The present study was conducted to examine psychophysiological differences in arousability among individuals who display impulsive aggressive outbursts. Amplitude and latency for the mid-latency evoked potentials (P1, N1 and P2) were obtained at scalp electrode sites. The evoking stimuli were three intensities (low, medium, high) of photic stimulation. Compared to non-aggressive controls, impul...

Investigating the “knowing”, a module of the KARDS model proposed by Kumaravadivelu (2012) for teacher education, of Iranian teachers of learner autonomy, this study is an attempt to illuminate some of the yet unexplored areas of teachers’ various types of knowledge of learner autonomy. Furthermore, it attempts to illustrate how Iranian Non-EFL teachers’ knowing affects their practices with reg...

this paper examines the theoretical rationales and practical aspects of task-based language teaching (tblt) with particular reference to research findings in efl/esl contexts. the definitional scope of the term ‘task’, polarizations in terms of task vs. non-task, and its relation to different language teaching approaches have engendered conceptual and methodological ambiguities.  moreover, fact...

this study investigated the effect of applying the dynamic system theory (dst) and cognitive linguistics (cl) insights into grammar instruction on efl learners’ learning of english prepositions and learner autonomy. sixty iranian efl learners at the lower-intermediate level of language proficiency were randomly assigned to 1 experimental and 1 control group. the 2 groups filled out an autonomy ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the nucleus accumbens (NA) is explored as a treatment for refractory psychiatric disorders, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), depressive disorder (MDD), and substance use disorder (SUD). A common feature of some of these disorders is pathological impulsivity. Here, the effects of NAcore DBS on impulsive choice and impulsive action, two distinct forms o...

This study attempted to investigate the relationship among learning strategy, autonomy and language proficiency of Chinese university EFL students. To achieve this objective, purposive sampling and cluster sampling methods were used to select 422 non-English major students as participants in three universities, Henan province, China. Oxford’s (1990) Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SIL...

Some sufficient conditions for asymptotic stability of impulsive control systems with impulses at fixed times were recently presented. In this note, we derive some less conservative conditions for asymptotic stability of such impulsive control systems and the results are used to design impulsive control for a class of nonlinear systems. The class of nonlinear systems considered is also enlarged.

In this paper, we proposed a method for computing the approximate solution for impulsive fuzzy differential equations by utilizing the existing results in impulsive differential equations and fuzzy differential equations. The numerical solutions are investigated since many impulsive differential equations cannot be solved analytically or their solving is complicated. The solutions are then comp...

The paper studies the exponential lag synchronization of a class of delayed chaotic neural networks with impulsive effects via the unidirectional linear coupling. Some sufficient conditions are derived by establishing impulsive differential delay inequality and using M-matrix theory. An illustrative example is also provided to show the effectiveness and feasibility of the impulsive control method.

This paper studies discrete impulsive hybrid systems. The comparison principle and uniform stability are established for such hybrid systems. Moreover, the attraction region is estimated. As applications, the comparison principle is used to study the robust stability problem for linear interval discrete impulsive hybrid systems and a class of nonlinear uncertain discrete impulsive hybrid systems.