BACKGROUND There has been little research into poetry-based medical education. Few studies consider learners' perceptions in depth. OBJECTIVE To explore general practice registrars' (GPRs) perceptions of two poetry-based sessions. METHODS GPRs in one general practice vocational training scheme experienced two poetry sessions. In one, the facilitator selected poems; in the other, poems were ...

We test the Consensual Assessment Technique on recent digital poetry, using graduate students in Experimental Digital Media as judges. Our judges display good interrater agreement for the best and worst poems, but disagree on others. The CAT by itself may not be suitable for use on digital poetry; however, the behavior of quasi-expert judges when attempting this task gives us clues towards evid...

Gender inequality and violence against women are critically discussed by scholars around the world. Set in Afghanistan, a country that still adheres to patriarchal culture, Khaled Hosseini, his novel A Thousand Splendid Suns, depicts how two main female characters, Meriam Laila, have face domestic their polygamous marriage with Rasheed. This research aims show is portrayed Suns Hosseini challen...

Rouhollah Heydari*, Mohammad Hosseini, Mohammad Alimoradi and Sanaz Zarabi Razi Herbal Medicines Research Center, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences PO Bo x 68149-89468, Khorrsamabad, Iran. Young Researchers and Elite Club, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran. Department of Chemistr...

Mohammad Rahim Ahmadi*, Arsalan Hosseini, Hamid Reza Gheisari, Morteza Yavari Department of Clinical Sciences, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran Pathobiology, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran Food Hygiene, School of Veterinary Medicine, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran Department of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Paraveterinary Sciences, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran Asian Pac J Trop Dis 2...

Afsaneh Koochek ([email protected]) Parvin Mirmiran ([email protected]) Kristina Sundquist ([email protected]) Firoozeh Hosseini ([email protected]) Tohid Azizi ([email protected]) Ali S Moeini ([email protected]) Sven-Erik Johansson ([email protected]) Brita Karlström ([email protected]) Fereidoun Azizi ([email protected]) Jan Sundquist (Jan.Sundqu...

Rhythm is expressed by recurring, hence predictable beat patterns. Poetry in many languages is composed with attention to poetic meters while prose is not. Therefore, one way to investigate speech rhythm is to evaluate how prose reading differs from poetry reading via a quantitative method that measures predictability. We use linear regression to predict the acoustic properties of segments from...

The third novel by Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed, is a work of family drama historical fiction that examines factors surrounding one lead to and reverberate from action: poor sells their youngest daughter wealthy couple in Kabul. Set Afghanistan, spans over fifty 50 years four generations. Hosseini includes several narrative voices, rather than just story’s main family. multiple nar...

With the rise of ecological branch of literary criticism many critics have attempted to explore the relationship of literature and environment. Consequently the role of literature, and especially poetry is re-examined from ecocentric perspective, that is, poetry is considered as promoting ecological consciousness. Some of the critics eve argue that this consciousness can be converted into activ...