the existence of eight imitations and five translations of hosn va del into other languages such as english and german shows the importance of this persian book of verse. many researchers have sought the sources of this work and some sources have been mentioned, but the imitation of sibak neishaburi from nezami’s khosrow va shirin, as the most important source of this work, has not yet been m...

soil erosion is the most important threat to the soil and water resources among the soil degradation processes in arid and semi-arid regions. this study was conducted in shirin-darreh basin, a semi-arid region in north-eastern iran, to evaluate the performance of erosion potential method (epm) and hydro-physical method (csy) in generating erosion potential and sediment load maps via geographic ...

Ali Shir Nava’i (d.1501) was a famous statesman, poet and linguist, political cultural identity in the Timurid capital, Herat at end of 15th century. The subject this research is first only illustrated copy Nava’i’s Khamseh, which produced Ottoman Royal Atelier. colophon on folio 309v copy, dating 937/1530-31, shows that calligrapher, bookbinder painter Khamseh as Pir Ahmed bin Iskender. This i...

background: this study assessed the removal of organic material and nutrients from full-scale subsurface flow (ssf) constructed wetlands (cws) followed by anaerobic stabilization ponds under environmental conditions. methods: the effluents were distributed evenly in 12 reed beds. samples were taken twice monthly for a total of 6 months from several points in the wetland. biochemical oxygen dema...

Abstract This article examines contemporary Somali diasporic literature by proposing a comparative analysis of Nuruddin Farah’s Maps and selection texts written authors origin currently writing in Italian: Shirin Ramzanali Fazel, Cristina Ubah Ali Farah, Igiaba Scego. Drawing on diaspora studies, theories narrative space, world literature, this argues that places at its imaginative symbolic cor...

to determine the potential habitat of two rangeland species of salsola rigidaand agropyron trichophorum in qasr-e-shirin, iran, geographic information systems(gis) and remote sensing (rs) techniques were used. at first, several maps (vegetationcover and land uses maps and thematic maps of various organizations) were collected orprepared. for digitizing geology, vegetation and conventional state...

The weak absorption spectrum of dideuterated water, D2O, has been recorded by Intracavity Laser Absorption Spectroscopy (ICLAS) between 11400 and 11900 cm . This spectrum is dominated by the 3m1 + m2 + m3 and the m1 + m2 + 3m3 centered at 11500.25 and 11816.64 cm , respectively. A total of 530 energy levels belonging to eight vibrational states were determined. The rovibrational assignment proc...