Introduction of modern architecture in Iran and its popularization in 1950s and after, brought some new concepts in everyday life of Iranian women, among which was “kitchen as heart of home-life”. Younger members of current generation are grown in these modernized spaces while a bit older ones have experienced houses of traditional style. This study is designed to explore what previous concept ...

davood became fearful when he encountered with his diabetes diagnosis for first time. what effect does this disease can have on davood ’ s lifestyle? in this case, the nurse describes how davood ’ s fear is released by education. i met davood in 1992 for first time. he had been admitted in ward since two days ago, and he had been forced to stay at the hospital through neu-rooz holidays. he acce...

background & aim: the purpose of the present study was to determine the relationship between stress coping styles and quality of life (qol) among patients with breast cancer. methods:this descriptive correlational study was conducted on 50 patients with breast cancer, selected via convenience sampling in kerman, iran. to collect data stress coping strategy scale (moss and billings, 1982) and th...

the study aims at investigating the investigating the interrogative style of poet ibrahim al-makadmeh, who died in 2003. such investigation adopt the scientific and statistical approach which aims at specifying the different patterns of every question word andoutlining the syntactic fatures characterizing thepoets style. the study comprises the numder and percentages of style occrance of each q...

Was the spread of agropastoralism from the Eurasian founder regions dominated by demic or by cultural diffusion? This study employs a mathematical model of regional sociocultural development that includes different diffusion processes, local innovation and societal adaptation. Simulations hindcast the emergence and expansion of agropastoral life style in 294 regions of Eurasia and North Africa....

In this article, I will view realist and non-realist accounts of scientific models within the larger context of the cultural significance of scientific knowledge. I begin by looking at the historical context and origins of the problem of scientific realism, and claim that it is originally of cultural and not only philosophical, significance. The cultural significance of debates on the epistemol...