The growth of technological innovations, internet developments, and their (web) applications has raised a definite issue on retaining the web interface quite understandable. Moreover, a need is also being felt on developing suitable and coherent guidelines for designing interface to swell the user interpretability of web signs. These design principles are semiotics by nature and semiotics is th...

To what extent is semiotics an appropriate model for understanding material culture meaning? The answer to this question, of course, depends upon the kinds of semiotics that one is talking about. In our article we argue that Saussurean and post-Saussurean approaches favored by some Postprocessualists are incomplete and advocate an alternative approach inspired by the ‘other father’ of semiotics...

If an ‘ideology’, in its broadest sense, is ‘a system of ideas’, semiotics, the study of sign systems, is predestined to make essential contributions to the study of ideologies. The semiotic approach to the study of ideology begins with an investigation of the concept itself, which has changed considerably in the course of its history. Theoretical semiotics has studied signs of ideologies and i...

abstract:the paper begins by noting that proposals involving significant developments in the regional tradearchitecture are being developed within regional processes that in some cases are simultaneouslypursuing other dimensions of regional economic integration: monetary and financial cooperation inthe case of asean + 3, and the establishment of a common market in the case of asean. at leastthr...

abstract background: transcranial doppler ultrasonography results have not been previously studied in among iranian sickle cell anemia patients. the present study was performed to evaluate the pattern of intracranial flow velocities among iranian children with sickle cell anemia and the hematological parameters that can affect the time-averaged mean of maximum velocity in major intracranial art...

non-hodgkin lymphoma is very uncommon in infancy and skin as the primary site of involvement in non-hodgkin lymphoma is rarely encountered. we describe a 10-month-old infant with t-cell non-hodgkin lymphoma who presented with multiple skin nodules as the predominant feature of her disease. the clinical manifestations, treatment strategy and disease outcome are reviewed. key words: non-hodgkin l...

â  â  â  â â â  methods of speakers' effects on the audience â  â nasrollah shameli * â  fariba hosayni ** â â â  abstract â  this article is focused on four issues. the first issue is related to the speaker's external appearance including the beauty of face, the power of his voice, moves and signals by hand, the stick and eyebrow as well as the height. such characteristics could have...