While hiking in the Swiss Alps, Prof T Pexieder tragically lost his life on October 28th, 1995. Tomas Pexieder was born in Prague on the 6.6. 1941, where he undertook his undergraduate studie~ and received his M. D. in 1965 from Charles Universil y. During his last 3 years at medical school, he also dedicated himself to research at the Institute of Anatomy and published his first paper on adipo...

A picture of a doctor doing rounds in the countryside seems very distant from science, and yet even with all the achievements of biomedicine, the image of a doctor seeing a patient remains a very powerful symbol. It represents seminal interface at which medical science is adjusted to the individual’s needs. For centuries, medicine has been seen as both science and art. In the technological era,...

Pre-Confucian China Although there is evidence of advanced civilization in China in very ancient times, actual recorded history begins with the Shang dynasty, in the fourteenth century B.C.E. Available evidence indicates that this was an advanced civilization. For example, art from this period is quite sophisticated, even according to modern standards. This dynasty ended with the invasion by mo...

В. Астафьев в автобиографической книге «Последний поклон» художественно осмысляет тему детства, что уже было отмечено исследователями. Однако литературоведы, как правило, концентрируются на анализе образа центрального персонажа. На наш взгляд, представления писателя о детстве проявляются и через образы второстепенных персонажей-детей, отношения с которыми раскрывают своеобразие автобиографическ...

this article is an attempt to analyze the interaction of heroic morals and the logic of everyday life through the perspective of sociology of cinema. in other words, the author is aimed to study the interaction of heroic morals and the logic of everyday life as represented and narrated by cinema. the case under study is the movies of masud kimiai. theoretically, a combination of jean duvignaud ...

iran central plateau is considered to be historically important due to the remained religious, historical, and cultural locations survived from ages ago. abarkuh, as one of the towns in yazd province, and the one which is 140 kilometers far from the center of the province, is considered to be historically important. moreover, this city is geographically related to esfahan and shiraz. since this...

Takashi Murakami’s notion of ‘superflat’ art has specific roots in the western-influenced woodblock prints of nineteenth-century Edo and contemporary applications in the popular culture media of manga and anime. As applied to architecture, ‘superflatness’ is suggestive of a sensibility that derives its aesthetic qualities from a mixture of Japanese traditions and western architectural lineages....

The goal of this Research Topic was to bring together diverse scientific perspectives on lateralized brain mechanisms underlying emotion, motivation, and memory. The Topic resulted in eight articles, three of which report original research and five of which review and synthesize past research with the aim of developing new hypotheses and theory. A range of international experts with diverse bac...

We examined the entire network of creative artists that made Broadway musicals, in the post-War period, a collaboration network of international acclaim and influence, with an eye to investigating how the network’s structural features condition the relationship between individual artistic talent and the success of their musicals. Our findings show that some of the evolving topographical qualiti...

This paper will discuss key issues which arose during the creation of Sensuous Geographies, a multi-user interactive/responsive installation created in 2003/4. In particular it will refer to the way in which the design of the installation was intended to draw attention to bodily sensation, facilitate collaborative interactivity between participants and bring about an emergent choreography, and ...