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The Golden Adornments of the Holy Shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf [PDF]
As the warriors of Islam entered Persia they realized that the people of this land behold an ancient historical, cultural and artistic heritage. The people of Persia also acknowledged that the new bestowed religion will ultimately enhance their culture ...
Alireza Bahrman
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Characteristics of direct human impacts on the rivers Karun and Dez in lowland south-west Iran and their interactions with earth surface movements [PDF]
Two of the primary external factors influencing the variability of major river systems, over river reach scales, are human activities and tectonics.
Frostick, Lynne E. +6 more
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Subject Index of the Diseases Found in the Zend-Avesta [PDF]
The collection of Zend fragments is the bible of ancient Iran, which is known as the Zend-Avesta that contains some points about diseases. The aim of this documentary study is the extraction and assortment of diseases of the Zend-Avesta.
Mohsen Baghbani +6 more
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Iran or Persia : what's in a name, the decline and fall of a tourism industry? [PDF]
The future of tourism in Iran depends on the tenor of the government, whether it be Islamic traditionalist or Islamic liberalist. In Iran religion and politics are inescapably intertwined and inseparable, with the priority of religion over politics. This
Baum, T.G., O'Gorman, Kevin D.
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ABSTRACT This invited paper gives an overview of the challenges the world is facing and offers a possible solution for water and food security within the holistic integrated concept of the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus. The paper summarizes the experience the author gained through working on various research projects at national and international ...
Ragab Ragab
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Managing Uncertainty: Lessons from Xenophon\u27s Retreat [PDF]
Propositions on dynamic capabilities and organizational politics are developed from management literature and are then evaluated using case analysis. The goal is to identify complementary aspects of these perspectives to change from an ancient example ...
King, David R.
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Teucrium polium shows antidiabetic activity with its phytochemical composition and biological activities. The essential oil is rich in carvacrol, thymol, γ‐terpinene, and o‐cymene, while the aqueous and hydroethanolic extracts are characterized by poliumoside, verbascoside, isorhamnetin‐3‐O‐rutinoside, and apigenin‐7‐rutinoside. Antioxidant activity is
Hajar El Ouadni +10 more
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Touraj Daryaee & Khodadad Rezakhani. From Oxus to Euphrates: The World of Late Antique Iran. Ancient Iran Series Vol. 1 Irvine/Los Angeles, CA: Jordan Centre for Persian Studies/Farhang Foundation, 2017, xvi + 106p., ISBN 978-1-780835907.
Matthew Gray Marsh
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Extracting, investigating and representing geographical concepts in Herodotus: the case of the Black Sea [PDF]
In a short break from his preparations for the invasion of Scythia, Darius stops off where the Bosporus was bridged and sails to the Dark Rocks, apparently retracing the steps of the Argonauts.1 ‘There’, Herodotus reports, ‘he sat on the headland and ...
Barker, Elton +3 more
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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
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