SUMMARY Diagnostic residual and partial residual plots are proposed to identify nonlinearity in covariates for generalized linear models. It is shown that these plots are complement each other in the detection of nonlinearity. In addition, a transformed additive model which allows the resulting residual and partial residual plots to be obtained through the standard least squares approach is pro...

â  a geographical dimension in the poetry of de’bil al- khozaee â  â  abdul rasoul ghaffari * â  â abstractâ in this article, we attempt to study de'bil al-khozaee's poetry. we find him a person who travelled a lot around the west and the east of islamic world. in his journey, he acquired knowledge, belles-letters, morals and also wealth. what is important for us in this research is...

abstractibn-nubatah is one of the poets of deterioration era who lived at this time so hispoetry has the trace of both the imitation and repetition of the poets of that time. heused a kind of poetic theme in his poems that lacks the privilege and typicality of agood poem because he imitated some poets like emre'al- qays, tarafah ibn al-a’bd,khansa, hassan ibn sabet al-ansary, ka’b ibn ...

The paper is an analysis of buildings behavior during strong earthquakes, considering the modifications of the structural dynamic characteristics due to strong earthquake generated damages. The study is focused on the difference in a building behavior, function of the mode the structure is situated relative to the seismic ground motion from the spectral point of view: below resonance or above r...

abstract   iran has many historic cities and villages with economic, historic and cultural values facing with many seismic faults. there have been no comprehensive studies about reducing the vulnerability of the historic villages, and the available documents describe the retrofitting experiments only about the single buildings.  lack of a comprehensive look at the subject leads to the loss of t...

â â â  poetic stories in ilia abu mazi’s poetic works â â â  sadeq fathi dehkordi * â  shlyr fathi ** â  abstract â  â  poetic story is a kind of art firmly connected to poetry and story and is a sign of restoration in arabic poetry furthermore, it is an artistic field for presenting poets' ability in putting poetry and tale together. this genre has included many current poetic works. ab...