technology has had many influences on the iranian society in different eras. today, information and telecommunication technologies have revolutionized the basic structures of society and a new network society has been propagated inside the traditional and semi-modern context. in countries like iran, which are in the process of modernization, a chaos deriving from the transition period is observ...

It seems like in the contemporary era and with the use of approaches which are formed during a passage from structuralism to poststructuralism, a number of fundamental changes have taken place in the different types of relationships between the works of architecture, their methods of productions and different readings of it along with the differences in the types of research and criticism among...

Abortion is forbidden under normal circumstances by nearly all the major world religions. Traditionally, abortion was not deemed permissible by Muslim scholars. Shiite scholars considered it forbidden after implantation of the fertilised ovum. However, Sunni scholars have held various opinions on the matter, but all agreed that after 4 months gestation abortion was not permitted. In addition, c...

BACKGROUND Anthropological studies based on highly polymorphic HLA genes provide useful information for bone marrow donor registry, forensic medicine, disease association studies, as well as designing peptide vaccines against tumors, and infectious or autoimmune diseases. OBJECTIVE This study was designed to investigate the genetic relationship of Iranian Arabs and Jews using HLA-class II gen...