Self-identified Hispanic/Latino individuals living with multiple sclerosis (MS) in the continental United States (US) are a diverse group that represents different cultural and ancestral backgrounds. A marked variability in the way MS affects various subgroups of Hispanics in the US has been observed. We reviewed and synthesized available data about MS in Hispanics in the US. There are likely a...

John Cleland’s 1740s pornographic novel, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure repeatedly depicts and eroticises the act of defloration. As such it is a revealing illustration of what Ivan Bloch termed the ‘defloration mania’ of the eighteenth century. This article maps narrative events on to contemporary medical depictions of first intercourse to show the ways that the theories and ideas presented in...

What makes an idea culturally successful, such as the widespread notion in many societies of ancestor-spirits, a haiku, or the recipe for apple pie? To be sure, not all ideas are culturally successful. Some ideas are never represented in minds. Some are represented, but never communicated to others. Yet other ideas are successfully communicated to enough people that they become fashionable for ...

a foreign language teaching method is supposed to take into account the real communicative needs of the foreign language learner. using literary texts is a suitable way not only to teach a foreign language but to consider particular facts that relate to human and cultural needs of learners. using the humanistic-oriented literary texts as an authentic document in the foreign language course allo...

concepts and ideas met in the Ukrainian folklore text prevail by the notions of soul (душа), happiness (щастя), fortune (доля) and so on. Ideas of the kind mainly inherit the mythologically specified images that cannot be translated in the word-to-word translation but demand the essential knowledge of the Ukrainian specific mythology, culture as well as the folk psychology. The peculiar feature...

This paper explores the Rig Veda and other religious texts in identifying deity Rudra Deva his importance sacred text. It is seen that Lord Shiva was unknown during those days. The Vedic reveal there are many shuktas or verses devotion to Rudra. society of days awe gave great Deva. study brings light has been highly praised prayed for protection prosperity. herbal knowledge. They also with view...

the purpose of our research is to provide psychodiagnostic a dialogue in culturally oriented surrounding process school studying.methods research. The following theoretical methods were used solve tasks formulated article: categorical method, structural and functional methods, analysis, systematization, modeling, generalization. experimental method was organi­zing empirical research.the results...

We present a fast compression and decompression technique for natural language texts. The novelty is that the exact search can be done on the compressed text directly, using any known sequential pattern matching algorithm. Approximate search can also be done ee-ciently without any decoding. The compression scheme uses a semi-static word-based modeling and a Huu-man coding where the coding alpha...