The writing of Iranian architectural history has, from its start, followed the principles of western historiography. Portions of this history are well expected to be neglected or unattended when writing of it takes place outside its intellectual framework that essentially reflects the Iranian throught world. To have a truly Iranian architectural historiography, one has to find the theoretical p...

OBJECTIVE To describe the cause of death together with emergency department presentations and hospital admissions in the last year of life of people with intellectual disability. METHOD A retrospective matched cohort study using de-identified linked data of people aged 20 years or over, with and without intellectual disability who died during 2009 to 2013 in Western Australia. Emergency depar...

The past 25 years have seen a rapid growth of knowledge about brain mechanisms involved in visual mental imagery. These advances have largely been made independently of the long history of philosophical - and even psychological - reckoning with imagery and its parent concept 'imagination'. We suggest that the view from these empirical findings can be widened by an appreciation of imagination's ...

tawfiq al-hakim is one of the proficient authors in history of egypt’s literature. he has so much worked inliterature, intellectual and cultural concepts. he was a craftsman author .it can say that he is dramatistic literature’s father of egypt and arab and one of the founders of the dramatic art, novel and short story in contemporary literature. tawfiq al-hakim had special attention to human a...

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In the history of biology, Constantine Rafinesque (1783-1840) and Charles Darwin (1809.1882) represent what are probably polar opposites among 19th century naturalists. Both were true intellectual geniuses, exceptionally broad in their knowledge and interests; both wrote prolifically; both took their initial inspiration from the science of taxonomy — the naming and cataloging of biological dive...

A 39-year-old man with a history of rupture of a sinus of Valsalva aneurysm experienced an ischemic stroke. Although the patient presented left-sided hemiparesis for a week, no abnormal signals were indicated on diffusion-weighted imaging with repeated magnetic resonance scans. Carotid ultrasound and cerebral angiography were conducted, and they revealed hypoplasty of the left internal carotid ...

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Systems confer numerous advantages to corporations including superior data management, streamlining of office workflows and potential costs savings. However, a content analysis of ECM system technical white papers reveals that such systems are potentially disastrous to intellectual workers. The trends of increasing management control, routinization and deskil...

Background It was predicted that offenders with intellectual disabilities categorised according to Ward & Hudson’s (1998b) self-regulation theory as having an Approach goal, as compared to those with an Avoidant goal, would have higher levels of distorted cognitions, less victim empathy, and a history of more prolific offending. Offenders categorised as having a Passive strategy, as compared to...

This paper's central concern is with signs of fascism in recent political developments in a number of European countries and the United States. It takes the reader back to earlier periods in European and American history when this same anguished question was raised. Thus a longer intellectual history of concerns about the viability of democratic systems is drawn to guide us in our current polit...