the literature on language teaching and learning has mostly accentuated motivation as one of the crucial factors influencing learners, but demotivating factors can be of crucial importance as well. in this vein, considering a grounded theory approach, this study has tried to investigate the demotivating factors influencing iranian university students of non-english majors utilizing an interview...

The literature on language teaching and learning has mostly accentuated motivation as one of the crucial factors influencing learners, but demotivating factors can be of crucial importance as well. In this vein, considering a grounded theory approach, this study has tried to investigate the demotivating factors influencing Iranian university students of non-English majors utilizing an interview...

We study a generalization of the notion of Gaussian free field (GFF). Although the extension seems minor, we first show that a generalized GFF does not satisfy the spatial Markov property, unless it is a classical GFF. In stochastic homogenization, the scaling limit of the corrector is a possibly generalized GFF described in terms of an “effective fluctuation tensor” that we denote by Q. We pro...

This paper surveys the multitude of indoor spatial models developed for many fields of study ranging from mobile robot mapping to indoor location-based services (LBS) and most recently to context-aware navigation services applied to indoor environments. Recently, several studies have been presented to evaluate spatial models in the context of mobile robot localisation and mapping [12], [74] as ...

Lam (2007) introduces a generalization of renewal processes named Geometric processes, where inter-arrival times are independent and identically distributed up to a multiplicative scale parameter, in a geometric fashion. We here envision a more general scaling, not necessar- ily geometric. The corresponding counting process is named Extended Geometric Process (EGP). Semiparametric estimates are...

introduction: in order to fulfill the health and medical needs of rural people, iran's medical services insurance organization approved a plan to provide rural health insurance in 2005. the plan aimed to make an appropriate context for the activities of private health care service providers in the rural areas and to meet public expectations for access to specialized medical services. in this st...

INTRODUCTION: Questions have a fundamental role in human and natural sciences. Many fields in human and natural sciences explore their subject matters through different kinds of questions. The team of the Ontology of Questions aims at providing a philosophical analysis and categorization of questions (except rhetorical and ironic ones), from different academic areas. Our categorization is based...

In this paper a novel technique for identifying lexical contexts in web resources is presented. The basic idea is to consider web site anchortexts as lexicalized descriptions of an individual ontology organized in the form of a graph of concept words. In the search for peculiar semantic patterns, the concept of web minutia (transposed from the forensic domain) is introduced. The proposed techni...