Abstract The article analyses the ways Ḥamīd al-Dīn Balḫī (d. 559/1164) adopted and adapted technique of earlier Arabic authors, most notably al-Ḥarīrī 516/1122), in his Persian maqāmas . It also emends traditional dating maqāma collection.

If ever an architect bit the hand that fed, it was young Arata Isozaki, a mercurial and uncompromising architectural talent who would go on to secure establishment respectability with Pritzker Prize of 2019. But he made his renown designs exhibitions exploring themes death destruction, not least ‘Fractures’ pavilion for 1996 Venice Biennale, which sought stage aftermath Kobe earthquake from yea...

This study evolves a model using the concept of variable flow based on limited outcome empirical studies regarding digital experience critical aspects that require theoretical basis. Flow variables in this modeling use 3 stages, starting from independent (interactivity, usability, connectedness, challenge, skill, telepresence, walfare), component (functionality, psychological, content/promoting...

131 Recently, in a breakthrough research, scientists from University of Barcelona, Axilum Robotics France and Harvard Medical School have successfully demonstrated a conscious transmission of information between the minds of emitter and receiver subjects far away from each other. Scientists believe that such ‘hyperinteraction’ technologies will have a profound impact on the social structure of ...

This paper makes a theoretical contribution to the IMP tradition by revisiting the relationship between institutionalism and the “markets-as-networks” approach. In particular, the diversity of institutional thought is reviewed and different strands of institutional thought identified. It is argued that an engagement with these broader institutional traditions has the potential to contribute to ...

In this article, I argue that distinguishing 'evolutionary' from 'Darwinian' medicine will help us assess the variety of roles that evolutionary explanations can play in a number of medical contexts. Because the boundaries of evolutionary and Darwinian medicine overlap to some extent, however, they are best described as distinct 'research traditions' rather than as competing paradigms. But whil...

after the boom of pharmacological research during the 1950s, mainly as a result of the screening technique, the identification of active molecules, their reshaping by means of pharmaco-chemical drug design, and the creation of extremely efficacious and successful medicines, the pharmaceutical world sought a new source of inspiration. such biota as the tropical forest, a quantity of plants credi...