The contemporary writer, Reza Barahani, has criticized the social and political structure of his society in his novel Ruzegar-e Duzaxi-ye Aghaye Ayaz. In Frankfurt school’s critical approach to art and literature the disapprobation of situation of society and the correction of internal contradictions of society is important, so we aim to study the novel due to theory of Herbert Marcuse and Theo...

A revolutionary entrepreneur strategically chooses the revolutionary agenda to maximize the likelihood of revolution. Citizens have different preferences and can contribute varying degrees of support. This presents the revolutionary entrepreneur with a tradeoff between extensive and intensive margins of support. We show: (1) Extremists exert a disproportionate influence over the revolutionary a...

A conversation with a historian of Russian theology the Modern era touches upon continuity some key ideas that are characteristic Diaspora Theology 20th century in relation to whose origins found spiritual and academic 19th early centuries. Contrary well-established opinion post-revolutionary emigration was new, breakthrough phase theological development, author shows such concepts as Trinitari...

A study has been made of the feasibility and scientific potential of a 20 – 100 m aperture astronomical telescope at the lunar pole, with its primary mirror made of spinning liquid at < 100K. Such a telescope, equipped with imaging and multiplexed spectroscopic instruments for a deep infrared survey, would be revolutionary in its power to study the distant universe, including the formation of t...

Microbial biology is undergoing a renaissance, and in this special section we explore bursts of progress in areas ranging from how pathogens invade cells to the origins of life. News reports beginning on this page focus on the extremophiles--unusual microbes that flourish in harsh conditions--while the Articles that follow probe a broad range of topics, including plant-microbe interactions and ...

Most of the solutions proposed to the Yale shooting problem have either introduced new nonmonotonic reasoning methods (generally involving temporal priorities) or completely reformulated the domain axioms to represent causality explicitly. This paper presents a new solution based on the idea that since the abnormality predicate takes a situational argument, it is important for the meanings of t...

Mailing Address: André Ricardo Vale Rodrigues • Rua Buenos Aires, 411/1001 – 30315-110 Belo Horizonte, MG Brazil E-mail: [email protected] Received on 01/20/05 • Accepted on 06/14/05 Since the beginning of the 19th century, coronary thrombosis has been a known cause of death. In the 20th century, this knowledge led to revolutionary treatment and prevention methods for acute myocardial infarcti...