gross rainfall (gr) partitioning into throughfall (tf), stemflow (sf) and interception loss (i) was studied in a pure oriental beech (fagus orientalis lipsky) forest located in the central caspian region of northern iran. measurements were performed on a rainfall event basis in a 5625 m2 plot of the kheyrud forest research station of tehran university during 2008 and 2009 growing seasons. gr wa...

The Oriental species of Microplitis Foerster are reviewed. 21 species are recognized from the Oriental region, of which two are described as new, Microplitis narendrani sp. nov. and M. pennatulae sp. nov., and Microplitis carinicollis (Cameron), M. demolitor Wilkinson, M. maculipennis (Szépligeti) and M. similis Lyle are redescribed. Four species, Microplitis areyongensis Austin & Dangerfield, ...

The authors of this article focus on issues related to history, factors, and trends in the development Arab-Islamic studies Russian Empire. presents an overview systematization the main events, names, as well some features formation educational traditions teaching languages, key areas results historical cultural Muslim peoples Near Middle East Muslim at Kazan St. Petersburg Universities fir...

The retirement of Dr Nigel Allan from the Wellcome Library after twenty-six years as Curator of the Oriental Collections marks the end of an era. In 2004, a very successful exhibition of Asian treasures from the Wellcome Library’s collections, entitled ‘Asia: Body, Mind, Spirit’, was curated by Nigel Allan and a small team of assistants from other major London institutions including Asia House ...

The article is devoted to the topical issue of perception and compatibility paronymic pairs among Greek students. In Greece, there are three departments Slavic studies: Department Russian Language Literature Studies at National Kapodistrian University Athens, Languages, Culture Black Sea Countries Demokritus Thrace in Komotini Balkan Studies, Oriental Macedonia Thessaloniki. Students study Russ...

Solar activity has been recorded as auroras or sunspots in various historical sources. These records are of much importance for investigating both long-term solar activities and extremely intense solar flares. In previous studies, they were recorded as “vapor,” “cloud,” or “light,” especially in oriental historical sources; however, the terminology was not discussed adequately and is still quit...

Mapping ideas from cyberspace to realspace: visualizing the spatial context of keywords from web page search results Ming-Hsiang Tsou a , Ick-Hoi Kim a , Sarah Wandersee a , Daniel Lusher a , Li An a , Brian Spitzberg b , Dipak Gupta c , Jean Mark Gawron d , Jennifer Smith e , Jiue-An Yang a & Su Yeon Han a a Department of Geography, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA b School of Co...

Dr. Emmo Gehr has the rare distinction of having passed e:rami/wtion, both in medicine and in Oriental languages at the University oj Berlin. Rence he possesses unusual quali/,ica.tions for the study oj m.edical problems ,in Asia. Tho'ugh still quite yowng, he has made u, 1'l(I1I'W for himself in lepr08Y research and in 1939 wa,s 0716 of the founde'rs of the [,eprosy Study Group in the German R...

Welcome to Odyssey 2012: The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop, hosted by COLIPS (Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society) in Singapore, on 25-28 June 2012. Odyssey 2012 received overwhelming response from the speaker and language recognition community. We accepted 51 papers out of 65 submissions, which we organized into a 4-day technical program consisting of 11 s...