one of the most important institutions of a city is hospital as it is directly involved with life of the citizens. this review article aimed to study the circumstance of establishing newer hospitals in isfahan city, iran, which was started in late qajar dynasty era with a pause during the constitutional era and was extended to reza shah pahlavi in its modern form. the main references for this s...

the arab literature undoubtedly was not a suitable position for the perfect philosophy in the past or in the contemporary era; but rays and glimmers of philosophy can be seen in their literature. except the philosophical sufism of hallaj and ibn arabi’s schools which were followed by jalal al din rumi and farid al din attar neishabouri in persian and arabic. the present article has studied the ...

Royal Portraiture is one of the last Iranian miniature styles which more or less can be considered a Synthesis Style and European elements. This style was inspired by Westernization, but underwent important changes during Qajar era. In this research, tries to analyze interpret its ruptures that occurred in era Mohammad Shah. The main issue present project study ways rupture consequences were vi...

[1] Here we describe, test, and apply a spatially explicit, global model for predicting dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) export by rivers to coastal waters (NEWS-DIN). NEWS-DIN was developed as part of an internally consistent suite of global nutrient export models. Modeled and measured DIN export values agree well (calibration R = 0.79), and NEWS-DIN is relatively free of bias. NEWS-DIN pred...

inscriptions in calligraphy, hard stone carving and rock reliefs have a long tradition in iranian art. although from the pre-islamic times many important samples of three dimensional sculptures have been found in iran, during the islamic era, because of the religious edicts and beliefs, that they had the sculpting prohibited, the art of sculpture couldn’t be developed in the way of pre-islamic ...

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...

Introduction For several decades now, the study of resilience has held a prominent place in our efforts to understand the relations among adversity, development and adaptation. The papers in this collection emerge as the study of resilience enters a new and conflicted era. Above the din of critics who call for the resignation of resilience as a tautological, redundant and intellectually static ...