ghazal-khâni, known in the official milieu as kuchebâghi, is a form of free-metered song using poems from the oral tradition, and sometimes even classical poems, sung especially in tehran and the city of rey by amateur singers who belong, in most cases, to a particular socio-cultural class. the place of this vocal genre in official iranian culture is influenced by the status of its singers, who...

Do people who speak different languages think differently, even when they are not using language? To find out, we used nonlinguistic psychophysical tasks to compare mental representations of musical pitch in native speakers of Dutch and Farsi. Dutch speakers describe pitches as high (hoog) or low (laag), whereas Farsi speakers describe pitches as thin (nazok) or thick (koloft). Differences in l...

Do the languages that people speak affect the way they think about musical pitch? Here we compared pitch representations in native speakers of Dutch and Farsi. Dutch speakers describe pitches as „high‟ (hoog) and „low‟ (laag), but Farsi speakers describe high-frequency pitches as „thin‟ (naazok) and low-frequency pitches as „thick‟ (koloft). Differences in language were reflected in differences...

Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. savastanoi (Gardan et al., 1992) (hereafter Psv, according to Vivian & Mansfield (1993)) is the causal agent of olive knot disease. It is considered one of the most serious diseases affecting olive trees (Olea europaea L.) in most olive growing regions worldwide and mainly in Mediterranean countries, where this crop has been growing for centuries. The disease can lead...

Semakin berjalannya waktu, teknologi didunia maupun di Indonesia semakin berkembang pesat, sehingga program pendidikan perguruan tinggi dikembangkan sebagai tempat pemeliharaan, penelitian, dan pengembangan . Salah satu kendaraan yang sering kita jumpai jalan raya yaitu sepeda motor. Sepeda motor merupakan terdiri dari berbagai macam komponen digabungkan, terdapat disepeda saling mendukung terp...

Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni is a shrub-like plant of the Asteraceae family, originating from Paraguay and Brazil, where it is used as a sweetener for therapeutic preparations, such as teas and other beverages, for hundreds of years. It is often called “sweet Paraguay honey” (Genus, 2003). The sweetener compound is obtained from the leaves of the plant by extraction (Prakash et al., 2008). The swe...