this research is to study the iranian society in the first era of the qajar reign. an important feature of this era lies in its traditional socio-political structure's not being affected by the western civilization. thus, the political behaviour of this society is naturally and to a great extent harmonious with the iranian historical background. in this historical juncture, the roots of au...

Many critics have speculated on the influence of Western literature English romantic poets. Mainstream scholars often referred to Greek, Roman, and sources, attributing genealogy topoi West, while turning a blind eye impact non-Western culture. As result, Arabic materials Romantic poetry during eighteenth early nineteenth centuries remains insufficiently recognized. The present study challenges...

The western corn rootworm, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera (LeConte), is a major pest of maize, Zea mays L., in the United States and Europe, and it is likely to increase in importance as a trend toward increasednonrotatedmaize favors larger rootwormpopulations.Options for rootworm management in nonrotated maize in Europe and in nontransgenic “refuge” areas in countries that permit transgenic ma...

Bruce Western has produced some superb quantitative empirical research in the past decade and a half, from his early work on corporatism, unions and wages (e.g. Western, 1991, 1997; Western and Healy, 1999) to his more recent study of the causes and consequences of incarceration in the United States, of which Punishment and Inequality in America is the culmination. The topics are important. Res...

uring the 1980s, crisphead lettuce, butterhead lettuce, and spinach crops in western Oregon (Fig. 1) became increasingly damaged by beet western yellows luteovirus (BWYV) (5,8) infection (15), a previously insignificant problem in this area. Utilizing double antibody sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (DASELISA) methodology (2), we identified potential BWYV inoculum sources in vicinitie...

The western corn rootworm, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera (LeConte), is a major pest of maize, Zea mays L., in the United States and Europe, and it is likely to increase in importance as a trend toward increased nonrotated maize favors larger rootworm populations. Options for rootworm management in nonrotated maize in Europe and in nontransgenic "refuge" areas in countries that permit transgeni...

To pronounce the name ‘Lesgaft’ in Western educational circles is likely to evoke puzzled cries of ‘Les who?’. While Ling and Nachtegall, Jahn and Tyrs have received world-wide recognition for their contributions to the development of physical education and schools of gymnastics, Lesgaft’s glory is mostly unsung outside his native Russia.1 Many Western publications have tended either to underes...

Plant resistance is a promising control method for the two most damaging insect pests of maize, Zea mays L.: the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis (Hübner), and the western corn rootworm, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte. Fifteen experimental lines of maize, derived from a backcross breeding program designed to introgress resistance to European corn borer from Peruvian maize into tw...