Moyamoya disease (MMD) is a rare intracranial vasculopathy characterized by the progressive occlusion of terminal internal carotid arteries and their proximal branches. Various factors including genetic inflammation are proposed pathogenesis MMD. We present case 31-year-old man who had recurrent stroke secondary to Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) magnetic angiography (MRA) demonstrated an infa...

jean racine, the 18th century french author, gave outstanding roles to his female characters. the presence of women in the literary works of racine was so powerful that some referred to him as the founder of female territory in literature. this text draws a comparison between three heroines featured in three racine plays of andromach, britannicus and phedra which are among the remarkable works ...

A few years ago, at a national interventional cardiology meeting, the speaker regaled the audience with an anecdote that may have been apocryphal but was entirely believable. At some earlier meeting, this speaker had challenged his audience with 3 sequential questions to which he invited a show of hands. The first was, “Have any of you witnessed an inappropriate coronary intervention?” in respo...

oday ibn zeid ebadi lived during the reign of khosro parviz and was a contemporary of naaman. he had a controversial life. on one hand he was living in pleasure & drinking and on the other hand he was a poet, a literary man and a politician. he is known for philosophical poetry. he reached high status in two imperial courts but conspiracies of envious enemies finally caused him imprisonment by ...

WAR as a vehicle and Sport Is War as a conceptual metaphor (CM) seem inadequate to account metaphorically for SPORT. To cater for an inclusive vehicle/CM, we selected WIN and LOSS lexicon from the news coverage of Brazil’s football team loss to Germany and tested them through the Corpus of Contemporary American English. Then, the data were studied through the 3 stages of metaphor research. In t...

while kant presupposes the existence of science and ethic, he studies their boundaries and limits as well. for doing this, he applies two terms and expressions, i.e., “reason” and “understanding”. in this paper, we take a look at the definitions of those two concepts in kant’s terminology within the approach that discriminates their differences. at first, the placement of these two faculties in...

In the recent article ‘Who was James Lind, and what exactly did he achieve’, Iain Milne refers to John Woodall’s, the Surgeon General of the East India Company, book The Surgions Mate published in 1617. Woodall recommended ensuring that ‘There is a good quantity of lemon juice sent in each ship’. Bowen et al. in their book ‘Monsoon Traders: The maritime world of the East India Company’ recount ...