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A comprehensive review of HVS‐I mitochondrial DNA variation of 19 Iranian populations
Abstract Iran is located along the Central Asian corridor, a natural artery that has served as a cross‐continental route since the first anatomically modern human populations migrated out of Africa. We compiled and reanalyzed the HVS‐I (hypervariable segment‐I) of 3840 mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences from 19 Iranian populations and from 26 groups ...
Motahareh Amjadi +4 more
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Totemism and Its Role in Negating Practice of Marriage among Siblings in Ancient Iran [PDF]
Marriage among siblings has remained a controversial subject in the study of ancient Iranian customs and rites, especially in regard to Zoroastrianism. There have been endless debates on the existence of such a custom in ancient Iran.
Reza Satari, Marzieh Haghighi
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Iranian classical dance as a subject for empirical research: An elusive genre
Iranian classical dance is a rich resource for academic research, both for humanities scholarship and for the empirical disciplines (e.g., empirical aesthetics, experimental psychology, affective neuroscience). To support such research, this paper (a) describes the aesthetics, characteristics, and history of Iranian classical dance; (b) outlines issues
Julia F. Christensen +2 more
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Health seeking behavior study among Zoroastrian residing in Yazd
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 +4 more
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La enseñanza del derecho en los sistemas legales islámico, judío y zoroástrico [PDF]
Analiza a la luz de la enseñanza del derecho las semejanzas y diferencias de los sistemas jurídicos islámico, judío y zoroástrico. El estudio permite así contemplar las relaciones y desencuentros que se dan entre estas tradiciones jurídicas orientales ...
Jany, János
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Introduction. Retirement resources are considered one of the key determinants of well‐being and coping with the challenging situations of retirement courses. Therefore, due to the lack of a valid questionnaire for research and practice at the national level as well as international comparisons, this study was conducted to translate the original ...
Elaheh Shoushtari-Moghaddam +3 more
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From Manichaeism to Zoroastrianism: On the History of the Teaching of the ‘Two Principles’
The essential feature in the religious history of Pre-Islamic Iran is its dualistic worldview. It marks all stages of Zoroastrianism and also Manichaeism, in which dualism can be regarded as the most important Zoroastrian piece of inheritance.
Götz König
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Impersonal Modal Verbs in Middle Persian Zoroastrian [PDF]
Modality is of fundamental importance in studying the structure of all languages worldwide. Providing a comprehensive definition of this notion is difficult. In general, modality expresses the speaker's point of view towards the statement in the sentence.
Narjes Sabouri, Belghis Rovshan
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Renhed og urenhed i zarathustrismen
This paper deals with the relation between the pure and the impure in the late Avestan text Vendīdād. It is shown how, in this religion, there is an almost exact correlation between the cosmic dualism between the good creation of Ahura Mazdā and the ...
Erik Reenberg Sand
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Equality\u27s Future: An Introduction [PDF]
We stand at an extraordinary moment: never before have so many powerful men wished to be women. For the first time in history, a massive number of male and female voters--18 million in fact--cast their ballots to nominate a woman, Senator Hillary Clinton,
Nourse, Victoria
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