the quest for power has formed much of the world history especially in 20th and 21st centuries. oil (energy) particularly after industrial revolution has been a tool for conquest and power and has been transformed to a geopolitical issue. from a geopolitical point of view this has been the case for the last two centuries in central asia and caucasus. central asia and caucasus has always been...

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

today, information technology and computers are indispensable tools of any profession and translation technologies have become an indispensable part of translator’s workstation. with the increasing demands for high productivity and speed as well as consistency and with the rise of new demands for translation and localization, it is necessary for translators to be familiar with market demands an...

The main part of growth performance in birds is as a result of gene combination effects, which their changes require an optimal mating system in order to use general and specific gene combination ability. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the growth patterns of four strains combination Japanese quail in a partial di-allele cross. For this purpose, four strains of Italian Speckled...

In this study, 360 rainbow trout fingerlings with an average body weight of 10.93 ± 0.2 g were divided into 3 group of BV (8, 12 and 16 μg of bee venom powder) and a control group (commercial diet free of honey bee venom) with three respective replicates. After one week adaptation with experimental conditions, the fish were fed with experimental diets for 60 days. Results showed that final leng...

in this study, the effects of oleothermal modification on physical and mechanical peroperties of fir wood (abeis sp.) blocks were examined. at first, some blocks of fir wood with 5 × 20 × 120 cm dimensions were prepared. the blocks were treated in soybean oil. the effects of 3 factors such as treatments temperature (180and 200 °c), holding time (12 and 15 h) and initial moisture content of wood...