jami’s baharestan is one of the most valuable persian literary works; it embodies a lot of fruitful stories and discourses, whose most sources are arabic. though one may find out from jami’s words that he has not used the literary works of his predecessors, an investigation on arabic sources may lead one to lots of background works of the stories of this book. in this paper, we have identified ...

The recent Supreme Court decision NCAA vs Alston (June 2021) has heightened interest in the benefits and costs of participation sports for student athletes. Anecdotes about exploitation athletes were cited opinion. This paper uses panel data two different cohorts that follow students from high school through college into their post-school pursuits to examine generality these anecdotes. On avera...

According to an Anglo-Saxon pun, "gout is the king of diseases and the disease of Kings". In fact, it is well-known that in past times a quantity of famous persons, including Kings and Popes, were affected with this rheumatic disorder. In this paper biographical anecdotes on several Popes (Pius III, Julius II, Julius III, Clement VIII, Innocent XI, Clement XII and Pius VIII), King George IV and...

Historical data are essential in fisheries management and conservation, especially for species that suffered significant population declines prior to ecological data collection. Within the field of historical marine ecology, studies have relied on anecdotal evidence, such as written accounts by explorers and interviews of different generations of resource users, to demonstrate the former abunda...

BACKGROUND Clinical anecdote suggests that rates of eating disorders (ED) vary between schools. Given their high prevalence and mortality, understanding risk factors is important. We hypothesised that rates of ED would vary between schools, and that school proportion of female students and proportion of parents with post-high school education would be associated with ED, after accounting for in...

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