P R A C T IC E For many women, pregnancy is a time of heightened awareness about the importance of selfcare. Women generally have a strong desire to do what is best for their growing baby and will often make positive choices towards healthy behaviors during what they know is a crucial time in their baby’s development. Smoking cessation is a great example of how powerful the “pregnancy motivatin...

Bu çalışmada, Şeyhî’nin Harnâme adlı mesnevisi ile Gianni Rodari’nin “Genç Kerevit” (Il Giovane Gambero)” masalının benzerlik ve farklılıkları, ait oldukları farklı kültür kodları bağlamında incelenerek her iki eserin de kaynağı tespit edilmeye çalışılacaktır. İncelemeye temel olan sorunsal; dönemlerde, edebiyat dizgelerinde edebi türlerde verilen çalışmanın inceleme nesnesini oluşturan bu içer...

the gulistān palace library in tehran owns a manuscript of kalila va dimna (ms. 2198), a persian version, by  nasr allāh munshi. the volume consists of 107 folios, and the text is written in an elegant nasta’liq.   however, the manuscript is defective:  there is no colophon, nor any other indication to show the date and/or place at which it was executed.  the manuscript’s first public appearanc...

We examined the brain areas involved in discourse processing by using functional MRI in 10 individuals as they read paragraphs, with or without a title, word by word for comprehension. Functional data were collected from 20 adjacent 5 mm axial slices. Discourse processing was associated with activation in inferior frontal and temporal regions of both cerebral hemispheres in the titled and untit...