Amani was a 24-year-old woman in her second year of nursing school in Jerusalem. She lived with her extended family, including her parents, grandparents, and six older brothers, who had emigrated from Syria more than 10 years earlier. They are religious Muslim Arabs who lived in an Arab village not far from our cancer center in Jerusalem. For more than a year, Amani had experienced symptoms of ...

This paper investigates the identity implications of silence about genocide in commemorations of American Thanksgiving. In Study 1 we assessed the co-occurrence of national glorification themes with different forms of silence in commemoration products by conducting a content analysis of presidential Thanksgiving proclamations. In Study 2 we examined the extent to which different commemoration p...

BACKGROUND The high lipid solubility that permits rapid transfer across the blood-brain barrier makes propofol attractive for intracarotid injection. The authors hypothesized that intracarotid injection produces electrocerebral silence at a fraction of the intravenous dose and with less adverse systemic and cerebrovascular side effects. METHODS The authors compared the systemic and cerebrovas...

We analyze gazes during silence in multi-party conversation and compare them between conversations among nativelanguage speakers and those among second-language speakers. The duration of gaze during silence shows a significant difference between these two conditions: Gaze during silence is longer in a second-language conversation. Correlation analyses for gazes during silence and the values fro...

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necessary for mental and physical health of citizens and members of urban society- especially metropolitans- is to enjoy favorite, interesting and beautiful spaces. undoubtedly, in metropolitans like isfahan and ahwaz which lack of useful and available urban lands makes the development of such spaces limited, riversides could perform such a role because of different humanistic and natural reaso...