this article aims to explore the role of the gender bias in the choice of address terms in some iranian contemporary stories. some address terms due to their gender distinctive functions refer either to men or women; however, as it has been observed the variability in the choice of some address forms or references are more or less due to the social status and values of the interactants in the t...

We present an ontology for managing the scientific and common names of birds. The ontology is based on the TaxMeOn metaontology model for biological names. The ontology is in use as an ontology service and it has been applied in a bird watching system. Biologists refer to organisms by using scientific names although most people use common (vernacular) names. Modeling and managing scientific and...

Hidden properties of social media users, such as their ethnicity, gender, and location, are often reflected in their observed attributes, such as their first and last names. Furthermore, users who communicate with each other often have similar hidden properties. We propose an algorithm that exploits these insights to cluster the observed attributes of hundreds of millions of Twitter users. Attr...

When searching for a target object, observers use an internal representation of the target's appearance as a search template. This study used naturalistic stimuli to examine the specificity of this template. Observers first learned several name-image pairs; they then participated in a search experiment in which the names served as cues and the images served as targets. To test whether the obser...

Abstract This article offers a reading of the “transcendental” character Alain Badiou’s and Giorgio Agamben’s ontologies. While neither Badiou nor Agamben are philosophers in Kantian sense, this argues that their respective projects ontology both recover aspects “classical” conception transcendentals. Not unlike how pre-modern conceived oneness, truth goodness as transcendental properties all t...

Shortwave infrared (SWIR) spectroscopy can be applied directly to analyze the mineral chemistry of raw or geologic materials. It provides diagnostic spectral characteristics of the chemical composition of minerals, information that is invaluable for the identification and quality control of such materials. The present study aims to investigate the potential of SWIR spectroscopy as an alternativ...