Background: Dry eye disease is a multifactorial disease whose pathogenic mechanisms have not been investigated rigorously. The objective of this study was to evaluate the utility of Prosthetic Replacement of the Ocular Surface Ecosystem (PROSE) treatment in the management of patients with intrinsic evaporative dry eye refractory to conventional therapies. Design: A retrospective clinical cohort...

the writers of the present article have tried to explain the origin and the meanings of the word a’jam. to achieve this purpose, the authors have consulted different persian and arabic dictionaries as well as different works of prose and poetry. the writers also tried to prove the suggestion that says this word is originally persian and is derived from the name of jamshid (the mythical king of ...

Contemporary poetry appears in a diverse range of forms and medial constellations: in spoken word events live on stage, on audio CDs – spoken by the poets themselves or by professional speakers, at times accompanied by music or beats –, in YouTube videos, as entertaining ‘poetry clips,’ as artistic poetry films in art installations in museums, public spaces or the cinema. Finally, there is a wi...

BACKGROUND Arts based approaches have been used in health education in various ways e.g. to develop emotional awareness, reduce anxiety and stress and assess communication skills. OBJECTIVES This evaluation aimed to explore the use of poetry writing as a way for undergraduate nursing students to consider their feelings about important practice issues. METHODS 42 first year undergraduate nur...

The role of the humanities (eg, philosophy, bioethics, literature, music, theater, religion, anthropology) in medical education has been argued long and hard for decades. It is argued that the study of subjects included in the humanities can enhance critical thinking skills, foster a deeper level of learning and understanding, and help to enhance one's level of compassion, empathy, and moral/et...

This contribution surveys the range of images weeping in Old English literature, concentrating particularly on due to suffering, grief and unhappiness, tears compunction, but examining other types as well, including supplicatory sympathetic (these latter are found prose not poetry). Taking account contemporary theory, study understands be a physical manifestation distress, also function social ...

Poetry like other literary genres exists to be enjoyed and appreciated. The difficult task facing any instructor is to develop this sense of appreciation and enjoyment in students who are not interested in poetry. For a long time, literature in general and poetry in particular, was purged from the teaching programmes on the ground that it made no contribution to learning a foreign language for ...

This article focuses on Beki Luiza Bahar, the first published Turkish-Jewish woman playwright. Her oeuvre includes prose, poetry, memoir and a wide spectrum of fictional non-fictional works. To better grasp author’s writing praxis prove how merging fiction, biography, autobiography allows her to manage contradictory elements identity, study uses an inter-textual approach relying both works by a...

Directed toward the novice, Helen Owton’s (2017) book, Doing Poetic Inquiry, introduces reader to poetry as an approach research that allows one enter into a phenomenological space of relational experience and understanding. Striving accessibility, she captures tensions exists within qualitative by offering guide is both personal methodologically orientated. Across this review, I blend found wi...

Aligning Anna Mendelssohn with the nineteenth-century, feminised genre of floral poetry, this essay traces Mendelssohn’s demarcations tulips from 1974 to 1995. Through a series close readings tropes, identifies early preoccupations that contribute her great poem, “Silk and Wild Tulips”, first published in For Mendelssohn, flowers stand for an inarticulable, idealised form communication, thinkin...