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Onychophasia - A case report

Body focused repetitive behaviors are frequently seen in individuals with obsessive compulsive disorders. These behaviors range from repetitive hand washing to more severe forms such as onychophagia. We report a case of…

ANTIEPILEPTIC EFFECT OF CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS ALONE AND IN COMBINATION WITH PHENYTOIN ON MES INDUCED EPILEPSY IN RATS

Background: The currently available antiepileptic drugs have a low therapeutic index, and provide satisfactory seizure control in only 60-70% of patients. Calcium channel blocker has shown potentials of a useful add-on…

PENDIDIKAN KARAKTER SEBAGAI SARANA PEMBANGUNAN NILAI KERENDAHAN HATI DAN NILAI TOLERANSI TINJAUAN AL-QURAN

Through character education, it is hoped that the nation’s children can the social interactions in people who have diverse backgrounds that vary and ability of the entrepreneur, Attitudes to understand the differences…

INTERNALISASI NILAI KEDAMAIAN MELALUI PENDIDIKAN KEDAMAIAN SEBAGAI PENGUATAN PEMBANGUNAN KARAKTER PADA MASYARAKAT HETEROGEN

Indonesia has many diversities in many aspects. It is not only about hav- ing various ethnics but also many cultures, languages, as well as reli- gions. The diversity must be framed in the spirit of unity in diversities…

On Viktor Shklovsky's Penchant for Forms

In the article, I have decided to sketch a brief portrait of the most significant Russian formalist Viktor Shklovsky. In order to comment upon his contribution to the development of literary theory, I cast some light on…

Forma i funkcja w słowiańskich językach i tekstach kultury

Alexander Kiosev's Concept of Self-colonization and the Symmorphic Effect

Stemming from the general postcolonial theoretical tradition, the concept of self-colonisation proposed by the Bulgarian scholar Alexander Kiosev has proved inspiring to Polish scholars. This article attempts to examine…

Raskolnikov's Crime: An Eternal Mystery

The article focuses on one of the major mysteries concealed in Fyodor Dostoevsky's oeuvre up to the present day, namely the main cause of a double murder committed by Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment. I present selec…

Function and Meaning of Double Forms in Gogol's Stories The Old World Landowners, A Terrible Vengeance and The Nose

In this study, we are trying to connect the J. Tynjanov's theory of the constructive principle of the genre with the M.M. Bahtin's theory of genre memory, through the analysis of Gogol's stories Old World Landowners mat…

Elements of the Formal Procedures in Zaum Poetic Experiment

The paper analyzes the elements and strategies of Russian formalism applied to the Russian avantgarde zaum poetic experiment of Alexei Kruchenykh and Viktor Khlebnikov. In futuristic tendencies to create a trans-rationa…

Living in the Corpse. Functions of Tuberculosis and Forms of Its Representation in Croatian Literature and Culture in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century

In the second half of the 19th century, social development based on science, technological innovation, rationalism and capitalist economy presents itself as full of promise insofar as it proclaims the upcoming progress…

„Kao misnik" i „kao Turci iz Smail-age". A Function of Food in the Modern and Postmodern Narration of The Better Half of Courage by Ivan Slamnig

In the novel entitled The Better Half of Courage, Ivan Slamnig elaborates on two types of narrative namely, a traditional internal story derived from the poetics of realism and a postmodern frame story streaked with the…

Who Leads the Revolutionaries? The Translation Functionalism on the Basis of Some of the Polish Versions of The Twelve by Aleksander Blok

The article consists of three parts. In the first part, the author interprets the poem of A. Blok as a modernist variant of a "Petersburg Text", in the second - proposes and explains the formula of the "translation func…

What, How and What for - on the Relation Between Form and Function as Illustrated by Haiku

The paper addresses the problem of mutual relation between form and function as exemplified by haiku. Focusing upon the structure of haiku conducive to epiphany, it discusses some general aspects, independent of the dif…

„Tag ěto viřísení". On Forms and Functions of Graphic Language Devices

Normally, the sequences of graphic language devices function as "building material" for morphemes and words. Nevertheless, these sequences sometimes (especially in literary texts) occur in defamiliarized forms. The pape…

Imperativeness in between Grammatical Givens and Communicative Politeness

The paper focuses on the relation between imperatives and imperativeness, that is, between the imperative as a grammatical mood with a defined form and its assigned function, on the one hand, and imperativeness as a com…

Blends in Media and Advertising Discourse in Contemporary Croatian Language

The paper deals with blends - compound words which are formed by blending of form and meaning of two (or more) words - in contemporary Croatian language. Due to their structural peculiarity and expressiveness, they have…

Greetings and Farewells in Emails in Serbian Language

In this paper we consider opening greetings and complementary closes (farewells) in emails written in Serbian language that make relatively independent communication entities with the most general purpose of initiating…

Painter and His Double in the Artistic Opus of Katarina Radojlović)

The painting of Katarina Radojlovic1 , gone too soon as it happens too often in life, carries inherently and by its nature the autobiographical features that do not allow factual interpretations and anecdotal storytelli…

A Refunctionalisation of Form. The Modernist Turn in the Opus of Painter Leonid Šejka

Works by Belgrade artist Leonid Šejka (1932-1970) are usually considered fantastic, an embodiment of aesthetic ideals of Mediala Art Group he was a member of, an opposition to everything that Modernism stood for with it…

Concert and a Question of Time

The focus on the structural and semantic role of time is one of the key features of modernist cinema in the period after the Second World War. Modernist filmmakers experiment with means of aesthetic expression, such as…

"Arch Macedonia", from Pseudo Classicism to Monument of Culture, from Political Ritualization to Civil Demystification

In this paper, we are considering the social aspects of the object "Porta Macedonia" as a part of the project "Skopje 2014", its political and cultural meanings, its symbolic aspects and its reflection on identity polic…

Form and Function in Baroque Architecture

The paper presents relations between form and function in the architecture on few selected examples of theoretical texts. Interrelation of form and function is analyzed on examples of the most important types of baroque…

The First Map of Slovenia

The first map of Slovenia was published only in 1861; it was the work of Peter Kozler, Slovenian lawyer and self-taught cartographer. If we analyze it in context of contemporary cartography, its novelty appears clearly.…

A "Priestesses from Marvinci" or a "Harnessed Wife"? Semiotics of the Iron Age Cheek-Pieces from the Group of "Macedonian Bronzes"

The main reason for this study are the bronze objects found on the body of a woman (supposedly a "priestess") from an Iron Age grave (VII century BC) from Marvinci in the Republic of Macedonia. There has also been a bro…