Intercropping of agricultural crops with woody species is an age-old practice in traditional farming systems in the tropics. Food production is the major aim of subsistence farmers with most of their farmland being allocated to food crops rather than to trees and shrubs. Due to increasing population and scarcity of productive lands that cannot sustain intensive exploitation, one method that has...

Corresponding author: Azim Mirzazadeh Medical Education Department, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, NO. 57, Hojjatdust Alley, Naderi St., Keshavarz Blvd, Tehran, 1416633591, Iran Tel: +98-21-8895 5712; Email: [email protected] Please cite this paper as: Gandomkar R, Mirzazadeh A, Jalili M, Sadighpour L. Developing comprehensive course evaluation guidelines in Tehran University of Medic...

This study seeks to investigate the influence of plague on Naguib Mahfouz’s novel, The Harafish (1977), which traces changes that take place in an unnamed Egyptian alley after it has been struck by plague. Crucially, plague, along with its biomedical effect, plays a central role de/formation community’s sociopolitical structure. To approach novel as narrative, utilizes Rene Girard’s theory and ...

Shifts from outcrossing to selfing have occurred thousands of times across the tree of life. By reducing the size of the gene pool, selfing should limit adaptive potential. A refreshing empirical experiment with snails supports this long-standing hypothesis.