in this article naser al-din shah’s accounts of travels to europe (safar-nameh) have bee examined and criticised in a discourse analysis approach. by using this approach, attention has been paid to linguistic factors, co-text and context of the situation (social, cultural, political and historical), and institutional position, as well as the writer's attitude which has been effective in informi...

The Maximum Carpool Matching problem is a star packing problem in directed graphs. Formally, given a directed graph G = (V,A), a capacity function c : V → N, and a weight function w : A → R+, a carpool matching is a subset of arcs, M ⊆ A, such that every v ∈ V satisfies: (i) din M (v) · dout M (v) = 0, (ii) din M (v) ≤ c(v), and (iii) dout M (v) ≤ 1. A vertex v for which dout M (v) = 1 is a pas...

created in 8th century a.h., daqayeq al-she?er is one of the most important rhetoric texts has ever been written. little attentions have been paid to it due to the published unreliable correction. the present paper is going to offer, using some reliable handwritten versions, some new-found information about the author, taj al-halvani, the place it was written in, and the life and the works and ...