Phonetics attempts to describe and understand how speech is produced and perceived; phonology attempts to understand the patterning—in general, the behavior—of speech sounds in particular languages and in all languages. Is phonetics part of phonology? This straightforward question has received various answers at different points in the history of linguistics. In this paper I attempt to document...

background: positive attitude leads to a more successfully implementation of a change. we investigated the effect of attitudes of stakeholders toward a program on their prioritization of the program components for selecting the key question of a theory-driven evaluation with concept mapping method. materials and methods: during a brainstorming session, stated statements defined the program comp...

In Crisp environment, the notion of cyclic group on a set is well known. We study an extension of this classical notion to the Mfuzzy sets to define the concept of Mcyclic fuzzy groups. By using these cyclic ,M-fuzzy groups, we then define cyclic M-fuzzy group family and investigate its structure properties with applications. 2000AMS Subject classification: 08A72 , 20N25, 03E72, 94D05

Although questions about social cohesion lie at the core of our discipline, definitions are often vague and difficult to operationalize. Here research on social cohesion and social embeddedness is linked by developing a concept of structural cohesion based on network node connectivity. Structural cohesion is defined as the minimum number of actors who, if removed from a group, would disconnect ...