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Book Review: The Book of Nothing: Vacuums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas About the Origins of the Universe, Volume 49, Number 6

According to the Greek poet Hesiod (eighth century B.C.), the world was created ex vacuo, i.e., out of the void that existed before it, rather than ex nihilo, out of nothing. The distinction is fundamental and has led to centuries of commentaries and controversies in the fields of philosophy and religion as well as science. Indeed, a Book of Nothing was already published in 1510 in Amiens, Fran...

Professor Bahram Peimani-Fard

Bahram Peimani-Fard was born in 1941, in Yazd, Iran, where he completed his elementary, and high school education. He received his M.Sc. degree in Soil and Water Engineering from the Faculty of Agriculture, Shiraz University. Then, he was employed in the Range Improvement and Forage Supply Organization, affiliated with the Ministry of Agriculture to collaborate with Mr. Kernik, the FAO expert...

PROFESSOR KARIM SAEI

Karim Saei was born in 1910, in Mashhad, north eastern Iran, where he got his diploma. He left behind his homeland for Karaj city to study at the Faculty of Agriculture of Tehran University. He passed his course very successfully and received his B.Sc. degree in 1931 followed by a scholarship to study for 2 years at Agronomic Institute in Montpellier, France. He graduated M.Sc. with excellent g...

Opponent: Professor

This research is about a small village school participating in an inter-institutional electronic network of schools using information and communication technologies in the context of the Kilpisjärvi project 1994 to 1997. The project concerned the establishment of the lower secondary school in the Kilpisjärvi village. The school was linked with a network which also included the Teacher Training ...