pazhuhesh-nāme-ye alavi (imam ali,s studies) biannual journal volume 3, number 2, autumn & winter 2012-2013 concessionaire: institute for humanities and cultural studies (ihcs) director in charge: hamidreza ayatollahy editor-in-chief: alireza mirzamohammad assistant editor-in-chief: seyed fakhrodin moayedi executive manager: zahra sadeghi   editorial board bahram akhavan kazemi associate profes...

The Osbourn Trough is a 900 km long, east-west rending gravity low, visible in satellite altimetry data, which intersects the Tonga Trench at 25ø30'S. A recent survey collected gravity, magnetic, echo sounder, and swath bathymetry data on three adjacent, north-south trending ship tracks centered on the trough. The linear gravity low is 20-30 regal less than the regional value and is accompanied...

this paper examines edward said’s views on music and its connection with key concepts such as orientalism and worldliness in his writings. it is suggested that to see the importance of classical western music as a key component of western culture in said’s work, one has to take into account the centrality of culture in his critical views and the stress he puts on its complicity with western imp...

In the international spread of popular culture from Korea since the late 1990s, known popularly as the “Korean Wave,” television dramas have won the hearts of fans and paved the way for rising interest in Korean popular music throughout Pacic Asia and in Asian communities around the world. Indeed, Korean popular music has been spreading rapidly; but, as argued in this article, the reasons have...

introduction: the purpose of this study was formulation and preparation of a proper culture medium for saccharomyces cerevisiae var. boulardii with molasses and animal serum. methods: a fully-crossed factorial design contain 5%, 10% and 20% of molasses (m) with 0, 1% and 5% animal serum (s) was used in this study. the ph of all culture medias were adjusted to 5.6 with acetic acid. the seed was ...

The historical interplay between societies is governed by many factors, including in particular the spreading of languages, religion, and other symbolic traits. Cultural development, in turn, is coupled to the emergence and maintenance of information spreading. Strong centralized cultures exist due to attention from their members, whose faithfulness in turn relies on the supply of information. ...