for the past quarter of a century iran has advocated the setting up of a security regime in the persian gulf by littoral states that excludes foreign powers. this paper examines the reasons behind iran's opposition to foreign participation in persian gulf security arrangements; the steps iran has taken to gain the support of other littoral states for its scheme, and the prospects for iran&...

political legitimacy is one of the basic and major concepts of political science especially      political thought. different views of the meaning and the concept of political legitimacy go back to the roots of political legitimacy. in this article by using a comparative style, the author will attempt to      compare the concept of political legitimacy in imam khomeini and jurgen habermas'...

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this is a descriptive comparative field study. the aim is to describe views of male nurses and teachers about increasing population and then compare the view with each other. sample was 40 male nurses and 40 male teachers which selected by simple random sampling. the tool for data gathering was a questionnaire with three parts. the first part was demographic data, the second and third part were...

UNLABELLED The aim of this study was to develop an automatic orientation calibration and reproduction method for recording the natural head position (NHP) in stereo-photogrammetry (SP). A board was used as the physical reference carrier for true verticals and NHP alignment mirror orientation. Orientation axes were detected and saved from the digital mesh model of the board. They were used for c...

Due to the way BGP paths are distributed over iBGP sessions inside an Autonomous System (AS), a BGP withdraw that follows a failure may be propagated outside the AS although other routers of the AS know a valid alternate path. This causes transient losses of connectivity and contributes to the propagation of a large number of unnecessary BGP messages. In this paper, we show, based on RouteViews...

Purpose: Due to the existence of different cultures, it is necessary to design a multicultural curriculum. Therefore, the aim of this study was validating the multicultural curriculum pattern based on the Foucault's views in the senior school. Methodology: This study was a descriptive-survey from correlation type. The research population was teachers of senior school of Semnan province with nu...

Še authors argue that childhood played a special role in the cultural-historical theory of human culture and biosocial development made famous by Soviet psychologist Lev S. Vygotsky and his circle. Šey discuss how this school of thought has, in turn, in‹uenced contemporary play studies. Vygotsky used early childhood to test and reŒne his basic principles. He considered the make-believe play of ...