the old, rich and popular tradition of verbal story telling by narrators has been prevalent among all indo-europeans, especially aryans who were living in the iranian plateau, in the eastern parts of iran and khorasan. this tradition of oral narration has kept fiction and also historical events and has transmitted them to us. the writer of this article tries to evaluate this tradition and analy...

4 0 7 SUPERNUMERARY FINGERS AND TOES. Bv J. W. CORNWALL, M.A., M.D., d.p.h., LIEUT.-COL., I.M.S., AND S. RAMASAMY AYYAR, Sub-Assistant Surgeon. In the hope that'they may be of some interest and use to students of heredity we publish the pedigrees of two Hindu families each of which possesses several members afflicted with either supernumerary fingers or toes or both. One female from family 2 ma...

samak-e ayyar has been told by sadaghat ebn-e abolghasem in the same way it was recounted in public places. faramarz ebn-e khodadad-e arrajani, in turn, has adopted and retold the story, retaining the same stylistic features used by professional public reciters. ayyari tricks and stratagems are of magical and military nature and are used by common people, wanderers, magicians and fairies in thi...

image of woman in literature is an important issue of critical feminism. it can be argued that literature is the society's mirror, but unfortunately this mirror has not yet reflected a beautiful image of woman. with some exceptions women are usually given a nasty and negative image. this paper is a study on the images of women in some anecdotes and stories that had been written between 6th...

We use an integrative taxonomic approach to revise the genus Anisopteromalus. In particular, we apply multivariate ratio analysis (MRA), a rather new statistical method based on principal component analysis (PCA) and linear discriminant analysis (LDA), to numerous body measurements and combine the data with those from our molecular analysis of Cytb and ITS2 genetic markers (on a subset of speci...

In the manufacture of the alcoholic liquor the starchy portion is first converted into sugars which are next fermented. These changes are brought, about by the activity of various moulds and yeasts, and a culture of these organisms is supplied in the form of murcha prepared from several ingredients. C. M. Hutchinson and C. S. Ram Ayyar describe the manufacture of murcha in the following manner ...

Leptospirosis is a common disease of livestock, pet many countries for cattle, dogs and swine but vaccination may animals and wildlife throughout the world. Sporadic cases and prove only partially effective due to generation of serovar outbreaks of the disease have been reported from USA, U.K, specific immunity, prevalence of several Leptospira serovars Australia, New Zealand, USSR and countrie...