greimas and other semioticians of the paris school believe that reality is always illusive and that the factors affecting the formation of a narrative are always ambiguous. based on this view, a narrative is always a simulation of reality. based on greimas' actants model, this paper presents an analysis of two stories from tarikh-e beyhaghi, with the aim of revealing two types of narratives; th...

A new tool to extract cross-identifications and radio continuum spectra from radio catalogues contained in the VIZIER database of the CDS is presented. The code can handle radio surveys at different frequencies with different resolutions. It has been applied to 22 survey catalogues at 11 different frequencies containing a total of 3.5 million sources, which resulted in over 700 000 independent ...

We present version 1.0 of the ISOGAL–DENIS Point Source Catalogue (PSC), containing more than 100,000 point sources detected at 7 and/or 15 µm in the ISOGAL survey of the inner Galaxy with the ISOCAM instrument on board the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO). These sources are cross-identified, wherever possible, with near-infrared (0.8—2.2 µm) data from the DENIS survey. The overall surface cove...

in its course of evolution, the sassanian rule accepted a change in temporal exigencies, condition and manner of governance of each ruler where more attention was paid to the institutional establishment, grades/ranking, titles, symbols and administrative hierarchy. in a way, the organizational manner, to a larger extent, could engulf the period into a curtain of ambiguity. one of those ranks wa...

Among the least studied issues in history of Sultanate Mamluks, there are principles and dynamics Mamluks’ interaction with administrative system represented by local elite. The article considers connected transformation Mamluk which took place during Burji period (1382–1517). As early as thirteenth — fourteenth centuries, a gradual displacement representatives civilian population from various ...

Information search and retrieval has become by nature a distributed task. We look at tools and techniques which are of importance in this area. Current technological evolution can be summarized as the growing stability and cohesiveness of distributed architectures of searchable objects. The objects themselves are more often than not multimedia, including published articles or grey literature re...

The proportions of the human figure in Egyptian art were determined on basis simple and rarely changing rules. oldest preserved guidelines used for this purpose come from times Fifth Dynasty, square grids mid-Twelfth Dynasty. objective article is to interpret chapel vizier Akhethotep, dated answer following questions: when they made what rules determine vizier’s body? To do this, author propose...

The Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS) provides homogeneous access to heterogeneous information of various origins: information about astronomical objects in Simbad; catalogs and observation logs in VizieR and in the catalogue service; reference images and overlays in Aladin; nomenclature in the Dictionary of Nomenclature; Yellow Page services; the AstroGLU resource discovery t...