toos fertile plain, located between two mountain ranges hezarmasjed and binalood, has attracted different ethnic groups through ages due to environmental conditions, and has provided a proper ground for human inhabitation and continuation of life since oldest times. discovery of handmade tools dated to lower paleolithic age in the middle of the plain and banks of kashaf river (kashaf rud), exis...

this paper, through analyzing various scenes from randomly selected films, and of belief that the film subjects, if not complete reflections of social relations of humans, surely demonstrate sections of social reality, attempts to explicate the thoughts of scientists in sociolinguistics and sociology of language like labove, hymes, fishman,… , especially related to the features of social acts o...

abstract         sasanian dynasty, who governed as the last and the most glorious dynasty before islam in iran, has had an important role in enrichment of sasanian silver works and we owe the majority of silver works to this era. metalwork is one of the oldest arts iniranian civilization. the prominent metalwork crafts‚ left from different ages‚ acknowledge this fact. the art of this era has di...

The concepts of Virtual Reality (VR) and Virtual Environments (VE) have been introduced as powerful methods for presenting complex three-dimensional scenes. The widely used VR-displays like Workbenches (large-scale horizontal projection plane) and CAVEsTM (secluded room of projection planes) differ mainly from conventional monitors by allowing a stereoscopic visualisation of three-dimensional s...

Many companion cats (Felis catus) in industrialised countries are raised under human supervision and often kept completely indoors. Even if we assume that were not selected intentionally against hunting behaviour, can still hypothesize because of the differences their epigeny prey-related experiences, adult would show different willingness to engage hunting-type behaviours. Play is considered a...