In his article "Davis's Poetic Dialogue with Leiris's Autobiography" Jonathan Evans analyzes Lydia Davis's translation of the first two parts of Michel Leiris's autobiography, which shows an encounter between two writers. Davis has also written stories which reference Leiris and thus position him as a precursor. Evans proposes that Leiris is not only a source of influence for Davis, but that th...

since the rate of return on different opportunities for investment is random, the optimal distribution of ones capital is put foreward as a stochastic control problem. in this paper, using modem techniques in the theory of random functions and the stochsatic calculus, the problem is discussed for the case when the information possessed by the different investors, as well as their probability be...

The buyer’s type is his value  ∈ [ ] and the seller’s type is his cost  ∈ [ ]. The buyer’s value is drawn from a distribution (·) whose density (·) is nonzero on [ ], while the seller’s cost is drawn from the distribution  (·) whose density (·) is nonzero on [ ]. A trader observes his own type but not the type of the other trader. The buyer’s ex post utility from acquiring the...

this article examines lord byron’s allusions to persian literature, history, culture and its ancient religion. the influence of persia on byron is considerable. byron was greatly influenced by orientalists such as sir william jones and their translations of eastern literatures. after examining byron’s allusions to persia, one realizes that byron’s attitude with regard to persia appears to be am...

1. introduction in epic narratives, heroes have a specific and key role in the processing of epic development. some heroes’ roles are based on the situation in which they have been created. thus, the epic narrator states their life journey from the beginning to the end in a vicissitude process. however, some heroes do not have a specific position in epic stories as they appear as a thunder in s...

An Iranian Rangeland ecologist, born in 1937 in Tabriz, He got his MSc. in agriculture in 1961 from Tabriz University. He was hired by Rangeland Improvement and Fodder Procurement Organization in 1963. At the early steps of his career, he worked as the head of Daland Range Seed Production Station in Gorgan, and then he worked as the head of Homand Plant Research Center from 1966. He received hi...

The establishment of research institutes devoted to the investigation of cerebral structure and function began during the 1880s in central Europe. Heinrich Ober-steiner, Paul Flechsig and Constantin von Monakow were pioneers in this development. The roots of this trend may be seen in the emergence of histological methods (sectioning and staining) and the pursuit of experimental neurophysiology ...