The lateral line system of fish and amphibians is closely related to the inner ear in terms of evolution, morphology and physiology. Several recent papers have shed new light on the postembryonic development of this system, and have revealed an unexpected triangular relationship where migrating sensory precursors guide axons, axons guide glia and glia, in turn, control the formation of sensory ...

Recent years have seen a notable resurgence of interest in the philosophy of love and friendship. In this paper, I bring into dialogue two important texts that approach this topic from a Christian point of view: C. S. Lewis‟s The Four Loves and Søren Kierkegaard‟s Works of Love. I shall argue that each thinker helpfully clarifies important points the other leaves obscure, and that Lewis (like K...

INTRODUCTION One of the most difficult dilemmas in relationship science and couple therapy concerns the interaction between sexual desire and love. As two mental states of intense longing for union with others, sexual desire and love are, in fact, often difficult to disentangle from one another. AIM The present review aims to help understand the differences and similarities between these two ...

INTRODUCTION Brain imaging is becoming a powerful tool in the study of human cerebral functions related to close personal relationships. Outside of subcortical structures traditionally thought to be involved in reward-related systems, a wide range of neuroimaging studies in relationship science indicate a prominent role for different cortical networks and cognitive factors. Thus, the field need...

Almost everybody can relate to a state of “being or falling in love” even though it is difficult to define love. Love may be a strong, passionate affection for a person. Hence, the Oxford English Dictionary defines love as an intense feeling of deep affection or fondness for a person or a thing, a sexual passion, or sexual relations. Thus, love is an emotion often associated with consensual sex...

the basic issue in this article is to analyze the relationships of characters in nezami’s khosrow & shirin by using of greimas’s actors pattern. in nezami’s narrative we found the six actors that greimas mentioned; including: transmitter, recipient, subject, object, helper, and deterrent. according to the results of this article the transmitter is part of khosrow’s character – his unconsciousne...

Proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) is a leading cause of visual loss in adults in industrialized countries. PDR patients with light perception (LP) or hand movement (HM) acuity due to severe vitreous hemorrhage require vitreous surgery. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the visual acuity of PDR patients with LP or HM can be graded into finer steps with the Low Vision Eval...