accounts and narratives of the ancient iranian texts and sources of the islamic period concerning fereydun indicate that this iranian dragon-slayer hero has been known for his three powers, that is “fighting powers,” “medical skills,” and “sorcery arts”. on the other hand, his name, fereydun (middle persian “frēdōn”, avestan “θraētaona-“), seems to mean “the owner of three powers” or “the one w...

The article focuses on a passage from Carl Schmitt?s Ex Captivitate Salus - book famously written in Nurnberg prison 1946 which he draws, memory, story derived Serbian epic poetry, to justify his understanding of historiography, victory, and the figure hero. Analyzing entire poem Schmitt extracts vignette question, we show how text presents significantly more complicated messy picture figures v...

After creation of an arteriovenous fistula or placement of an arteriovenous graft, several weeks are required for maturation prior to first cannulation. Patients need an alternative way to receive hemodialysis during this time, frequently a catheter. After multiple failed access attempts, patients can run out of options and become catheter dependent. At our institution, we place HeRO grafts in ...

Austen's extraordinary realism in depicting the dynamic internal processes which follow on the heroine's loss in Persuasion becomes clear in the light of a psychoanalytic understanding of mourning. Persuasion dramatizes the effects of a mother's death in adolescence as these come into play at the time of the heroine's separation from her fiancée and her later mourning. The thesis of this paper ...

ure from Greek mythology for nearly 3 millennia. Central to his myth is the story cycle about the 12 presumably impossible labors he carried out for the loathed King Eurystheus. Sometimes overlooked is that Hercules performed those tasks as penance for having murdered his own wife and children during a fit of madness. For the fourth labor, Eurystheus ordered Hercules to capture the vicious Erym...

Good oral health is of important for general health and well-being of the individual. Several innovative drug delivery systems have been developed for the local treatment and prevention of various diseases in the oral cavity. However, currently there are only few optimal systems and many of them are plagued with therapeutic challenges, like low drug efficacy and retention at targeted site of ac...

The in vitro reduction of a bacterial population in a root canal by mechanical instrumentation using three techniques was evaluated. Root canals inoculated with a Enterococcus faecalis (E. faecalis) suspension were instrumented using hand Hedstroem files, Giromatic files, and Hero 642 rotary instruments. Irrigation was performed using sterile saline solution. Root canals were sampled before and...

Most ontologies are application ontologies, that are not reusable and are difficult to link together as they are too specific. Reference ontology is able to contribute significantly in reducing the issue of ontology applications specificity. Particularly considering higher education domain, we think that a reference ontology dedicated to this knowledge area, can be regarded as a valuable tool f...

GEES (School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences), The University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK, CE3C – Centre for Ecology Evolution and Environmental Changes/Azorean Biodiversity Group and Universidade dos Ac ores – Departamento de Cîencias e Engenharia do Ambiente, 9700-042 Angra do Hero ısmo, Ac ores, Portugal, Dep. de Cîencias Agr arias, CMMG (Centro de Estudos do Clima M...