The unbearable lightness of participating? Revisiting the discourses of "participation" in archival literature

Leisure time and recretional activities for people with intellectual disabilities: literature review of its nature, barriers, strategies and effects

Abstract: Background and Aim: In the contemporary world, investigation about how to spend leisure time and participating in recreational activities along with the researches concerning work and its effects has been paid attention to by many authors. The aim of the present paper is to investigate the quality of leisure time and the role of recreational activities in the life of people with inte...

Revisiting the Past: Contribution of Counter-narratives in Liminal Formation of Identity in Yasmin Crowther's The Saffron Kitchen

In diasporic literature the question of identity is tangled with the question of history. This study aims at discussing how Yasmin Crowther reviews the Persian tradition in The Saffron Kitchen, her autobiographical novel which is mainly set-in early 60s, Iran. The novel focuses on evoking and rewriting history by using different types of counter narratives that contrast with Iranian hegemonic d...

Existential Investigation: The Unbearable Lightness of Being and History

Revisiting The Relationship between The Ejaculatory Abstinence Period and Semen Characteristics

Variations in the ejaculatory abstinence durations suggested by different guidance bodies have resulted in a growing concern among researchers over what the concise period of ejaculatory abstinence for an optimal semen sample ought to be. Several studies have been undertaken to examine the association between the length of sexual abstinence and semen characteristics. Not all studies, however, h...

The Unbearable Lightness of Distributed Programming: A Survivor's Guide