A year of transformation comes to its end

A historical landmark study comes to its end.

In this issue of European Urology, Popiolek and co-authors [1] present the final analysis of a historic landmark study initiated by Johansson et al. [2]. Between 1977 and 1984, 223 patients were diagnosed with organ-confined prostate cancer (PCa) for which they did not receive immediate treatment. In 106 of these patients, so-called clinically occult PCa was diagnosed by histopathology from tra...

the aesthetic dimension of howard barkers art: a frankfurtian approach to scenes from an execution and no end of blame

رابطه ی میانِ هنر و شرایطِ اجتماعیِ زایش آن همواره در طولِ تاریخ دغدغه ی ذهنی و دل مشغولیِ اساسیِ منتقدان و نیز هنرمندان بوده است. از آنجا که هنر در قفس آهنیِ زندگیِ اجتماعی محبوس است، گسترش وابستگیِ آن با نهاد ها و اصولِ اجتماعی پیرامون، صرفِ نظر از هم سو بودن و یا غیرِ هم سو بودنِ آن نهاد ها، امری اجتناب ناپذیر به نظر می رسد. با این وجود پدیدار گشتنِ چنین مباحثِ حائز اهمییتی در میان منتقدین، با ظهورِ مکتب ما...

Epithelial Morphogenesis: Netrin Comes to a Sticky and Terminal End

Netrin and its receptor Neogenin are thought to be regulators of axonal guidance in the nervous system. A recent report suggests they also play a role in epithelial morphogenesis.

Christmas comes but once a year.

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...