Naṣīr al-Dīn-i Ṭūsī’s Contribution to the Arabic-Persian Theory of Qāfiya. Venezia, Cafoscarina, 2003, 87 p. + 28 p. en persan. (Eurasiatica, 71).

P-71: Risk Factors Associated with Womens

quṭb al-dīn al-shīrāzī’s appendix to book i of his persian translation of euclid: text, context, influence

the first part of the paper describes the persian translation of naṣīr al-dīn al-ṭūsī’s taḥrīr kitāb uqlīdis by quṭb al-dīn al-shīrāzī, with a primary focus on his appendix to book i. part of a larger encyclopedic collection, al-shīrāzī’s translation continued to be read for centuries. as evidence of the work’s influence, al-shīrāzī’s appendix to book i was included in a nineteenth century prin...

contribution of setting to the study of characters and the main idea in e. brontes: wuthering heights and t. hardys: return of the native.

this thesis aims to adduce an unmitigated and comprehensive explication concerning the relationship of three significant elements of fiction: setting, chracter and theme. my research is basically placed on two outstanding novels of the 19th century: emily brontes wuthering heights and thomas hardys return of the native. my endeavour lies in studying the correlation among the three above-mention...

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

Project Venezia-Gondola (A Framework for P-Commerce)

We have implemented a small-scale peer-to-peer based environ-ment called Comtella, which allows faculty, graduate and under-graduate students to contribute and share URLs of class-relatedresources, like academic and popular articles. The system hasbeen deployed for three months in a university course on ethicsand information technology with thirty-five undergraduate stu-...