one of eco-critical subjects that explore the relation between literature and environment is the man’s specific view to nature, affected by different factors such as sex, time, culture and thought. persian poems have manifested the variety of man’s relation to nature in the course of literary history. five general views on nature have been introduced through the study of persian descriptive poe...

It is widely recognised that microhabitats are important for a variety of marine organisms, yet this knowledge has rarely been applied in the construction of engineered structures as a means of enhancing biodiversity or populations of species at risk. Here we examined the influence of microhabitats on the distribution and survival of the exploited limpet Patella candei on natural shores before ...

The growing demanding from consumers for healthier foods, produced using environmentally friendly farming practices has resulted in the rapid expansion of organic farming. There are numerous studies about the importance of organic farming but the majority of the results are sometimes contradictory, inconsistent and show no clear link between organic farming practices and enhancement of the nutr...

J^ D rawing attention to the Kantian aesthetic that underpins Benoit Mandelbrot's [1] argument for 'an art for the sake of science' does not represent a sufficiently critical engagement of fractal geometry's entry into visual discourse (an entry made largely transparent by the suggestion that art acts as a handmaiden to science). Merely pointing to the extent of this aesthetic debt leaves the n...

the present paper compares nature description in imra’ ul-qais and ibn hamdis poetries with the aim to analyze the nature elements in their poetries – one in dark ages era and the other in andalusian. the main question is that which beautiful scenery has been described according to their different living eras. the assumption which helps us to find the answer to this question is that imra’ ul-qa...

The relation between nature and human considers different periods. At first it was bio-utilization which degrades the value of nature as a source of energy and material. After revolution in science development and attention to the damages which they made to environment, they tried to change their look to this issue and expand the mean of relation between human and nature. Birth of such word l...

Since their discovery by Mandelbrot (The Fractal Geometry of Nature, Freeman, New York, 1977), fractals have experienced considerable success in quantifying the complex structure exhibited by many natural patterns and have captured the imaginations of scientists and artists alike. With ever-widening appeal, they have been referred to both as ‘‘fingerprints of nature’’ (Nature 399 (1999) 422) an...

based on description and nature of geomorphology, the geomorphologists must be have specific tendency to form of earth crust's landforms and their transformation. but some of related specialists in iran, believe that questa have relationship to old (paleo) geology formations, and by this reason say that questa there is not in iran. whereas anothers such as the writer (author) of this articl, wi...