junayd baghdadi is one of the greatest mystics and theorist of the first mystical tradition. his speeches about cognition and towhid (monotheism) are very valuable. attending to different levels of audiences, he has mentioned different stages for towhid. his remarks about towhid prove that both mystical practices and mystical vision play an important role for achieving the stage of towhid. to r...

focus of narration is the perspective on which the author or narrator looks at his story. analysis of “focus of narration” and narrative techniques get an important role to discover consistent and accurate narrative structure in fiction. the gerard genette¢s theory of “narrative focus” is one of the techniques through which one can understand the ability of an author to form and shape his work’...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the possible influence of demographic and histological risk factors on the survival of patients with esophageal and gastric cancer. OBJECTIVES Based on the available registry and follow-up information, this study compares 1-5 year survival rate of gastric and esophageal cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS Through a concurrent (prospective) cohort study, all 366 pat...

1 Thomas B. Hilburn, Embry-Riddle University, Department of Computing, Daytona Beach, FL 32114, [email protected] 2 Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle University, Department of Computing, Daytona Beach, FL 32114, [email protected] Abstract . One of the major areas of software engineering, as specified in the SoftWare Engineering Body Of Knowledge, is software quality. This paper argues that softwa...

1 Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle University, Dept. of Computing and Mathematics, Daytona Beach, FL 32114, [email protected] Abstract --This paper describes an experiment which involved students in the undergraduate computer science senior project capstone design course, and students in the graduate software testing course. Students entering the senior project class are graduating seniors wh...

AIM The present study aimed to investigate the influence of histological factors on survival of patients with esophageal cancer. BACKGROUND Esophageal cancer is almost the common form of malignancy in the eastern world. PATIENTS AND METHODS Through a retrospective cohort study a consecutive series of 134 patients with definite diagnosis of esophageal cancer who had been hospitalized at the ...

thereis a sentence by a butcher to abusaeed in one of the stories of “asrar-al-towhid”(maqamat of sheikh abusaeed abollkheir) that contains a “regretful”combination. professor shafie kadkani believes, based on what he has written inthe appendix to the book, that the “regretful” combination denotes “ridicule”and has described it; but according to the other sources,and based on the semantic struc...

the idea of islamization of science is among the important issues of islamic countries of which ziaeddin sardar proposed a new theory. in his theory, the critique of western secularism and orientalism play a central role. he has given a definition of science in the framework of cultural tradition, and has tried to refer to the tradition of sunnah and quran, by redefining islamic fundamental ter...