AvMA's silver wedding, and a funeral.

For Host Factors Weddings and a Koch’s Bacillus Funeral: Actin, Lipids, Phagosome Maturation and Inflammasome Activation

An Anthropological Study of Death and Funeral Ceremony with focus in Gilan Province

A rite of passage is a ritual event that marks a person's transition from one status to another, including birth, coming-of-age, marriage and death. One of the rite of passage is funeral and its Rituals .A funeral is a ceremony for honoring, respecting, sanctifying, or remembering the life of a person who has died. Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture...

A comparative sociopragmatic analysis of wedding invitations in American and Iranian societies and teaching implications

Wedding invitations (WIs), as a uniquely socially and culturally constructed genre, provide a distinct opportunity  to  compare  the  sociocultural values of different  speech  communities  as reflected  in  the  textual  content  and  organization  of  the  different  moves.  Students  can  be exposed  to  this  genre  and  its  different moves  using  a  genre-based  pedagogy. Genre-based ped...

Iranian Wedding Invitations in the Shifting Sands of Time

As a distinct socially constructed genre, wedding invitations (WIs) offer a fruitful site for investigating how two areas of genre knowledge (i.e., form and content) change over time under the influence of sociocultural forces. Through the examination of 100 Iranian WIs dating from 1970s to the present time, the study investigated the trajectories of change through time within the social semiot...

عوامل مؤثر بر همه‌گیری شیگلا فلکسنری در شهر اصفهان در سال 1394: مطالعه مورد- شاهدی

Background and Objectives: Epidemics of diarrhea caused by contaminated food and water occur frequently worldwide, especially in developing countries. The aim of this study was to identify the factors contributing to the development and spread of diarrhea epidemics caused by Shigella  flexneri  in Isfahan in the spring of 2015.   Methods: Following the first reports and activation of the surv...