The present study sets out to investigate whether the position of literary works in the English literary polysystem influences the Iranian translators’ translational behavior at the textual level. Given the prominent position of canon and bestseller novels in English literary polysystem, the study intends to find out whether the translators of canon and bestseller novels are faithful to theirso...

amorphous In–Ga–Zn–O thin-film transistors Tze-Ching Fung, Chiao-Shun Chuang, Charlene Chen, Katsumi Abe, Robert Cottle, Mark Townsend, Hideya Kumomi, and Jerzy Kanicki Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA Canon Research Center, Canon Inc., 3-30-2 Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku, Tokyo 146-8501, Japan Silvaco International, Santa...

since the time man observed his picture in the water, mirror has en-tered both man’s spiritual and material life. the role of mirror has un-dergone a lot of changes, ranging from foretelling to its use by barbers in different situations, to its use as warfare, mystic allegories, literal metaphors and historical narrations such as alexander mirror located in alexandria. the present study aims to...

some believe that ancient mythological and literary texts solely aimed to amuse and entertain, and were sprouted from their feelings and thoughts, and do not regard the study of the ancient and mythological stories as having the definiteness and clarity which science is known for it. hence, this is why mythological stories in reality convey the beliefs, nature, attitudes and the extent of human...

The aim of this section is to develop a high-performance semantic indexing system using Gaussian mixture model (GMM) supervectors and tree-structured GMMs [1, 2]. GMM spervectors corresponding to six types of audio and visual features are extracted from video shots by using tree-structured GMMs. The computational cost of maximum a posteriori (MAP) adaptation for estimating GMM parameters are re...

Ever since German liberalism began to infect the world of New Testament studies in the latter part of the eighteenth century, conservative scholarship has fought valiantly to defend the authority, historicity, and inerrancy of the Scriptures. This battle has been waged on many fronts including textual criticism, biblical theology, and introduction. In the field of introduction, particularly, co...

Background Maternal lifestyle and behaviors during pregnancy have been associated with future health outcomes for mothers and babies. Iranian Traditional medicine, which is a holistically-oriented medical discipline, has special attitudes towards pregnancy. The purpose of the study is the investigation of maternal health in medical books of ancient Iran. This study is a systematic review scruti...