badi’ iyaat – created as a new technique in a period of arabic literature, that is known as the decline era. the study of this technique as a form of poetry in this era, creates a cloud of doubt for naming the period. there have been many poets with thousands of great poems that reflect the prominence of this era not its decline. the writer of this article has studied badi’ iyaat in khazaanat –...

N.R. Abdulla, T.C. Loh, H. Akit, A.Q. Sazili & H.L. Foo 1 Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia 2 Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia 3 Halal Products Research Institute, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia 4 Department of Biop...

Using carbon-dioxide-baited light traps and larval sampling, anopheline mosquitoes were collected from 620 sites in northern Australia. Twelve species were recorded. Anopheles annulipes s. l. (335 sites). An. bancroftii (181 sites), An. meraukensis (162 sites), An. farauti s. s. (133 sites), An. farauti 3 (93 sites), An. amictus (93 sites), An. hilli (88 sites), An. novaguinensis (70 sites), an...

The members of the African mole-rat family Bathyergidae are widely distributed across sub-Saharan Africa. Despite their well-studied biology and reproductive physiology, the current knowledge of their ectoparasite fauna is limited and ambiguous due to recent revisions of the bathyergid taxonomy. The common mole-rat (Cryptomys hottentotus hottentotus) is 1 of the most widely distributed species ...

the supremacy of adaptation and imitation of antecedents over innovation is one of the features of arab poetry after fall of abbasid dynasty. however, literary borrowing which is deliberate and combined with tastefulness and elegance yields an appropriate effect and association on readers. technically, in rhetoric, if a poet borrows a hemistich, a verse or some verses from others' poems as...

A method is described for determining the time of hatching of blowfly larvae on a corpse with respect to temperature. Temperature is known to have a profound effect on the rate of growth of fly larvae, and it is suggested that past assumptions that the growth of larvae found in a corpse has taken place at one approximated ambient temperature may have led to large overestimates of the developmen...

The species of Kokeshia Miyamoto, 1960 from China are reviewed, K. hsiaoi Ren & Zheng, 1992 is redescribed, and ten new described. Among these species, baii sp. nov., was collected Hong Kong, the other nine, acutiformis bui caii drepanoides hilli pengae redeii renae nov. weirauchae Yunnan. Thus, number known this genus increased eight to eighteen. Photographs habitus, forewing, abdomen geni...

small amounts of native zinc have been recently identified in samples from the oxidized zones of the lead-zinc-silver deposits of the Keno Hill Galena Hill area, Yukon. Most of the zinc seen came from the oxidized lodes at the Elsa mine. The r-ray pattern of the natural mineral agrees with the data for the zinc standard as published by Swanson & Tatge (1953) of the National Bureau of Standards,...

asadabadi and motahari contened that believing in ghada and ghadar affects destiny of societies. the problem in this article is inspired by thoughts of jamal-aldin asad abadi and morteza motahari. social theories of both thinkers about ghada and ghadar are studied by comparative method. asad abadi’s theory about ghada and ghadar is more historical-experimental, during the history of before and ...