In social surveys, questions are often asked as to what subjects think people in various occupations actually earn and what they think these people should earn. Responses to these questions figure prominently in sociological studies on legitimacy of inequality and perceptions of justice. In the present study, responses to these questions are employed as well, but the major focus is on investiga...

This article provides a comprehensive conceptual analysis of information. It begins with folk notion that information is tripartite phenomenon: something carried by signals about for some use. suggests has three main aspects: structural, referential, and normative. I analyze the individually necessary jointly sufficient conditions defining these aspects consider formal theories relating to each...

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Querying databases with incomplete or inconsistent content remains a broad and difficult problem. In this work, we study how to improve aggregations computed on databases with referential errors in the context of database integration, where each source database has different tables, columns with similar content across multiple databases, but different referential integrity constraints. Thus, a ...

the present study is an attempt to find out cultural exophoric references in four common english textbooks, namely touch stone, american file, top notch, and total english series used at iranian english language institutes and to compare the frequency of occurrence of such references in these coursebooks. in order to compare cultural exophoric references used in these coursebooks, the researche...

Teacher-led questions not only guide meaning-making interactions but they also scaffold students’ learning, and this is especially important in English-medium instruction (EMI). Due to the scant literature on topic higher education, article analyses what type of EMI history lecturers pose whether are subject individual differences. The study based 12 two-hour lectures whose transcriptions were ...

This article focuses on Clitic Left Dislocation of XPs in French and Greek. By examining the interpretive properties these XPs, primarily reconstruction properties, it concludes that they have been displaced from their first merge position via movement into (sometimes) a succession hierarchically organized middle-field positions above vP then T to left periphery standard A or A-bar steps (no mi...