Only a few years ago the nature nurture issue seemed to have mercifully receded into a comfortable state of scientific oblivion. But as so many times before, this reliable ogre has now managed to raise its ugly head again. Due to the recent wildfirelike spreading of evolutionary thinking to the social sciences the problem is once more in need of clarification. A kind of tacit agreement that see...

and we moved from theory to a real clinical case. A 37-year-old lady presented with two consecutive episodes of syncope. She was seen on a Friday afternoon in a hospital 100 km south of Barcelona, Spain. An ECG was recorded and forwarded for a second opinion to our Arrhythmia Unit in the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona. The ECG (fig. 3 of the original paper) showed a QTc interval of 248 ms. During...

The Riemann integral is founded on the following idea: divide up the domain of a function f : [a, b] −→ R into subintervals, estimate f from above and below on each interval, and approximate the integral of f by the upper and lower sums—the summation of the widths of the intervals times the upper and lower estimates on each. The limit over partitions of [a, b] of these two approximations, shoul...

The new concept of embodied cognition theories has been enthusiastically studied by the cognitive sciences, by as well as such disparate disciplines as philosophy, anthropology, neuroscience, and robotics. Embodiment theory provides the framework for ongoing discussions on the linkage between "low" cognitive processes as perception and "high" cognition as language processing and comprehension, ...

Due to the potential of literature to expresses both cultural values and universal human values, its study can promote internal as well as international communication. The literary reader’s creative (or rather, ‘co-creative’) role and the imaginative involvement engendered by this role encourage a dynamic interaction between reader, text and external world. Today, with the interdisciplinary out...

structuralism analysis of literary texts is one of the most popular ways to analyze text from a twentieth century to. this time, the founder of this theory is “barthes”, he offered a model that based on five codes. this study that written by analytical and descriptive method is select the “tofigh hakims” short story by name: “satan wins” and tries to analyze it by structuralism view, the major ...

abd allah b.sa’d, believed in islam and for a short time recorded divine revelations; but then he lost his faith. historical studies prove that his apostasy has no relation to writing celestial words. but story-writers who often lack an analytical mind, perhaps credulously or tendentiously connect his blaspheme to the act of recording sacred verses. these unfounded stories have entered history ...