Introduction: It is important to know about the myths and misconceptions, especially in India, where general and oral health is embroiled in various myths and ritualistic practices. Objectives: The purpose of this study is aimed at assessing the prevalence of dental myth and utilizes socio-dental impact locus of control scale (SILOC) health model, as the theoretical framework to understand the ...

Sexual assault is underreported in the United States. Survivors are often reluctant to make police reports for various reasons; one is fear of revictimization by criminal justice professionals. Conversely, police officers often lack skills for interviewing crime victims. Posttraumatic stress reactions among victims can exacerbate the problem. Although some victims prefer female interviewers, it...

In today’s era of globalization and marginalization we are sometimes struck by the seeming paradox of examples of exceptional development in still marginalized regions, or “counter-geographies”. One such example is the purported clustering of centenarians (those who have surpassed 100 years) in the Caucasus region of the former Soviet States. This paper explores purported centenarian clustering...

yemeni poet abdul-aziz maqaleh is regarded among the poets who have been influenced by the myths of different nations. meanwhile this poet has used clearly and outstandingly from the greek mythology. although maqaleh has used in the beginning of his poem – like other poets- from the indexical aspect of myths, but he soon became successful to cover his own contemporary experience on the myths. p...

in a structural analysis, the “rebellion & decline” theme creates a narrative structure in which eleven stories of shāhnāmeh – equal to 3.18 per cent of the whole epic – are included, which makes it the tenth largest sequence of the shāhnāmeh. this narrative structure (sequence) consists of initial tranquillity, the king’s rebellion, his decline, and ultimate tranquillity. the epical theme of r...

The aim is to assess the effect of imprisonment on rape myth acceptance. The research used a sample of male prisoners incarcerated for non-sexual crimes (n = 98) and a sample of males drawn from the general population (n = 160). Simple linear regression did not indicate a significant effect of incarceration on rape myth acceptance. After controlling for background covariates using propensity sc...

We have implemented, using Craft (the Cray MPP data parallel language) and HPF 1.1, three basic scientific codes and kernels: a weather forecast program from NCAR, a tensor product, a Monte Carlo application. We compare the performance of the HPF programs to their Craft and message passing versions. Then, we discuss the pros and cons of the data parallel compilers we used and HPF data parallel ...