In the first volume of Waltke’s commentary on the book of Proverbs, the reader is presented with a study both erudite and insightful, fascinating and challenging. Waltke comments in his introduction that he has been engaging with this biblical book for over a quarter of a century; as one works through his commentary, it quickly becomes clear that this has been time well spent, for Waltke has pr...

Tolkappiyam, which is an ancient grammar book of Tamil, not only a book, but it also has the nature presenting theory poetics and can present poetry in detail. The mainly described Thinai literary tradition, tradition as theory, effectively documented heritage i.e., by describing poetic how Agatthinai-Puratthinai literature, are components should be fabricated. In this way, word "Parable" recei...

this paper is concerned with the representation of women in kurdish proverbs based on social interpretive approach and through emic orientation. considering the constitutive function of common sense to produce social knowledge, the paper aims to explore the situation given to women in kurdish proverbs as a part of oral literature. in this respect, the women-related proverbs have been purposivel...

The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) has developed several aids to help software organizations define, manage, and improve their software processes: The IDEALSM (initiate, diagnose, establish, act, and leverage) model for process improvement, appraisal methods that include assessments for internal process improvement and evaluations to select and monitor contractors, and the Capability Matu...

Sa'dî-i Şîrâzî, who was one of the significant figures Iranian literature, educated in Nizâmiyye Madrasah, acquainted with many poets, sufis and religious scholars, spent most his life travel, also visited Anatolia during travels, influenced poets writers grew up Islamic countries works. Sa'dî's influence not only limited to Persian but left important traces western world Turkish Urdu literatur...

science and art of pediatrics, and gives practical rules for diagnosis and prognosis, and also deals with the essentials of infant feeding and the principles of scientific treatment. Ever since the days of Hippocrates aphorisms have been a favourite mode of expressing the essential truths of medical science. It is not to be expected that all will agree with all the statements, but we agree with...

due to its unique features derived from ancient iranian history and culture, ferdowsi’s shahnameh has captured the attention of all iranian social classes including the folk. the interest of the folk in the shahnameh can be witnessed in the common proverbs they use. the hemistiches, couplets and themes of this great masterpiece used as proverbs, or the proverbs including allusions to the epic s...

CONCRETE, OR AUTISTIC? ALGIMANTAS M. SHIMKUNAS, MALCOLM D. GYNTHER, AND KATHLEEN SMITH Washington University School of Medicine Psychopathology was more effective in predicting autistic responses to proverbs of acutely ill schizophrenic patients than was intelligence as measured by the Wechsler Vocabulary subtest. Autistic responses decreased significantly from preto post-S wk. of hospital trea...

the purpose of this study was to analyze selected wolaita proverbs for their reflection of prejudiced negative images of femininity. the subjects used for the current study were 20 theme-relevant proverbs collected by interviewing systematically selected 12 elders and conducting participant-based observation. the qualitative research design was used to conduct this study. the result indicated t...