1- introduction despite a lot of plans for rural and remote areas in recent years, many of iran’s local community's health and medical needs are not enough supplied, yet. residents of rural and remote community’s situations show that health care services are weaker than urban centers and health and medical indexes in indigenous communities remain unacceptable. many rural and remote communities ...

I read with interest 2 excellent articles in the December issue of American Journal Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics; that is, a Guest Editorial by Dr Ernst M. Taeger1Taeger E.M. An argument for healthy skepticism orthodontics.Am J Orthod Orthop. 2020; 158: 775-776Abstract Full Text PDF Scopus (1) Google Scholar (“An orthodontics”) Letter to Editor David W. Chambers2Chambers D.W. Shifts...

Tens of thousands of women were coercively sterilized in Czechoslovakia and its successor states. Romani women were particularly targeted for these measures. These practices stopped only in 2004, as a result of international pressure. Although some measures have been taken to ensure that these practices are not repeated, to date neither the Czech Republic nor Slovakia have completed the work of...

geographical relations and land areas. This projection is based on a very basic kinesthetic image-schematic structure. An image schema is a simple structure which is ingrained in everyday human bodily experience and becomes meaningful precisely due to its embodiment. In our example, the kinesthetic image-schematic structure is the Mikołaj Domaradzki 46 container schema: since many a thing can b...

author and an indeterminate biographical context. The same cannot be said of Mateo Alemán or of Francisco de Quevedo, in the 20.1 (2000) Imitation and the Growth of the Novel 103 case of La vida del buscón (translated by Alpert as The Swindler). Alemán and Quevedo—each in his own way—become rivals of their narrator/protagonists, by putting words into their mouths and by writing misfortune into ...

A treatment model for the psychological sequelae of discrimination is illustrated via three treatment cases in which experiences of racism, gender and/or ethnic/religious hostility were a primary focus of intervention. The client’s level of psychological functioning, acuity of hate victimization, coping and identity re-formation strategies are addressed in this phase-oriented model of counselin...

This article debates the merits of fairy tale interpretive frameworks that privilege the psychological and symbolic, versus those that utilize a literal and feminist orientation. Using ATU 510B as a test case, for its intriguing blend of real-world elements and the fantastic, the author suggests that a synthesis of literal and symbolic theories allows for the fullest understanding of the polyva...