dopamine (da) is one of the main catecholamines in the brain and is crucial for movement coordination, endocrine function, reward, mood, memory and emotions. the dopaminergic system is the primary therapeutic target in the treatment of parkinson’s disease (pd), drug addiction and schizophrenia. notwithstanding, dysfunction of central dopaminergic neurotransmission has also been associated to de...

The purpose of this study was to explore whether film-based Dynamic Assessment (DA) could affect English writing of Iranian deaf children. Ten students studying in a school for the deaf took part in the study. The participants’ writing ability was measured prior to the treatment and the errors which were identified. A series of meditating activities were designed and implemented during a three-...

The paper aims to unfold the «internal» content of Gettier’s argument as a skeptical against knowledge in terms answering question: «why he could be right when says what says». Our initial hypothesis is that E. Gettier does not say anything about «accidentality fact Smith has 10 coins his pocket», but uses words «entailment» and «deduction», which substantiates «truth conclusion», on basis attr...

THE Tractato utilissimo circa la conservatione de la sanitade is described by D. P. Lockwood1 as 'one of the earliest Italian medical works in the vernacular' to which 'Ugo now owes his chief distinction in the history of medicine'. No manuscript of this treatise exists, it was not mentioned in the Latin Vita Ugonis written about 1441 by his eldest son Soccino Benzi (1406-79), also a physician,...

Medicinal and dietary substances have been used for various purposes including nutritional from time immemorial. Various activities such as immunomodulator, bulk promoting, nutritional, etc. that enhance strength, immunity, bulk of the body resulted by the use of medicinal or dietary substances are termed in total as Balya in Ayurveda. The term Balya originally stands for all those actions that...

The subject of this paper is the story of an ancient medical instrument. This instrument is a wooden vaginal speculum used in classical and Islamic medicine. Its drawings can be found in Abulcasis al-Zahrawi's and Şerefeddin Sabuncuoğlu's illustrated books of surgery.

Detecting the location entities mentioned in Twitter messages is useful in text mining for business, marketing or defence applications. Therefore, techniques for extracting the location entities from the Twitter textual content are needed. In this work, we approach this task in a similar manner to the Named Entity Recognition (NER) task focused only on locations, but we address a deeper task: c...