Representation of National Identity in Malaysian State Mosque Built Form as a Socio- cultural Product

critical period effects in foreign language learning:the influence of maturational state on the acquisition of reading,writing, and grammar in english as a foreign language

since the 1960s the age effects on learning both first and second language have been explored by many linguists and applied linguists (e.g lennerberg, 1967; schachter, 1996; long, 1990) and the existence of critical period for language acquisition was found to be a common ground of all these studies. in spite of some common findings, some issues about the impacts of age on acquiring a second or...

Cultural identity, representation, and Othering

Globalisation is not a new experience. The anthropologist N.P. Pieterse (2004) maintains that anthropologists, economists, historians, political scientists and sociologists see it as a long-term historical process, which has witnessed, amongst others, the ancient population movements across and between continents and the diffusion of technologies (military technologies, numeracy, literacy, scie...

Study People and Nature Connection in Built Environment to verify Aqa-Bozorg Mosque as Biophilic Design

In this era that new technology has affected human life, many research scientists believe that Biophilic design can improve human well-being.� Biophilic architecture can provide healthy spaces connected with nature and reduce stress and enhance longevity. Different researchers have identified and categorized different patterns in the Biophilic design. These patterns have a wide range of applica...

Finite form of the quintuple product identity

where the q-shifted factorial is defined by (x; q)0 = 1 and (x; q)n = (1− x)(1 − qx) · · · (1− q x) for n = 1, 2, · · · with the following abbreviated multiple parameter notation [α, β, · · · , γ; q]∞ = (α; q)∞(β; q)∞ · · · (γ; q)∞. This identity has several important applications in combinatorial analysis, number theory and special functions. For the historical note, we refer the reader to the...

Design as a Socio-cultural Cognitive System