Current techniques for validating and verifying program changes often consider the entire program, even for small changes, leading to enormous V&V costs over a program’s lifetime. This is due, in large part, to the use of syntactic program differencing techniques which are necessarily imprecise. Building on recent advances in symbolic execution of heap manipulating programs, in this paper, we d...

The current study was carried out to investigate the functions of the ritual speech act of ‘ya Allah’ (literally meaning ‘O God’) employed by Iranians in social interactions. To this end, sixty-two Persian native speakers of different age groups, ranging from 35 to 85, of both genders were observed in 250 natural situations such as daily interactions, gatherings, public or private places and lo...

protein aggregation and precipitation is associated with many debilitating diseases including alzheimer's, parkinson's, and light-chain amyloidosis. β-casein, a member of the casein family, has been demonstrated to exhibit chaperone-like activity to protect protein form aggregation. hofmeister salts (lyotropice series) are a class of ions which have an effect on the solubility and also the stab...

Previous research suggests that language-training procedures for children with autism might be enhanced following an assessment of conditions that evoke emerging verbal behavior. The present investigation examined a methodology to teach recognizable mands based on environmental variables known to evoke participants' idiosyncratic communicative responses in the natural environment. An alternatin...

In research writing, one of the challenging questions is about extent to which methods need be succinctly summarised in introductory sections. To answer this intriguing question, Swales’ (2004) genre-based analytical framework was used examine frequencies method summaries (MSs) article introductions (RAIs) two major social science disciplines, namely Ethnic Studies (ES) and Industrial Relations...

The 1840s saw the creation of weekly illustrated newsmagazines in several European countries, with titles like Illustrated London News , L'Illustration and Illustrirte Zeitung . This article questions common assumption that these influential periodicals contributed to modern news time primarily by speeding up consumption visual information through rapidly produced consumed eyewitness accounts. ...

The purpose of this study was to demonstrate derived manding skills in 2 adults with severe developmental disabilities and language deficits by contriving transitive conditioned establishing operations. Specifically, we evaluated whether a history of reinforced conditional discrimination learning would ultimately result in a derived mand repertoire, in which participants manded for items that w...

Abstract We develop a novel argument scheme tailored to debates surrounding public votes on state action. It can be used propose reasons for voting “yes” or “no” and allows natural reconstructions of such debates. These are particular use voters trying weigh the pros cons proposed The proposing helps answering two questions: What changes will action bring with it? And these good not? Using sche...