The term ›regionalism‹ is en vogue, but whereas fashion normally emanates from Paris, in this case the model is probably the American slogan, »small is beautiful«. The Dictionary of the Slovene Literary Language (Slovar slovenskega knjižnega jezika) lists three meanings of ›regionalism‹: 1. political, »an attribute of a specific area or region referring to its particular economic, socio-politic...

This case report describes the variations in visual performance of a subject with moderate keratoconus with changes in front surface eccentricities (FSEs) of PROSE (Prosthetic Replacement of Ocular Surface Ecosystem). PROSE device of 0.6 FSE provided maximum visual improvement and reduction in Higher Order Aberrations (HOAs) compared to 0, 0.3 and 0.8 FSEs in this clinical condition.

Unconventional discourse in schizophrenia has been speculated to be attributable to the mixing up of symbols and signs. We illustrate how a series of scientific images, cartoons, and prose are used by a patient to weave disparate-and objectively unrelated-concepts. The resulting prose is incoherent science.

Abstract This article looks at the continuing fascination with idea of monarchy in Iran, dismissed and condemned after revolution but gradually rehabilitated through an engagement Shahnameh a reinvigorated interest ancient Iran. The Sasanian as cradle for development Islamic civilisation, has turn enabled popular re-acquaintance Achaemenid previously frowned on its association Mohammad Reza Sha...

mountains and trees have many similarities. in this way, simorgh of shahnameh shifts from the tree of vispobish to alborz mountain. if simorgh has spiritual existence in avesta, a devilish side has been added to it in shahnameh. in avesta, it lives on a tree, but in shahnameh we find him on alborz mountain. all the researches done on shahnameh and iranian mythology did not pay any attention to ...

The features of the composition of small prose by L. Ulitskaya (on the example of the stories "Bronka", "Happy", "Poor Relatives") are analyzed. Particular attention is paid to the features of picturing time in stories, to the past which is sometimes more important for understanding the motives and characters of L. Ulitskaya’s heroes than the present and even...

The mathematical distinction between prose and verse may be detected in writings that are not apparently lineated, for example in T. S. Eliot’s Burnt Norton, and Jim Crace’s Quarantine. In this paper we offer comments on appropriate statistical methods for such work, and also on the nature of formal innovation in these two texts. Additional remarks are made on the roots of lineation as a metric...