This paper describes new temporal data mining techniques for extracting information from temporal health records consisting of time series of diabetic patients’ treatments. In this new method, there are three steps for analyzing patterns from a longitudinal data set. The first step, a structural-based pattern search, to find qualitative patterns (or, structural patterns). The second step perfor...

this article discusses the stylistic criticism of the adonis’s poetry, based on the book modern poetic style by salah fadel. for this purpose, this article focuses on the critic himself and investigates the basic issues that he raised, specifies the concept and the expressions that he conceptualized, and the methodological techniques that he employed. this researcher believes that the critic ha...

This thesis proposes an account of the effects achieved by the poetic use of rhetorical tropes and schemes in the light of recent developments in pragmatic theory. More specifically it discusses and attempts to develop the relevance theory account of poetic effects. Much recent debate in literary studies has centred on the question as to whether literary communication is best explained in terms...

This paper is a comparative quantitative evaluation of an approach to teaching poetry in the subject domain of English that employs a ‘guided discovery’ pedagogy using computer-based microworlds. It uses a quasi-experimental design in order to measure performance gains in computational thinking and poetic thinking following a microworld-based intervention in English lessons. Preliminary finding...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of expressive arts therapy on decreasing anxiety of orphaned girls living in family-like centers of Mashhad, Iran.  Methods: One week prior to final examinations, participants were randomly assigned to either an expressive art-making group or a control group. The State-trait anxiety inventory was administered before and af...

as recent advancements in biology shows, the molecular machines specially proteins, rna and complex molecules play the main role of the so called cell functionality. it means a very big part of the system biology is concerned with the interactions of such molecular components. drug industries and research institutes are trying hard to better understand the concepts underlying these interactions...