irony is a mysterious communicative language between writer and reader and among its beauties, brevity and oddity and duality of meaning can be referred to. so it is considered as one of the best means of interpretation in an indirect way to reform society. this article elaborates on irony in terms of language and terminology with emphasis on the most important available works in this area. the...

there is no doubt that colors are important factors in creating arts including poetry. the poets use them because of their visual beauties to show their hidden values. sometimes they go further – beyond the external features – ad use colors as symbols to express their own meaning. moreover, modern poet’s deep insight and vision are the main causes to change the colorful portrait to a bright won...

Synchronic chain shifts, whereby certain sounds are promoted (or demoted) stepwise along some phonetic scale in some context, are one of the classic cases of opaque rule interactions (see, e.g., Kenstowicz and Kisseberth 1977). If, for example, /a/ raises to [e], and /e/ raises to [i], it would appear that the /e/ ® [i] raising must precede /a/ ® [e] raising in the derivation, otherwise /a/ and...

Copyright © 2011 American Heart Association. All rights reserved. Print ISSN: 0009-7322. Online 72514 Circulation is published by the American Heart Association. 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX DOI: 10.1161/CIR.0b013e31821b1f10 published online May 2, 2011; Circulation and Council on Cardiovascular Radiology and Intervention the Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young, Council on Clin...

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Chen et al., “Expression of Multiple Neuregulin Transcripts in Postnatal Rat Brains” J. Comp. Neurol. 349: 389-400, 1994. Corfas et al., “Differential Expression of ARIA Isoforms in the Rat Brain” Neuron 14: 103-115, 1995. Falls et al., “ARIA, a Protein That Stimulates Acetylcholine Receptor Synthesis, Is a Member of the Neu Ligand Family” Cell 72: 801-815, 1993. Higashiyama et al., “A novel br...

Timothy A. Sanborn, MD, MS, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI, Chair* James E. Tcheng, MD, FACC, FSCAI, Vice-Chair* H. Vernon Anderson, MD, FACC, FSCAI* Michael J. Landzberg, MD, FACC** Charles E. Chambers, MD, FACC, FSCAI† Marco A. Martinez-Rios, MD, FACC, FIACC, FSCAI†† Sharon L. Cheatham, PhD, APRN‡ Lisa A. Riggs, CNS‡‡ Matthew V. DeCaro, MD, FACC Kui Hian Sim, MBBS, FACC§§ Jeremy C. Durack, MD§ David J. Sl...