mamdūh adwān (1941-2004) is a contemporary syrian poet who has vastly used traditions in his poems and has tried to express his ideas and stances toward arab world's current problems in a symbolic way and through traditional characters. mamdūh adwān is known as a poet committed to his country and people, and so, he considers expression of problems and provision of solutions as the highest ...

College of Animal Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; [email protected] (Y.Z.); [email protected] (Z.L.); [email protected] (X.W.); [email protected] (D.P.); [email protected] (Y.L.); [email protected] (X.H.); [email protected] (X.M.); [email protected] (L.H.); [email protected] (Y.Y.) * Correspondence: [email protected]...

In her article "Travel and Empire in Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good" Yi-chin Shih analyzes Our Country's Good from the perspective of travel in order to explore the exercise of empire and the practice of resistance. Considered as one of the luminaries in British theater, Timberlake Wertenbaker (1951-) has produced several successful works, especially Our Country's Good (1988), which won her a...

Victor Jollos studied fruit flies and microorganisms in Europe and the US, and he introduced the concept of Dauermodifikationen in the early 1900s. The concept of Dauermodifikationen refers to environmentally-induced traits that are heritable for only a limited number of generations. Some scientists interpreted the results of Jollos's work on Paramecium [4] and Drosophila [5] as evidence for cy...

Large-scale brain networks are integral to the coordination of human behaviour, and their anatomy provides insights into the clinical presentation and progression of neurodegenerative illnesses such as Alzheimer's disease, which targets the default mode network, and behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia, which targets a more anterior salience network. Although the default mode network is ...

The controversy that results seems to stem not from different definitions of "consciousness," as some of the participants suggest, but rather from a lack of agreement upon the meaning of "explain." Transcripts of a hypnoanalytic treatment session and of Beck's movie, "Unconscious Motivation," are used by Lewis R. Wolberg to illustrate "Hypnotic Phenomena." Marcel Monnier summarizes the changes ...

Regulation of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) mRNA levels is not well understood. Mouse Cftr mRNA shows strain-dependent expression differences that cannot be fully explained by variation at non-Cftr loci. Differences in tracheal and colonic expression appear to be due predominantly to elements linked to Cftr. Fifteen single nucleotide sequence variations were found w...

orthopedic surgeon who served as the former Vice Chancellor of Sri Ramachandra University, a prominent university in India and Chairman and Director of Orthopedic Care Centre at Ramachandra Medical centre. Dr. Marthandam began his career at a small public health centre in Tirunelveli district in south India and served in the Government General Hospital and Royapettah Government Hospital in Chen...

Hans Spemann [5] was an experimental embryologist best known for his transplantation studies [6] and as the originator of the ?organizer? concept. One of his earliest experiments involved constricting the blastomeres of a fertilized salamander [7] egg [8] with a noose of fine baby hair, resulting in a partially double embryo with two heads and one tail. Spemann continued changing variables such...