At the inaugural Castellani lecture last year, Vitarana reviewed the life and work of this creative man with particular reference to his work in Ceylon. It remains for me to include in this lecture, some aspects of our own work, related to his. His rich biography also allows of some gleanings on more general issues of science, science administration and the world of medicine. In discussing thes...

justice is an original fact in the universe. it isnot conventional. and, it refers to the consideration of proportion in doing anything. imam ali lived in harmony with the originally created justice in the universe. he observed the justice in the heavens and the earth and did his best to apply it to his own life and to the islamic society, as well. he thought justice was the cause for the survi...

David Baulcombe was born in the Midlands of the UK into a non-scientifi c family. He studied botany as an undergraduate at Leeds University (BSc 1973) and started his own research group at the Plant Breeding Institute in Cambridge after his PhD in Edinburgh (1977) and spells as a postdoc in Montreal and Athens Georgia. He has been in the Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich since 1988 where he is a ...

Patrick McNamara has made a thoughtful and nuanced contribution to a growing field centered on questions concerning brain activity required for, and involved in, religious life. In a field spanning the disciplines of neuroscience and religious studies it is often hard to find a perspective that has been thoroughly developed on both frontiers for the obvious reason that both are so expansive. Bu...

islamic azad university of maymeh, young and elite research club, maymeh, iran moon is considered a natural calendar for human individuals. proving the crescent sighting is among the issues that all human beings are somehow in need of. similarly, the islamic religious law has subjected some of the important devotional acts upon proving the crescent sighting. this very fundamental function of th...

With the beginning of the 19th century, England entered into a transitional period. Sociologists believe that in each era of transformation, the ruling class tries to establish its own values, but some resistance to these new values is inevitable. Thomas Hardy's novels in general, and Under the Greenwood Tree specifically, are no exception. Based on these notions, this paper tries to interpret ...