OBJECTIVE To identify the effect of music intervention on cognitive function and depression status of residents in senior citizen apartments based on the existing evidence regarding music therapy. METHODS An experimental study was conducted from November 2008 to December 2009. Sixty healthy senior apartment residents over 65 years of age were recruited and separated into two groups. According...

and lines of rhymed prose make it his longest work. *Ḥanukka-nāma (The Book of Hanukah), his other long narrative, is an account of the Maccabees’ successful military campaign against the Seleucid dynasty in the second century B.C.E. The extant manuscript copies are incomplete; in the introduction, however, Ben Samuel expresses his desire to continue in the tradition, begun by *Shāhīn in the fo...

practices, then in medicine and textile industry, and over the last few decades they have become the world’s most popular and widespread drug drug. The history of cannabis consumption goes back several thousand years when it originated in Asia. The first references to cannabis can be found in Chinese and Indian writings such as Vedian hymns and Indian religious songs, dated back to the first mi...

This paper explores the origins of the Nataraja cult in the state of Tamil Nadu in southern India. The trajectory of the dancing Shiva is traced: from the processional worship of metal icons outside the sanctum to the cultic elevation of the Nataraja bronze into the sanctum at Chidambaram. Archaeometallurgical, iconographic and literary evidence discussed shows that the Nataraja bronze, depicti...

today, the literary critics divids poetry into four main kinds. they are epic, dramatic, lyric, or didactic poetry. in order to determine the literary genre of a hymn, its definition should be considered. it is a sort of poetry containing silent prayers, the statements of being needy and impotent, etc. praising the greatness of god. it is also performed in the purity of heart and the tenderness...

amonhotep iv, one of egypt's most famous pharaohs, has been composer of hymns in praise of the sun or sun god, which remains in inscriptions from fourteenth century bc. amonhoteb stone inscription is the oldest document in which, at the first time, he has invited people to monotheism. mehr yasht is second long yasht, in praise of sun, mehr or sun god, remains from one thousand years bc. th...

the gathas, consisted of seventeen hymns, are the oldest literary work in iran. these hymns are composed in a syllabic meter and poetical language. in recent centuries, many scholarshave studied the gathas andhave consideredtheir poetic features. some scholars have tried to reveal gathas’ poetic technique on the bases of intertextual evidence, and have compared them with rig-veda. in this artic...