haft-peykar (or bahram-nameh) is the fourth nizami’s verse composition in terms of time and one of his masterpieces besides his khosrow and shirin. haft-peykar consists of two general parts: the first part is about bahram and his life and the second one is about the stories of his seven wives. the structure of the book makes it possible to be criticized through a formalistic approach. the chara...

the russian formalism is an approach was introduced at the beginning of 20th century and those who offered such a theory wanted to find a scientific method in literary criticism. they believed that the literary work itself should be criticized instead of its author and the literary nature of the work should be considered as the main subject.    adopting such a method, they propelled the study o...

Certain properties of the network of departure Ns and the padding network NP of an (n + I&node resistive n-port network containing no negative conductances are established. Based on these properiies, some necessary conditions and a sufficient condition for the realizability of the Y matrices of (n + 2J-node resistive n-port nehvorks ore obtained. A new proof for the supremacy condition is given...

We raise the problem of the minorities' survival in the presence of positive network externalities. We rely on the example of thematic clubs to illustrate why and in which circumstances such survival problems might appear, …rst considering the case of simple network externalities and then the case of cross network externalities. Sonnac and Skerdilajda Zanaj for their comments and suggestions.

THEODORE J. WEIMAN On July 22, 2004, the House of Representatives passed the Marriage Protection Act of 2004, a bill that would strip the federal courts of jurisdiction over cases challenging the constitutionality of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act. Two months later, the House passed a similar bill that would curtail federal court jurisdiction for challenges to the constitutionality of the Ple...