characters were once common place. A look at early computer games from the late 1970's and early 1980's will contend to this. Such a character allows the viewer to almost see anything they like within the abstract design. While this type of character may have limitations to the scenarios that may be contained within. The contexts in which such a character might thrive could potentially generate...

H. P. Grice pioneered the study of conversational logic and put forward classic theory Conversational Implicature Cooperative Principle. Completely adhering to Principle or deliberately violating it will lead Implicature. In The Great Gatsby, main characters, such as Gatsby Daisy, tactically violate abide by relevant maxims in their communication, thus generating expressing true feelings. At sa...

Imitation is ubiquitous in positive social interactions. For adult and child observers, it also supports inferences about the participants in such interactions and their social relationships, but the origins of these inferences are obscure. Do infants attach social significance to this form of interaction? Here we test 4to 5.5-month-old infants’ interpretation of imitation, asking if the imitat...

As people experience narratives, they often behave as if they are participants in the narrative world. This talk embraces that claim to develop a participatory perspective on readers’ and viewers’ narrative experiences. This perspective asserts, for example, that readers encode participatory responses as reactions to characters’ utterances and actions. The talk will review three areas of empiri...

Let E be an elliptic curve over Q with complex multiplication by the ring of integers of an imaginary quadratic eld. Let be the Hecke character associated to E by the theory of complex multiplication. Let be the complex conjugate character of. For a pair of integers k and j, deene the Hecke character ' = '(k; j) = k j. Let p be a prime where E has good, ordinary reduction. Let p be a xed prime ...

This paper puts forward the view that the life-cycle model of system development has been allowed to make the transition from a useful intellectual tool for discussing specific aspects of the process to a definitive statement of what the process actually “is”. We argue that this hinders the discussion of Requirements Engineering in fundamental ways, and that challenges to the supremacy of this ...

of their peaceful island, which both threatened their ageing industrial supremacy and recalled to them the restive barbarians at the peripheries of their far-flung empire. Pick shows convincingly how British doctors and writers alike used a language which enabled them to deny simultaneously the existence of degeneration in their land (and therefore its cure by political means) yet identify and ...

The inclusion of pharmacists in the healthcare system of a developing country like Pakistan has always been a subject of debate among the healthcare professionals (HCPs), especially physicians, who have long ruled the healthcare system alone and who have had a long-held position of supremacy. The common argument against the inclusion of pharmacists is the dynamics of the healthcare system, and ...

selection of superior chance seedling genotypes is an important task in pear breeding programs. this research was carried out in order to explore and evaluate some of european pear (pyrus communis l.) chance seedling genotypes that are primarily used as rootstock for the asian pear (pyrus serotina rehd.) in tarbiat modares university (tmu) asian pear collection orchard. after four years visual ...