Modigliani was born in Livorno, Italy, where he grew up in a Jewish ghetto. He studied art in Florence, and in 1906 he moved to Paris, where he met Pablo Picasso and other leading artists of his era. In Paris, he was influenced by fauvism, the avant-garde art movement promoting a strong, emotional, and nonrealistic use of color, and by his friend the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi, known...

the researches have made different explanations about rhytons, but they mostly accepted that “rhyton is a kind of a drinking vessel often in the form of an animal, having two holes for pouring water.” rhytons were used in iran from forth millennium b.c. to the end of sasanian period. the animals that are used are of two different kinds: imaginary animals or the real animals. diversity of the sh...

Every day across the United States and world, health care providers demonstrate quiet humanity as they deliver patient during a pandemic. Here are just few stories that exemplify from Legacy Care, an independent medical group of physicians advanced practice who on-site for post-acute long-term care, inpatient rehabilitation, assisted living communities around nation. Molly Cage, MD, PhD, has be...

Research on characterization and classification of musical compositions have focused on several mathematical and statistical techniques. In this paper, we take a different approach based on music visualization and fractals to investigate the nature of musicality. A musical composition is defined as a sequence of notes and self-similarity plots(SSPs) are constructed on the basis of certain simil...

The young branches of the poplar trees moved lazily, wrapped in the pale blue spring, embraced by a soft breeze. How many times in those years had I stopped the car in that little grassy space and taken a shortcut which led to the courtyard at the back of the house. As usual, time seemed to stand still, allowing me to admire the shadows created by the windows which, depending on the season, wer...

Broadly speaking, the Holy Quran as the most sublime heavenly message is a book of human life. Since, the Life Creator, the sender of this holy book, is the Creator of human body and mind. Human mental activity starts from about 16 weeks of fetal life with the blow of divine spirit into the fetus. At this point, we observe the beginning of mental and psychological activities and the emergence o...

Background: WHOQOL-SRPB is an instrument developed to evaluate how spirituality, religiosity and personal beliefs (SRPB) are related to quality of life in health and health care. Recently, Moreira-Alves and Koenig (2006) questioned several aspects concerning WHOQOL-SRPB including de definition of the construct used in the instrument and the fact that its facets are too broad to be considered sp...

From advancement of mechanistic view of human body to shifting paradigm of evaluation in medicine, world has changed a lot in last two decades in terms of visualizing a person as One Whole Being. Recently many studies have evolved with a question of spirituality benefits on health. Articles largely concentrated on reduction of physical as well as mental symptoms through association with religio...

It is two years since my diagnosis and I am still no closer to finding a reason why have become so ill; an idiopathic medical anomaly. My of chronic pancreatitis occurred in the middle first coronavirus lockdown United Kingdom. was solitary experience as shuffled into distanced hospital waiting rooms, fed various machines that instructed me on when how breathe sent back flat await phone call ap...