ferdowsi, has beautifully described the important characters of shahnameh. with the help of psychological analysis, one can reach the hidden layers of their personality. this shows ferdowsi’s intelligence and his awareness in characterization. one of the negative and unaccepted characters of shahnameh is called shaghaad, who is rostam’s stepbrother. in his exact description of this character, f...

morphology theory, including the theory that it is highly efficient in terms of structural analysis of literary works. the importance of this theory led to the morphological study of the poem. this article is divided into two parts: the first part deals with the theory of morphology. vladimir propp's model is described in this section. terms of propp's theory is explained in this sect...

1. introduction the significance of rural women’s proportion in human work force is not only in indoor affairs, but also in productive outdoor activities. regarding the fact that women are both involved in indoor and outdoor activities, it is worthy to exactly determine their proportion in economic and social activities. on the other hand, since rural women of different parts of iran are involv...

KHALED HOSSEINI has been widely acclaimed for his debut novel The Kite Runner, an international best-seller. The novel not only launched Hosseini into the limelight as an Afghan-American writer but also bridged the gap between Western literary audience and the culture of the Middle East. The novel is about the friendship of two Afghan boys through the decades, and Amir, the narrator is an expat...

Please cite this article in press as: Rostam (2008), doi:10.1016/j.compeleceng.2008 We consider an incremental optimal label placement in a closed-2PM map containing points each attached with a label. Labels are assumed to be axis-parallel square-shaped and have to be pairwise disjoint with maximum possible length each attached to its corresponding point on one of its horizontal edges. Such a l...

bahman-nāme, a late 5th-century (a.h.) or early 6th-century (a.h.) epic poem, is one of those significant poems that used the shāh-nāme as a model. this story was composed by īrānshāh in four parts. the first part recounts the adventures of bahman, son of esfandīār, who, at the behest of rostam, marries katāyūn, the daughter of the king of kashmir. although generally this poem belongs to the ep...

INTRODUCTION It is necessary for planning in order to achieve optimal development, to have knowledge and understanding of the current situation. This identification requires separate areas of study into planning and assessing regions of each area with development indicators and analysis and ranking each area in terms of having gifts of development. The study also aims to analyze the development...