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in persian literature and persian painting, versifying and illustrating khamsa were common for centuries. after ferdowsi's “shahname”, khamsa of nizami is known to be the most popular poetry book in persian literature. the khamsa (quintet) is a collection of five narrative poems called:“makhzan al-asrar”, “khusraw and shirin”, “layla and majnun”, “haft peykar” and “iskandar nama” composed ...

during the islamic period of iran except for public complexes including buildings as bazaar, reservoir, caravansary, etc. there were burial complexes that occupy a special place in the architecture of the epoch. these complexes were first built as the burial ground of a famous political or religious figure and along the time other buildings such as mosque, madreseh (school), monastery, caravans...

RNA INTERFERENCE using short, double-stranded RNA (small interfering RNA, or siRNA) was recently introduced for suppressing gene expression in mammalian cells. Although the molecular mechanism of siRNA is not completely understood, it is generally believed that siRNA induces the degradation of target mRNA in a sequence-specific manner, leading to posttranscriptional silencing of gene expression...

A new method for remotely sensed change detection based on artificial neural networks is presented. The algorithm for an automated land-cover change-detection system was developed and implemented based on the current neural network techniques for multispectral image classification. The suitability of application of neural networks in change detection and its related network design consideration...

Identification of the onset of vegetation greenup is a key factor in characterizing and monitoring vegetation dynamics over large areas. However, the relationship between greenup onset dates estimated from satellite imagery and the actual growth stage of vegetation is often unclear. Herein, we present an approach for comparing pixel-level onset dates to regional planting and emergence informati...

Land cover plays a key role in various biophysical processes related to global climate and terrestrial biogeochemistry. Although global land cover has dramatically changed over the last few centuries, until now there has been no consistent way of quantifying the changes globally. In this study we used long-term climate and soils data along with coarse resolution satellite observations to quanti...

REVIEW ARTICLES History of psychiatry in India S. Haque Nizamie, Nishant Goyal S7 Indian journal of psychiatry and psychiatric research in India: Past, Present and Future Ajai R. Singh S13 The evolution of Indian psychiatric research: An examination of the early decades of the Indian journal of Psychiatry Rajiv Radhakrishnan, Chittaranjan Andrade S19 Research priorities for Indian psychiatry Vi...