Social scientists strongly believe that cultural norms and values shape, stimulate, direct, influence all activities of human societies. This study attempts to provide a sociological analysis components, in particular the content proverbs included Dehkhoda’s Amsal va Hekam (Proverbs Parables) their role Iran’s underdevelopment. book was chosen because it is by far most comprehensive this regard...

For many Christians there is a renewed urgency about what constitutes Christian belief, and why, or why not, it might be important to share aspects of this with others in a multi-faith, global context. Interwoven in this search are issues of biblical interpretation, Christology and Soteriology. One of the di1culties in the current discussion is this: whilst the “solution” may be presumed to be ...

A correspondent has asked me about the origins of a legend which has become known as 'The phage in the letter'. Common to all variants of this story is the following: one scientist, called X, sends a request to another, Z, for a particular bacteriophage strain which Z has discovered. Z replies saying he is not sending it out. X thereupon plates out the letter and retrieves the phage from it. So...

Here we show that designed transcription activator-like effectors (TALEs) that bind to defined areas of the interferon beta promoter are capable to induce IFN-beta expression and signaling in human cells. Importantly, TALE-mediated IFN-beta signaling occurs independently of pathogen pattern recognition but effectively prohibits viral RNA replication as demonstrated with a hepatitis C virus repl...

Performing and receiving tattoos are typically forbidden in American prisons. What are the intentions of this prohibition? How well does the policy meet its intentions? How well does it promote the broader ends of prison institutions; to protect justice, provide efficient correctional services, rehabilitate criminals, and deter crime? I argue that repealing the prohibition of inmate tattooing w...

When I started writing the paper [19] in 2003 a Google search of the word “copula” gave 10,000 responses. In September 2005 the same search gives 650,000 responses. There is an explosion of activity. What is going on? Many of the web-sites found in the Google search are related to mathematical finance, statistics, extreme value theory, and risk management. Everybody who opens any journal on sto...

In her paper, "Adventure Tales, Colonialism, and Alexander Montgomery's Australian Perspective," Christine Doran discusses an early nineteenth-century example of Australian literature dealing with Southeast Asia. The text analysed is about Borneo, in a collection of short stories by Alexander Montgomery entitled Five-Skull Island and Other Tales of the Malay Archipelago, published in Melbourne ...