The mucus layer plays an important role as an intermediate for the protection of the gut against acidic chyme, digestive enzymes, and pathogens; in addition, it acts as a lubricant and facilitator of nutrient transportation. Phytogenic compounds seem to promote intestinal mucus production. OBJECTIVES: The current study was conducted to investigate the effects of low and high levels of energy an...

While Foucault referred to Benjamin just once in his entire corpus, scholars have long noticed affinities between the two thinkers, mainly their conceptions of history: emphasis on discontinuity, historiographical practices, and role archives work. This essay focuses, rather, practice critique and, more specifically, conception relation this exercise or askesis. I examine askesis as a self-tran...

The subject of the article is to present post-Tridentine community Norbertine nuns Zwierzyniec in Cracow, characterized by a spiritual bond based on common values, beliefs, ideals, and goals. It argued that internal life this was determined rules constitutions, defining tasks areas specific activity, adapted requirements force after Council Trent. Attention focused intra-Community relations exp...

The monastic tradition has its roots in the New Testament practices of withdrawing into desert, following a celibate lifestyle and disciplines fasting. After empire became Christian 4th century these ascetic evolved communities. While took various forms, they developed shared literature, gained recognised place church, while taking different ways life settings church. Western Eastern traditions...

Focusing on three historical examples of a different understanding Christian identity, the paper seeks to address role contemporary concepts sex and gender in creation identity. In first case study, focused literary representations martyrdom from second third centuries, special emphasis is placed demand for ?manly? or ?masculine? way witnessing faith. The example relates wider ascetic movement ...

Unsteady oscillatory flow of generalized Burgers’ fluid in a circular channel tube in the porous medium is investigated under the influence of time-dependent trapezoidal pressure gradient given by an infinite Fourier series. An exact analytical expression for the solution for the fluid velocity and the shear stress are recovered by using the similarity arguments together with the integral trans...

BACKGROUND Recently, proteins and peptides have become an added value to foodstuffs due to new knowledge about its structural analyses as related to antioxidant and anticancer activity. Our goal was to evaluate if protein fractions from cacao seeds show antitumor activity on lymphoma murine L5178Y model. The antioxidant activity of these fractions was also evaluated with the aim of finding a co...

abul’at?hieh, a distinguished poet and the innovator of the technique of ascetic poetry in abbasid era, was obviously and markedly under the influence of the holy qur’an and made an extensive use of quranic rhetorical devices and figures of speech in his poems. the influence of the qur’an on abul’at?hieh is in all lexical, collocational, musical, rhetorical and thematic areas. however, those fi...

Do human beings act morally because they obey socially defined rules and norms as the result of a routine of inculcated behaviors, or an embodied fear of sanction, or perhaps both? Conversely, do they act morally because they decide to do so as a consequence of a rational evaluation, or transformative endeavor, or inseparably both? In other words, do they follow a Kantian ethics of duty or an A...