguistics. However, in the Masoretic text, the structure is hidden in a complicated set of diacritic symbols and the rich information is accessible only to a few...