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Pandemic Geographies of Home: Domestic Thresholding in Response to COVID‐19

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.
Short Abstract With the home at the forefront of political and public health responses to COVID‐19, the thresholds between domestic space and the world beyond acquired a new significance in people's everyday lives. This paper introduces the concept of ‘thresholding’ to explore the ways in which internal and external thresholds are understood and ...
Alison Blunt, Kathy Burrell, Annabelle Wilkins, Georgina Endfield, Miri Lawrence, Eithne Nightingale, Alastair Owens, Jacqueline Waldock   +7 more
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Newly-found Evidence of Sassanid Simple-pit Burial at Qaleh Iraj, Pishvā, Iran [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies, 2018
One of the most important and, at the same time, uncertain subjects related to Sassanid period is the recognition of common burial customs. Despite great attempts of Zoroastrian religious texts to represent a uniform burial tradition across the whole ...
Mehdi Mousavinia, Mohamad Reza Nemati, Mohammad Mortezaei   +2 more
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Correctable or not? The case of plant epithets derived from the Elbrus/Elburs Mountains in Iran, with further notes on taxonomic grey literature

TAXON, Volume 75, Issue 2, April 2026.
Abstract Plant name epithets (as well as names of other organisms governed by the ICN), which are derived from geographic names, are not correctable when their original spelling was intentional and based on contemporary linguistic realities, even if it is currently considered outdated.
Alexander N. Sennikov, Irina V. Belyaeva
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Reversion, Revival, Resistance

Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer
Both in Iran and India, Zoroastrian communities have traditionally possessed a strong and rigid ethno-religious identity. In recent decades, however, debates regarding the opening of the communities to converts have become increasingly significant.
Benedikt Römer
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Cursing the daēvas as an Example of Verbal Aggression in the Zoroastrian “Declaration of Faith”?

Cracow Indological Studies
This article examines the notion of verbal aggression evident in Zoroastrian prayers. Although one may be surprised that a declaration of Zoroastrian faith, called Fravarānē (Yasna 12), begins with the words “I hate / abhor / am disgusted” instead of “I
Kinga Paraskiewicz
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Heatwaves and Home Births: Understanding the Impact of Extreme Heat on Place of Delivery in India

GeoHealth, Volume 9, Issue 11, November 2025.
Abstract We investigate the effect of extreme heat on home births in India, proposing that such extreme weather events may impede access to health facilities for childbirth. Utilizing geocoded data from the 2019–2021 Demographic and Health Survey for India, we identified the place of delivery of 208,368 births as home versus health facility.
Arnab K. Dey, Anna Dimitrova, Anita Raj, Tarik Benmarhnia   +3 more
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Health seeking behavior study among Zoroastrian residing in Yazd

بیمارستان, 2012
Background: People give you an idea about variety of behaviors when confronting diseases. Different factors such as age, sex, economic and social situations have effect on its.
M Mohegh, A Pourreza, A Rahimi, A Akbari Sari, M Nekouymoghadam   +4 more
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A comparative study of temporary marriage in Zoroastrianism and Islam [PDF]

زن در فرهنگ و هنر, 2015
In Zoroastrian law, there are several indications that denote to the temporary marriage as a legal institution and this can be compared to one law in Imami jurisprudence.
Hossein Badamchi, Kolsoum Ghazanfari, Parvin Davari   +2 more
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Medical Lysenkoism

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, Volume 31, Issue 5, August 2025.
Abstract Medicine is a compound field composed of science and art. The (necessary) degree to which the latter is involved opens medicine, in particular, to the introduction of ideas which do not, by their very nature, submit to confirmation or confutation as do the various methods of traditional science.
Steven K. Baker
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Rad and Mubad in Shahnameh of Ferdowsi [PDF]

متن شناسی ادب فارسی, 2011
In Mazda’s tradition, gods, angels guarding the heavens and earth and any good thing created by Mazda are all entitled Rad. In most of the Zoroastrian scriptures and Pahlavi texts, Rad is also used as synonymous with Zoroastrian religious headman or ...
z Delpazir, aa Shamian Saroukalaee, m Rahimi   +2 more
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