Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide whi... more Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide which is still highly prevalent despite dramatic medical advances. According to the statistics provided by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2014, CVD-related mortality rate in Iran is 46%. This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) on quality of life (QOL) in patients with CVDs. Methods: This was a single-blind randomized controlled trial. In total, 60 patients with CVDs were recruited. Patients were allocated to the MBSR and CBT groups. Patients in the MBSR and CBT groups received intervention in 8, 2.5-hour sessions. The main outcome was QOL which was measured by the MacNew Quality of Life after Myocardial Infarction (QLMI) questionnaire. Data were analyzed using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) in SPSS software. Results: ANCOVA revealed a significant difference between the MBSR group and CBT group...
Biofilms (biolayers) are associations of living bacterial cells that adhere to various surfaces. ... more Biofilms (biolayers) are associations of living bacterial cells that adhere to various surfaces. Formation of biofilms composed of microorganisms on food materials (and surfaces in contact with them) exacerbates health-related problems and economic losses that result from decaying of food materials. Staphylococci, Bacilli, and Escherichia are among the most common bacteria that contaminate foodstuffs. This research studied the effects of thyme, licorice, and garlic extracts on reducing biofilms of these bacteria in a laboratory environment. The method of measuring light absorption by the biofilms in the wells of 96-well plates was used, and results showed the mentioned extracts had antimicrobial properties and reduced biofilm formation by Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, and Bacillus cereus. Increasing the concentrations of the extracts improved their inhibitory effects (by up to 71 and 64% against E. coli and B. cereus, respectively), but the maximum inhibitory effect on S....
The prevailing motifs of Auster’s literary oeuvre such as chance, contingent events, writing and ... more The prevailing motifs of Auster’s literary oeuvre such as chance, contingent events, writing and the binary opposition of reader and author are also noticeable in Paul Auster’s Invisible; however, in this article, we examine the novel in terms of the characters’ psychological attempts to form their different identifications within Lacanian theoretical framework. Born acts as both reified big Other and object petit a for Walker, while Walker, in his different encounters with Born, experiences disparate Zizekian parallax views. Holding such views, Walker stands in the middle of the various courses of subjectivities, thereby undergoing a complicated interwoven subjectivity. Furthermore, Born’s encounters with the Real, epitomized in Born, place him in the two concurrent positions of subjectivities both in the Imaginary and the Symbolic order. As a result, his constant Symbolic identifications with signifying traits of Born’s bring him nothing but an aporia of logical perplexities. Last...
International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, 2017
Angela Carter (1940-92) in her famous short story,The Bloody Chamber, depicts a protagonist whose... more Angela Carter (1940-92) in her famous short story,The Bloody Chamber, depicts a protagonist whose identity seems to be a predetermined sign in a signifying loop from which she can make no escape. In the first part of our paper, we attempt to show how The protagonist’s ensuing psychological tension is aggravated by the conflict which she feels between her ideal ego (as an innocent girl) and her ego-ideal (a rare talent for corruption) and which leads her to unrelenting introspection and interior dialogue with her existential states. Such interior dialogue provides the protagonist with an existential ground on which she empties all her life events of their presence by signifying (or verbalizing) them through Derridean Differance. Therefore, her interior dialogue results in non-identity in her subjectivization both in the realm of signs and of (social) events. Then, we focus on the protaganist’s paradoxical urges spontaneously outflowed from within which, by resisting symbolization, pr...
Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide whi... more Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide which is still highly prevalent despite dramatic medical advances. According to the statistics provided by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2014, CVD-related mortality rate in Iran is 46%. This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) on quality of life (QOL) in patients with CVDs. Methods: This was a single-blind randomized controlled trial. In total, 60 patients with CVDs were recruited. Patients were allocated to the MBSR and CBT groups. Patients in the MBSR and CBT groups received intervention in 8, 2.5-hour sessions. The main outcome was QOL which was measured by the MacNew Quality of Life after Myocardial Infarction (QLMI) questionnaire. Data were analyzed using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) in SPSS software. Results: ANCOVA revealed a significant difference between the MBSR group and CBT group...
Biofilms (biolayers) are associations of living bacterial cells that adhere to various surfaces. ... more Biofilms (biolayers) are associations of living bacterial cells that adhere to various surfaces. Formation of biofilms composed of microorganisms on food materials (and surfaces in contact with them) exacerbates health-related problems and economic losses that result from decaying of food materials. Staphylococci, Bacilli, and Escherichia are among the most common bacteria that contaminate foodstuffs. This research studied the effects of thyme, licorice, and garlic extracts on reducing biofilms of these bacteria in a laboratory environment. The method of measuring light absorption by the biofilms in the wells of 96-well plates was used, and results showed the mentioned extracts had antimicrobial properties and reduced biofilm formation by Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, and Bacillus cereus. Increasing the concentrations of the extracts improved their inhibitory effects (by up to 71 and 64% against E. coli and B. cereus, respectively), but the maximum inhibitory effect on S....
The prevailing motifs of Auster’s literary oeuvre such as chance, contingent events, writing and ... more The prevailing motifs of Auster’s literary oeuvre such as chance, contingent events, writing and the binary opposition of reader and author are also noticeable in Paul Auster’s Invisible; however, in this article, we examine the novel in terms of the characters’ psychological attempts to form their different identifications within Lacanian theoretical framework. Born acts as both reified big Other and object petit a for Walker, while Walker, in his different encounters with Born, experiences disparate Zizekian parallax views. Holding such views, Walker stands in the middle of the various courses of subjectivities, thereby undergoing a complicated interwoven subjectivity. Furthermore, Born’s encounters with the Real, epitomized in Born, place him in the two concurrent positions of subjectivities both in the Imaginary and the Symbolic order. As a result, his constant Symbolic identifications with signifying traits of Born’s bring him nothing but an aporia of logical perplexities. Last...
International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, 2017
Angela Carter (1940-92) in her famous short story,The Bloody Chamber, depicts a protagonist whose... more Angela Carter (1940-92) in her famous short story,The Bloody Chamber, depicts a protagonist whose identity seems to be a predetermined sign in a signifying loop from which she can make no escape. In the first part of our paper, we attempt to show how The protagonist’s ensuing psychological tension is aggravated by the conflict which she feels between her ideal ego (as an innocent girl) and her ego-ideal (a rare talent for corruption) and which leads her to unrelenting introspection and interior dialogue with her existential states. Such interior dialogue provides the protagonist with an existential ground on which she empties all her life events of their presence by signifying (or verbalizing) them through Derridean Differance. Therefore, her interior dialogue results in non-identity in her subjectivization both in the realm of signs and of (social) events. Then, we focus on the protaganist’s paradoxical urges spontaneously outflowed from within which, by resisting symbolization, pr...
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