mosque as the house of god has always been significant to rulers, people and muslim artists. it is one of the most ancient architectural subjects. varamin1jami mosque from ilkhanid2 era is one of the masterpieces of iranian-islamic architecture. it was one of the first projects which started the glorious era of renovation after the dark times of the mongols3 invasion. perfect stucco ornaments i...

mosque as the house of god has always been significant to rulers, people and muslim artists. it is one of the most ancient architectural subjects. varamin1jami mosque from ilkhanid2 era is one of the masterpieces of iranian-islamic architecture. it was one of the first projects which started the glorious era of renovation after the dark times of the mongols3 invasion. perfect stucco ornaments i...

The Russian writer and physician Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) draws on his clinical experience in many of his stories. One of his later masterpieces entitled A Case History (1898) depicts a physician's visit to a small industrial community where a wealthy young woman is suffering from diffuse symptoms. The physician, Dr Koryolov, meets the patient and makes a diagnosis. While staying on the estate...

It is a sad fact that among a large cohort of artists and writers, almost all will struggle (say, work for Starbucks) while a small number will derive a disproportionate share of fame and attention. The same applies to the so-called masterpieces that determine a canon: a few pieces displace others from the lists in a “winner-take-all” effect –all the while the neglected pieces languish and disa...

One of the most major and essential tasks in natural language processing is machine translation that is now highly dependent upon multilingual parallel corpora. Through this paper, we introduce the biggest Persian-English parallel corpus with more than one million sentence pairs collected from masterpieces of literature. We also present acquisition process and statistics of the corpus, and expe...

SCIENCE AND CULTURE Correction for “Science and Culture: Petri palettes create microbial masterpieces,” by Jyoti Madhusoodanan, which appeared in issue 40, October 4, 2016, of Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (113:11056–11058; 10.1073/pnas.1610867113). The editors note that “American Society of Microbiology (ASM)” should instead appear as “The American Society for Microbiology (ASM).” The editors also no...