base on cultural studies’ presuppositions, this article presumes human being’s time perception to be constructed and cultural rather than inherent and universal; since every specific culture reconstructs its own unique forms of time and offers them to the belonging individuals as a natural reality. referring to theories and prior researches, there are three types of time conception: first, cycl...

The biblical book of Jonah has been the subject multiple literary retellings, ranging from individual poems to whole novels and theatrical dramas. This article focuses on interaction with in 20th-century world literature, where becomes our alter ego; he embodies own struggles God. I shall highlight three common tropes retellings: (1) Several retellings use character express a person’s failure e...

This paper reports the results of a study designed to investigate the interrelationship of Foreign Language Reading Anxiety (FLRA), Reading Proficiency (RP) and Text Feature Awareness (TFA). The aim was to focus on how foreign language reading anxiety and text feature awareness are related and how, in turn, they affect students reading proficiency. That is, it south to determine how these three...

Blood pressure, renal hemodynamics, electrolyte, and water excretion all display diurnal oscillation. Disturbance of these patterns is associated with hypertension and chronic kidney disease. Kidney oxygenation is dependent on oxygen delivery and consumption that in turn are determined by renal hemodynamics and metabolism. We hypothesized that kidney oxygenation also demonstrates 24-h periodici...