the prayers of imam sajjad (as) have a special artistic style that contribute to a great body of our religious literature. therefore, it is essential to pay due attention to this aspect of the prayers also known as the prayer literature. in this paper, we try to analyze the imagery created through personification in the prayers of imam sajjad (as) with the aim of portraying emotion, movement an...

Stromata of Trichoderma species having green ascospores were collected in various regions of China. Based on morphology of the sexual and asexual morph, culture characteristics, and sequence analyses of rpb2 and tef1 genes, 17 species with green ascospores were identified. Among them, Trichoderma rosulatum, T. rufobrunneum and T. stipitatum are described as new species, and seven other species ...

Interest in the mathematical structure of poetry dates back to at least the 19 century: after retiring from his mathematics position, J. J. Sylvester wrote a book on prosody called The Laws of Verse. Today there is interest in the computer analysis of poems, and this paper discusses how a statistical approach can be applied to this task. Starting with the definition of what Middle English allit...

A new species of collared lizard, Crotaphytus grismeri, is described from the isolated Sierra de Los Cucapas and contiguous Sierra El Mayor, Baja California, Mexico. This species is distinguished from all other Crotaphytus by its small adult size, green pigmentation within the pale bar separating the anterior and posterior collars, a dull orange colored tail and hind limbs in subadult females, ...

Much of synaesthesia research focused on colour, but not all cross-domain correspondences reported by synaesthetes are strictly sensory. For example, some synaesthetes personify letters and numbers, in additional to visualizing them in colour. First reported in the 1890s, the phenomenon has been largely ignored by scientists for more than a century with the exception of a few single-case report...

P may grind their teeth, chagrin and impatience coursing through their arteries with the above commonplace metaphoric declarations. These declarations pervade what may go down on record as the hottest summer (2012) since weather records have been kept. I won’t concern myself with teasing apart various metaphoric cousins (most commonly, simile, metonymy and personification) on the grounds that a...