There was a time when waiters would try to shoo away the cheeky house sparrows (Passer domesticus) that flit around European sidewalk cafés in search of crumbs. Where I live, at least, they now seem have given up: outnumbered, outmaneuvered, and with any scant success reversed by patrons who toss birds tidbits. It's dynamic holds mirror our love–hate relationship these little creatures (Figure ...

This paper examines the ways in which Palestinian suffering from the 1948 Nakba and the ‘ongoing Nakba’ has been silenced. Silencing has taken multiple forms in different historical moments, from the description of Palestinians as ‘non-Jews’ in the Balfour Declaration, to under-reporting of Palestinian losses in 1948, to exclusion from academic studies of trauma and genocide, to the absence of ...

This article verifies how Bryan Bertino’s 2008 film The Strangers articulates the slasher formula (CLOVER, 2015; DIKA, 1985) in order to tell a horror story that is tune with cultural context from first decade of 2000s United States. Drawing analyses impact terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001, we point out evolutions convention, including dissidence films made be deeply self-referential a...

An important goal of the GOLD initiative is to counter the nihilistic attitude and to promote a proactive engagement of physicians and allied healthcare professionals with COPD patients over time [2]. In addition, GOLD, and also other guidelines, recommend regular surveillance of patients’ respiratory health status [1, 3–19]. The rationale behind the regular follow-up of patients with chronic c...