architecture has been always recognized as a framework which is influenced by social beliefs, traditions and interactions and furthermore affects individual soul and tendency. therefore it is impossible to analyze and consequently identify an architectural artifact if not accompanied by analysis of intellectual fundamentals of its contemporary society. the ensemble of sheikh safi al-din which i...

Tasavvuf, amacına ulaşmak için çeşitli araçlardan yararlandığı gibi, güzel sanatlardan da istifade etmiştir. Bu bağlamda tasavvuf ile mûsiki arasındaki güçlü ilişkinin sonucu olarak, Türk mûsikisi tarihi boyunca tarikat çevrelerinden birçok mûsikişinas yetişmiş, tekkeler ve dergâhlar mûsikinin icra edildiği ortamların en önemlilerinden olmuştur. Tekke ortamının ihtiyaç alışkanlıkları doğrultusu...

Our concern is in explaining how and why models give us useful knowledge. We argue that if we are to understand how models function in the actual scientific practice the representational approach to models proves either misleading or too minimal. We propose turning from the representational approach to the artefactual, which implies also a new unit of analysis: the activity of modelling. Modell...

A lexis Carrel, recipient of the 1912 Nobel Prize in Medicine, was born in a small townnear Lyon, France, on June 28, 1873. His father, a wealthy textile manufacturer, died when he was 5 years old. He was educated in Jesuit schools and entered medical school in 1890, at the age of 17. During the 1890s, Carrel interned at several hospitals near Lyon and was described as a “good but not brilliant...

At an estimated $7–10 billion annually, the global trade in illegal wildlife parts is comparable in economic value to human trafficking, and the smuggling of weapons and drugs (Wasser et al. 2008; Wyler & Sheikh 2013). Basic economic principles of supply and demand ensure that, as target species become ever rarer, their market value continues to rise, gradually pushing them towards extinction (...

OBJECTIVE To provide data on herbal medicine (HM) use and safety in patients attending a nephrology clinic at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City (SKMC), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE). METHODS A prospective, 3-month study between June and September 2007, investigated all patients presenting to the Nephrology Clinic of the Sheikh Khalifa Medical center (SKMC) in Abu Dhabi, UAE. A structured qu...