background: due to increasing life expectancy and declining fertility rates, the population over the age of 60 in developed and developing countries is increasing. this matter draws attention toward the improvement of the health of the elderly and consideration of the health and treatment needs of this important group of human society. the aim of this study was to determine the effects of integ...

purpose: to evaluate the health-related quality of life (hrqol) among strabismus patient. methods: one hundred and twenty-two strabismic patients ≥ 14 years who scheduled for surgery were selected non-randomly. the patients completed the adult strabismus 20 (as-20) and sf 36 questionnaires. measurements were performed preoperatively and 3 and 6 months postoperatively. changes in psychosocial an...

conclusions based on the results of the present study and other performed studies in this regard, menopause, aging, vasomotor symptoms, and education had significant association with the qol of postmenopausal women. the reduced qol in postmenopausal women could eventually lead to the reduced qol of their spouses. therefore, it is necessary to plan for the education of these women and their husb...

The article examines the specifics of reflecting history and artistic practice Lianozovo non-conformist group in G. Saphir's poetic cycles «The End Beginning» New Lianozovo». peculiarities deployment memoir component, fragments biographies association's participants autobiographical material are determined.To reconstruct elements creative strategies underground representatives–artists writers S...

This paper proposes an approach to capture the pragmatic context needed to infer irony in tweets. We aim to test the validity of two main hypotheses: (1) the presence of negations, as an internal propriety of an utterance, can help to detect the disparity between the literal and the intended meaning of an utterance, (2) a tweet containing an asserted fact of the form Not(P1) is ironic if and on...

array of scientific evidence in his conceptualization, for example, a correlation of .62 between cranial capacity and distance from the equator with 20,000 crania representing 122 ethnically distinguishable populations (Beals, Smith, & Dodd, 1984). Templer and Arikawa (2003) reported a correlation of .71 between mean IQ and mean high winter temperature and a correlation of .61 between mean IQ a...