Lost Hopes and Mixed Quotes

Revisiting Quotes from Educational Perspective: An Inquiry into the Multifarious Applications of Grand Quotes in English Language Pedagogy

Can Inspirational Quotes Help the Recall of Abstract Vocabulary?

The present study investigates the potential impact of inspirational quotes on improving English abstract vocabulary recall. To achieve this, a multiple-choice Oxford Quick Placement Test (OQPT) of 60 items including vocabulary and grammar component was administered as the proficiency test to a sample of 63 second-semester male and female students aged 18 to 22, studying English Translation in ...

A conic quadratic model for supply chain network design under hub, capacity, delay and lost sale

In this paper, mathematical models are proposed for simultaneously modeling location and inventory control decisions in a four echelon supply chain network considering capacity. The echelons considered in this paper include suppliers, warehouses, hubs and retailers. The aim of the model is to minimize the location, transportation and inventory control costs. Hence, a non-linear mixed integer pr...

Predicting Market Direction from Direct Speech by Business Leaders

Direct quotations from business leaders can communicate to the wider public the latent state of their organization as well as the beliefs of the organization’s leaders. Candid quotes from business leaders can have dramatic effects upon the share price of their organization. For example, Gerald Ratner in 1991 stated that his company’s products were crap and consequently his company (Ratners) los...

Characterizing Quotation

The quotes in (3) and (4) mention the quoted expression without using them. We can analyze these quotes as simply denoting the quoted expressions, which have properties such as having eight letters and being said by Quine. In contrast, the embedded clause in (5) is a quote only in that it uses—not mentions—the expression quotation has a certain anomalous feature to express a proposition attribu...