Under the veil.

Comparative Study of Veil Abandonment and Privacy Abandonment in Iranian Clothing and Buildings before and after The Pahlavi Dynasty

The issue of non-observance of privacy in contemporary Iranian clothes and buildings is one of the most important cultural issues in the country due to its lack of proportion to the Islamic culture of Iran, it has brought various cultural and social consequences in contemporary Iranian society; in particular, there are some verses in the holly Qur'an referring to the issue of veiling for women,...

Piercing the Veil of Ignorance∗

Theories of justice in the spirit of Harsanyi and Rawls argue that fair-minded people should aspire to make choices for society — that is, for themselves and for others — as if in the original position, behind a veil of ignorance that prevents them from knowing their own social and economic positions in society. While the original position is a purely hypothetical situation, developed as a thou...

International Environmental Agreements under Uncertainty : Does the Veil of Uncertainty Help ?

Three functionally distinct adhesions in filopodia: shaft adhesions control lamellar extension.

In this study, adhesions on individual filopodial shafts were shown to control veil (lamellar) advance and to be modulated by guidance cues. Adhesions were detected in individual filopodia of sensory growth cones using optical recordings, adhesion markers, and electron microscopy. Veils readily advanced along filopodia lacking shaft adhesions but rarely advanced along filopodia displaying shaft...

Contested Meaning of the Veil and Political Ideologies of Iranian Regimes

Th is article examines the history of the veil and its changing social meanings in Iran. Embedded in the meaning of the veil is the erotic meaning of female hair. Th e symbiotic relations of the “cover” (the veil) and the “covered” (female hair) are central to this history. Iranian political regimes have assigned to the veil meanings corresponding to their own ideologies. Th rough imposed unvei...

Local role of Ca2+ in formation of veils in growth cones.

A previous study that used high-resolution video (VEC-DIC) microscopy to examine axonal growth cones of Aplysia giant neurons growing in culture had demonstrated that growth occurs by the extension of veils of membrane between filopodia and the subsequent morphological transformation of these veils, in place, into the swollen, organelle-filled central region of the growth cone and then into the...