anton pavlovich chekhov is a russian writer and playwright with considerable contribution in the expansion of world literature including iran. many theater critics and directors believe that akbar radi was influenced by anton chekhov's works, and by using chekhov's achievements and expanding them he has written his own unique and noble plays. this study investigates general properties...

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) dealt in many of his short stories and plays with various phenomena as encountered in everyday medical practice in late 19th century Russia. In A Case History (1898) Chekhov illustrates the physician’s many positions in relation to his patient. According to Mikhail Bakhtin’s philosophy of language, a speaker occupies a certain position from which he or she addresses th...

In her article "Chekhov as a Founder of the Comedy of a New Type" Vera Zubarev discusses Chekhov's innovations within the framework of general systems thinking and the predispositioning theory. To this end, the notion of the positional style is used as a subject of systems analysis. Zubarev postulates that Chekhov's innovative style signified a new era of thinking now known as systems thinking....

Pursuing medicine means to a large extent pursuing medical science. A medical career also includes a substantial amount of writing, particularly for those who enter academia. Apart from science, during their professional lifetimes medical people are exposed to thousands of life stories, into which they, by necessity, intrude. Dealing with individual illnesses, and thus patients’ bodies, brings ...

Current motion planners, such as the ones available in ROS MoveIt, can solve difficult motion planning problems. However, these planners are not practical in unstructured, rapidly-changing environments. First, they assume that the environment is well-known, and static during planning and execution. Second, they do not support temporal constraints, which are often important for synchronization b...

Chekhov’s biographer Donald Rayfield claims, in two different scholarly works, that Chekhov may have been inspired by the Brontë family’s biography when writing his drama Three Sisters (1901). Rayfield’s ideas then turn Blake Morrison and Arlene Hutton their creative adaptations of Sisters, which plot structure were supplemented with Brontëan historical characters themes. In this paper, author ...