the present study attempted the relative effect of explicit teaching of textual metadiscourse markers on esap reading comprehension performance of iranian university students through an awareness raising experiment. a sixty-item multiple choice esap reading comprehension test of accounting was developed and validated to act as the pre-test and post-test. the test included items for assessing sp...

This paper proposes a general probabilistic setting that formalizes the notion of textual entailment. In addition we describe a concrete model for lexical entailment based on web co-occurrence statistics in a bag of words representation.

this bipartite paper examines the function of tasrif in the quranic story of creation in the light of halliday's textual meta-function. first, the quranic concept of tasrif as a field in elm-al maani (semantics of syntax), and its relation to systemic linguistics is introduced and reviewed. then, through review of literature, it is referred to givenness hierarchy, empathy degree, point of ...

This paper proposes a multivariate extension of the equilibrium pricing transforms for pricing general financial and insurance risks. The multivariate Esscher and Wang transforms are derived from Bühlmann’s equilibrium pricing model (1980) under some assumptions on the aggregate risk. It is shown that the Esscher and Wang transforms coincide with each other when the underlying risks are normall...

We model the idea that when consumers search for products, they first visit the firms which advertise more, or the firms whose advertising is more salient. Equilibrium prices and advertising efforts are increasing in consumer search costs. By contrast, equilibrium profits are nonmonotonic in search costs so firms are not necessarily better off if search costs rise. In our model, firms are engag...

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