background and objectives: asthma is a chronic respiratory disease characterized by reversible contraction of airways. coping strategies can reduce the negative impact of the disease in individuals or cause incompatible behaviors by negative effect. this study aimed to evaluate the religious coping strategies in asthma patients and the relationship of religious coping and general health. method...

the present study aimed at investigating whether vocabulary-learning strategies had any impact on the vocabulary learning of iranian efl learners. the participants of the study were 67 male and female undergraduate university students, majoring in english translation and english literature at islamic azad university, north tehran branch, who were taking “reading comprehension ii” course. in ord...

in order to confirm the effectiveness of language learning strategies in theiranian context in junior high schools, this study was designed to examine thepatterns of strategy use, the effects of strategy instruction on the students’ strategyuse, and the relationship between the participants’ strategy use and their englishachievement. to achieve this objective, 57 junior high school participants...

In this paper, we prove that the Strong Novikov Conjecture for a residually finite group is essentially equivalent to the Coarse Geometric Novikov Conjecture for a certain metric space associated to the group. As an application, we obtain the Coarse Geometric Novikov Conjecture for a large class of sequences of expanders.

We construct several geometric representatives for the C/Zm fractional branes on either a partially or the completely resolved orbifold. In the process we use large radius and conifold-type monodromies, and provide a strong consistency check. In particular, for C/Z5 we give three different sets of geometric representatives. We also find the explicit Seiberg-duality, in the Berenstein-Douglas se...

The concepts of (∈γ ,∈γ ∨ qδ)-fuzzy h-ideals and (∈γ ,∈γ ∨ qδ)-fuzzy hinterior ideals in hemirings are introduced. Some new characterization theorems of these kinds of fuzzy h-ideals are also given. In particular, we investigate prime and strong prime (∈γ ,∈γ ∨ qδ)-fuzzy h-ideals in hemirings. Finally, we show that the h-hemiregular and h-semisimple hemirings can be described by using these kin...

Evolution Strategies (ES) have recently been demonstrated to be a viable alternative to reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms on a set of challenging deep RL problems, including Atari games and MuJoCo humanoid locomotion benchmarks. While the ES algorithms in that work belonged to the specialized class of natural evolution strategies (which resemble approximate gradient RL algorithms, such as ...