Three groups of children, aged 5, 7 and 11 years, were tested in a clausememory task, in order to investigate the role of syntactic and semantic factors in children's recall and processing of spoken continuous prose. The children listened to a story, which was interrupted at intervals during which they were asked to repeat verbatim the last sentence they heard. The testsentences always consiste...

Eruptive pseudoangiomatosis (EPA) is a rare, benign, spontaneously regressing childhood exanthem. The term was recently coined by Prose et al.1 to describe a dermatosis characterized by the sudden onset of a few to several bright red angioma-like papules with a different histopathology from the true angiomas. We describe three patients with the typical lesions of EPA but with some peculiar feat...

shahāb al-din mohammad zeydari nasavi, the author of “nafsat al-masdoor”, as one of the outstanding technical, literal and stylist prose writers, had a great interest in using different innovative and expressive arrays to illustrate his works.  he looked simile as an essential element of fantasy, and a unique approach in presenting themes, ideas and sometimes transmission of emotions and feelin...

jahez is considered as one of the prominent figures in arabic prose literacy of abbasids era which has left important works. among his literary heritages, “al-bokhala” is the result of jahez’s own experiences and knowledge, and shows the art of jahez by introducing the miser characters and their intelligence. this precious scholar has described the subject of avarice in miser’s life, based on s...

Andrei Ivanov (b. 1971) is the most well known Estonian Russianlanguage writer who has won many literary awards in Estonia and Russia. His prose and position in the literary field of Estonia has initiated the discussion about the exact definition of Estonian literature and the status of the Estonian Russian-language literature. Due to Ivanov’s prose, the world of Estonian Russians has become mo...

abstract from ancient time, iranians were interested in searching in the realm of arabic language and culture. it happens because of the necessities and religious background of arabic language, to some extent is due to iranian trend toward getting new knowledge, also it relates to the discussion of aesthetics and art. therefore, gradually we have observed some works in these domains and as a re...

Purpose To demonstrate clearing of chronic corneal opacities and improvement of visual acuity with the use of BostonSight prosthetic replacement of the ocular surface ecosystem (PROSE) treatment in ocular surface disease. Observations We undertook retrospective analysis of the medical records of a series of patients who underwent PROSE treatment from August 2006 to December 2014. Patients wer...