story and novel writing have been a traditional legacy of india and they have been a part of indian culture. story writing has a pronounced past and an equally impeccable present. epics like the mahabharata and ramayana as well as fables like the panchtantra are acclaimed as the heritage of glorious works of literature across the world. persian, urdu and hindi languages are very closely linked ...

This paper examines optimal international portfolio choice when equity market linkages increase during periods of distress and investors are averse to disappointing outcomes. I propose a model that captures the joint effect of these two phenomena and show that it leads to a first-order effect on the optimal portfolios. Even during correlated downturns, international diversification is still hig...

It has long been natural for linguists to invoke metaphors taken from the life sciences, in particular evolutionary biology. In recent decades it has been argued that such analogies represent not mere rhetoric or metalinguistic convenience, but actual processes in language development; after all, why should not a biologically-conditioned cultural phenomenon such as language, the collective prod...

in this research, accomplished consideration of fictional virtues of gabra ibrahim gabra in angle of his famous work, “research for valid mosoud” because of two cultural, social and literary progress modernism and post modernism is more obvious then his other works in form and con feat. gabra ibrahim gabra traced in this fictional work his artistic movement from modernism to post modernism in e...

this study investigates the conceptual metaphors of happiness in a representative corpus of modern persian. making use of persian linguistic database, we sampled a corpus of contemporary written texts, to represent modern colloquial persian; then we tried to extract the relevant conceptual metaphors of happiness. the sample corpus contains 14 texts written by contemporary iranian writers. analy...