the prevalence of atopic dermatitis (ad) and obesity have been increasing considerably in korean school-children. ad is a chronic pruritic recurrent inflammatory skin disorder. leptin is secreted by adipocytes which has been suggested to be immunologically active; however, their role in ad has not yet been well understood. a total of 227 subjects out of 2,109 elementary school children were def...

In the West, Translation Studies as a discipline has a very short but lively history. Founded in the early 1970s in the Low Countries—Holland and Belgium—translation studies is a fairly new field. Yet, today some theorists suggest that the discipline is too limited to translated texts and excludes much translation data being generated from other fields of inquiry, including theater, art, archit...

Abstract Based on published and hitherto unpublished papal letters, this paper reconstructs the fascinating story of Abbot Germanos St George Mangana, one wealthiest Greek monasteries in Latin-ruled Cyprus. Beginning with an updated exposition monastery’s Byzantine origins Constantinopolitan ties, continues Germanos’ appeals to Pope John XXII (1316-1334) concerning settling a dispute between hi...

The most famous epistemic paradox is Fitch’s paradox. In it, Frederic Fitch offered a counterexample to the Principle of Knowability (PK), namely, that any true proposition can be known. His example is the proposition that some proposition is true but not known. This proposition is not paradoxical or contradictory in itself, but contradicts (PK), which many have found appealing. What is really ...