Wolf children. The wild boy of Aveyron

The wild boy of Aveyron

Autism: Few Answers for a Baffling Disease

The chifdren are highly unresponsive. Many handle language badly at best; others do not talk at all. They spend their days lost in apparent daydreams, spinning objects and flapping their hands in front of their faces. They do not come when called. They do not cuddle up to their mothers; often they do not seem to even know their mothers. Four or five of every 10,004) children worldwide is one of...

Surgical repair of distal femoral fracture in a wild gray wolf (Canis lupus)

A 3-year-old wild gray wolf was referred to the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences of ShirazUniversity with a history of car accident. The radiographic examination showed supracondylar distal femoralfracture in right leg. The wolf was pre-medicated by acepromazine followed by induction of anesthesia usinga combination of diazepam and ketamine. Anesthesia was maintained by halothane. The...

Prevalence of Temporomandibular Joint Disorders in 9–12–Year–Old Boy Students in Kerman, Southeast of Iran

Despite numerous studies on the prevalence of temporomandibular joint disorders (TMJDs) in adults, those performed in children are limited. This study determined the prevalence of TMJDs in 9-12-year-old Kermanian boy students living in Southeast of Iran. 240 boy students selected by randomized method and studied through a descriptive cross-sectional epidemiologic survey including interviews and...

Double Colonisation of Palestine in Sahar Khalifeh’s Wild Thorns

“Wild thorns” is a novel written by the Palestinian novelist Sahar Khalifeh; it focuses on the colonisation of Palestine from a feminist point of view. She considers the Israeli colonisation as a patriarchy. This paper aims at investigating two types of colonization that have been represented in the form of patriarchy in the novel. The investigation of the issue of Palestine from a feminist poi...