While African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) mothers living with HIV in Canada are required to follow public health guidelines by exclusively formula feeding their infants, they also face cultural expectations from peers family members breastfeed. They multiple challenges because of race, ethnicity, gender, class, geographical location, among other factors. Previously published studies on this sub...

Abstract Authenticity, or being true to oneself, relies on integrating autobiographical memories into a coherent life-story. These serve three adaptive functions: self-identity, social connection and directing behaviour in the future. But little is known about how memory subjective sense of authenticity interact. Using between-subjects experimental design, we compared authentic inauthentic mome...

The present study sought to explore the impact of story maps and audio podcasts as scaffolds on oral proficiency of Iranian EFL learners. The quasi-experimental study was launched with 36 EFL undergraduates in three groups by adopting a counterbalanced 3  3 Latin squared design. All participants were indiscriminately, but in a specified order, exposed to the three treatment conditions of story ...

The development of a multi-method for the detection of seven allergens based on liquid chromatography and triple-quadrupole tandem mass spectrometry in multiple reaction mode is presented. It is based on extraction of the allergenic proteins from a food matrix, followed by enzymatic digestion with trypsin. The chosen marker peptides were implemented into one method that is capable of the simult...

the present paper aims at clarifying the role of the concept “walåyah” in the philosophy of the unity of being in islamic philosophy (waedat al-wujid). the concept “walåyah” is deeply built into the philosophic system of the islamic theory of being, and moreover the dynamic aspect of this concept has always activated islamic philosophy of existence and stimulated the thought of islamic philosop...

Frits Rosendaal comments on new findings from a meta-analysis conducted by Kazem Rahimi and colleagues, evaluating whether statins can prevent venous thromboembolism.

Consideration of the relationship between Aristotle’s and Sigmund Freud’s catharsis theories is significant to revise its efficacy in literature. The view that concept literature represents a process purification clearing, which all repressed emotions, desires, anguish come surface and, this way, they are eliminated from psyche. This study establishes recursive theory Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, Re...

A method for automatic plot analysis of narrative texts that uses components of both traditional symbolic analysis of natural language and statistical machine-learning is presented for the story rewriting task. In the story rewriting task, an exemplar story is read to the pupils and the pupils rewrite the story in their own words. This allows them to practice language skills such as spelling, d...