DRAGON IMAGES IN JAPANESE CULTURE: GENESIS AND SEMANTICS

Dragon images in Japanese culture: Genesis and semantics

The article deals with the genesis, semantics, and functions of the dragon image in Japanese culture.The relevance of the study is due to the increased attention of researchers to the basic values of local cultures, issues of symbolism, inextricably linked to the problems of national self-identification.The methodological basis of the study is the

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Prevalence of hepatitis A in the capitals of the States of North, Southeast and South regions of Brazil: decrease in prevalence and some consequences

ABSTRACT Hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection has been considered one of the leading causes of acute hepatitis.The aim of the present study was to estimate the prevalence of HAV among children and adolescents in a population-based study in the capitals of the States of the North, Southeast and South of Brazil and identify predictive factors for the in

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A cascade of iron-containing proteins governs the genetic iron starvation response to promote iron uptake and inhibit iron storage in fission yeast.

Iron is an essential cofactor, but it is also toxic at high levels.In Schizosaccharomyces pombe, the sensor glutaredoxin Grx4 guides the activity of the repressors Php4 and Fep1 to mediate a complex transcriptional response to iron deprivation: activation of Php4 and inactivation of Fep1 leads to inhibition of iron usage/storage, and to promotion o

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A comparative approach to the institutions of appeal in favor of the law and Contrary to the Sharia approach in French and Iranian criminal law

according to the article 477 of the Code of Criminal Procedure 2014(1392), the institution of retrial has been envisaged by the head of the judiciary as one of the extraordinary ways to challenge the votes, by recognizing the opposition of Lead Wires the vote to Sharia.The study of French criminal law also shows that the establishment of an appeal

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