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    Langevin diffusion in holographic backgrounds with hyperscaling violation

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    In this note we consider a relativistic heavy quark which moves in the quark-gluon plasmas. By using the holographic methods, we analyze the Langevin diffusion process of this relativistic heavy quark. This heavy quark is described by a trailing string attached to a flavor brane and moving at constant velocity. The fluctuations of this string are related to the thermal correlators and the correlation functions are precisely the kinds of objects that we compute in the gravity dual picture. We obtain the action of the trailing string in hyperscaling violation backgrounds and we then find the equations of motion. These equations lead us to construct the Langevin correlator which helps us to obtain the Langevin constants. Using the Langevin correlators we derive the densities spectral and simple analytic expressions in the small and large frequency limits. We examine our works for planar and RR-charged black holes with hyperscaling violation and find new constraints on θ\theta in the presence of velocity vv

    COMPARISON OF PET LEP AND TRADITIONAL MENTAL IMAGERY METHODS IN THE PERFORMANCE OF FOOTBALL GOALKEEPERS

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    Mental imagery has long been the focus of researchers in sports psychology and motor learning. The purpose of this study is to compare Pet Lep and traditional mental imagery methods in the performance of football goalkeepers. For this purpose, 30 (13 males and 17 females) male and female goalkeepers aged 18 to 30 years were selected as a statistical sample using random cluster sampling. Subjects were divided into three groups and underwent specific exercises. The program of the first group consisted of practical exercises with mental imagery using the Pet Lep method, the second group consisted of practical exercises with mental imagery using the traditional method, and the third group consisted of practical exercises. Then, in the seventh, fourteenth, twenty-first and twenty-eighth sessions, all subjects were given a standard ball test and their learning progress was measured. The collected data were then statistically analyzed by one-factor analysis of variance test and Tukey test. Research findings showed that there is a significant difference in the level of learning the ball skill between Pet Lep mental imagery group and traditional illustration group and traditional illustration group and control group in all three stages of training. Also, a significant difference was observed in the retention of ball skills after one week of training between the Pet Lep mental imaging group and the traditional and control mental imaging groups. Finally, it is suggested that sports coaches and trainers use the Pet Lep imaging method in appropriate situations.  Article visualizations

    God as Sovereign; Sovereign as God: An Archaeology of the Iranian Constitution

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    The following sections are included: Introduction The Constitution of 1979 The Principle of the Velayat-e Faqih: Article 5 The Roman Effect: The Prince Is Not Bound by the Laws Conclusion Reference

    The Age of Counter-revolution: States and Revolutions in the Middle East

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    The Politics of Recognition: The Barefoot of the Revolution and Elusive Memories

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    The victory of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the presidential election of 2005 came as a shock to many segments of Iranian society, particularly the reformists within the Islamic Republic who believed they had pushed aside such arch-conservatives for good. Ahmadinejad prevailed thanks to the massive participation of the urban poor in the election, along with the decision of the majority of the middle and upper classes to boycott the vote with no thought that their abstention would have such a consequence. Whereas conservatives boasted that Ahmadinejad’s triumph proved the allegiance of “the people” to the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the reformists explained their failure in an entirely apolitical way. They said that Ahmadinejad won due to economic populism, which, for them, meant that the Iranian majority is culturally unready for democracy

    Vali-e Faqih and his Female Subjects: Women in the Iranian Constitution

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    The 1979 Constitution of the Islamic Republic, which came about after the revolution, abolished many of women’s citizenship rights and reduced them to second-class citizens. How did this happen? What is the role of the Iranian Constitution in restricting women’s rights? How are women and gender defined and redefined by the Constitution? What is the role of the concept of velayat (guardianship) in reducing women to feeble creatures, who are unable to manage their own affairs? Analysing key articles of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic, this paper explores women’s citizenship rights in the shadow of the concept of the velayat. It is an attempt to investigate the legal structure of the Constitution of Iran and its implications for women. The paper argues that velayat, and for that matter the velayat-e faqih, is a gendered concept, in two senses. First, it considers women as feeble creatures who are to be ruled by a male guardian; second, it feminises the nation and degrades its status as an agentless creature that is to be ruled and dominated by a male guardian/ruler (vali-e faqih). Whereas people in general are regarded as feeble in this framework, it degrades women’s status even further. This article also demonstrates the limits of constitutionalism and argues that understanding women’s constitutional rights and the situation of women in the Islamic Republic is inseparable from the epistemological and political pre-texts, which define and redefine women as intellectually deficient feeble subjects

    The Green Movement: A Struggle against Islamic Patriarchy

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    Women, Power and Resistance in post-revolutionary Iran [in Farsi]

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    Publications of International Solidarity Network Laws Muslim Under Living Women (Women and Laws in Societies) Muslim) tries to provide information about the life, struggle and strategies of women in different Muslim countries and societies To provide equal rights. Publication of Laws Muslim Under Living Women Muslim Communities makes information and experiences of the growing women's movement accessible to a wide range of readers to make known to others the strategies and initiatives that have helped promote the independence of women at the global level
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