Across three experiments, we explore differences between relational categories—whose members share common relational patterns—and entity categories, whose members share common intrinsic properties. Specifically, we test the claim that relational concepts are more semantically mutable in context, and therefore less stable in memory, than entity concepts. We compared memory for entity nouns and r...

cough is a common reason for seeking medical advices for children. cough is a natural defense mechanism and can frequently occur in healthy children and can be increased by urban living and polluted cities. thus, previous history, cough exacerbations factors and quality of cough are very helpful in diagnosis of pathological cough. there are different definitions for chronic cough. in this artic...

in this work, the ionic liquid triethylamine-bonded sulfonic acid {[et3n–so3h]cl}, n,n-diethyl-n-sulfoethanammonium chloride was used as a green acidic homogeneous catalyst to synthesis of 3,4-dihydropyrimidin-2(1h)-ones and 3,4-dihydropyrimidin-2(1h)-thiones as two categories of heterocycles, from aldehyde, dicarbonyl compound and urea or thiourea throughout the one-pot three components cycloc...

OBJECTIVE To analyse rural-urban and intra-rural disparities in health status in Canada and to compare Canada with Australia with respect to such disparities. DESIGN Four indicators were used to show rural-urban and intra-rural differences in health status: (i) mortality due to circulatory diseases, (ii) mortality due to cancer, (iii) injury-related mortality; and (iv) all-cause mortality. Ru...

road network (rn) can affect patterns and distribution of land uses and covers. road network expansion has both direct and indirect impacts on land uses and covers changes. agricultural land conversions (alcs) are especially known as one of the main important types of land use changes. the purpose of this paper, in addition to estimation of the direct impact of rn expansion on alcs, is to evalu...