background a combination of the oils of sesame, hemp, wild pistachio, and walnut has been used for treatment of skin disorders, including wound burns, in some parts of kerman, iran. evaluation of this remedy in the form of a pharmaceutical formulation in animal models can pave the way for its future application in wound burn healing in humans. conclusions a new therapeutic remedy was introduced...

It has commonly been argued that certain types of mental descriptions, specifically those characterized in terms of propositional attitudes, are part of a folk psychological understanding of the mind. Recently, however, it has also been argued that this is the case even when such descriptions are employed as part of scientific theories in domains like social psychology and comparative psycholog...

After studying the differences between culturally successful and unsuccessful folk tales, Norenzayan et al. (2006) recently postulated that culturally successful folk tales share a structure. In particular, they argued that having two or three minimally counterintuitive concepts made a story more memorable which in turn gave it transmission advantages allowing it to become widespread. This pape...

The paper presents our considerations related to the creation of a digital corpus of Bulgarian dialects. The dialectological archive of Bulgarian language consists of more than 250 audio tapes. All tapes were recordedbetween 1955 and 1965 in the course of regular dialectological expeditions throughout the country. The recordstypically contain interviews with inhabitants of small village...

If, as I will try to illustrate in this paper, much of the conceptual raw material for our understanding of the world comes from language, then what we know as “nature” (what, that is, natural scientists, including folk scientists, invest their energies in investigating) turns out to be—or at least starts out as—a disguise for “culture.” Specifically, important aspects of the natural world are ...