Abstract In chapter 47 of the Book Isaiah fall Babylon is described in metaphorical language: arrogant queen condemned for having practiced witchcraft since her youth. The evil which she inflicted on victims will befall herself, and downfall be swift without warning. Her dire fate follows that fellow sorcerers, who have perished fire flames. This article compares portrayal demise Isa with Mesop...

Doctoral research candidates navigate a unique path and sustain rigorous program of study as they make an original contribution to knowledge. The complex challenging nature doctoral is evidenced by high rates anxiety depression among (Evans et al., 2018). Metaphors are one tool used supervisors facilitate communication the candidate’s understanding process. In this article, we argue that existi...

Irregular and insufficient sleep place youth at risk for adverse psychological and physical health outcomes. Recent research indicates that discrimination constitutes a type of stressor that interferes with adolescent sleep; however, the mechanisms through which discrimination affects sleep are not well understood. This study examined whether ethnic and non-ethnic (i.e., gender, age, and height...

in the eyes of contemporary palestinian poets the occupied land illustrates a sweetheart boasting an endless number of ravishing names. the poet gets their way through to their sweetheart (homeland) by a figment of their imagination and takes a specific and different look at it. after the start of hardships in palestine and its occupation at the pinnacle of crises, the “woman” was looked at as ...

This article examines the representation of a transnational archive of queer books in Alison Bechdel's graphic memoirs Fun Home and Are You My Mother? for the insights it provides into the role of reading in making sense of the often difficult "felt experiences" of lesbian life. In both memoirs, books serve an important narrative function in the portrayal of Alison's lesbian identification and ...

The impact of the Mongol invasions of the Middle East has been the subject of extensive research, especially in the last few decades. Scholars have evaluated the damage and the benefits brought by the Mongols to the Islamic world in different fields such as the military, religion, politics, economy and culture. Despite this, in the case of Anatolia, the Mongol period is still under-studied when...

The author discusses memory from the point of view of the neurosciences and molecular biology, proposing an integration with the psychoanalytic theory of the unconscious. The discovery of the implicit memory has extended the concept of the unconscious and supports the hypothesis that this is where the emotional and affective--sometimes traumatic--presymbolic and preverbal experiences of the pri...

Humans can effortlessly understand a lot of what is going on in other peoples' minds. Understanding the neural basis of this capacity has proven quite difficult. Since the discovery of mirror neurons, a number of successful experiments have approached the question of how we understand the actions of others from the perspective of sharing their actions. Recently we have demonstrated that a simil...

The integrity and stability of nucleosomes under transcription assay conditions has been found to depend on concentration and ionic environment. Rifamycin AF/013, a commonly used inhibitor of initiation, is particularly effective in destabilisation of nucleosomes. Intact nucleosomes are refractory to transcription by wheat RNA polymerase II, the histone core preventing initiation. Template titr...

the present article aims to investigate the background and casts light on a social and cultural forgotten tradition that has been reflected through a complex simile as well as illusory words in the following couplet of the survived rudaki's poems. behind the clouds, the sun makes appear its face now and then like a prisoner passing by her watcher according to the findings of this article, ...