we investigate the growth of matter density perturbations as well as the generalized second law (gsl) of thermodynamics in the framework of f(r)-gravity. we consider a spatially flat frw universe filled with the pressureless matter and radiation which is enclosed by the dynamical apparent horizon with the hawking temperature. for some viable f(r) models containing the starobinsky, hu-sawicki, exp...

instrument of domination. Each metaphor highlights other aspects of organizational life (see Figure 4.1.). For further analysis, the metaphors can be grouped into three groups: the machine group, the organism group, and the mind group. The machine group only contains the machine metaphor (Paragraph 4.3.). The organism group focuses on the dynamic relationship of organization and environment and...

We report our developments on metaphor and affect sensing for several metaphorical language phenomena including affects as external entities metaphor, food metaphor, animal metaphor, size metaphor, and anger metaphor. The metaphor and affect sensing component has been embedded in a conversational intelligent agent interacting with human users under loose scenarios. Evaluation for the detection ...

black humor plays a crucial role in fulfilling langston hughes's anti-racist purposes as an integral notionin his poetry. accordingly, translation(s) of his poetry are to benefit from the same indexes onthe basis of equivalent effect principle. on this account, 33 black-humor-rich poems of hughes, translatedby ahmad shamloo, yaghma golruee and hassan fayyad, were selected to be analyzed co...

gilles fauconnier and mark turner have considered the issue of conceptual metaphor as a special case of more general and comprehensive matter. this vast matter is the analysis of mind system mechanism when it exposes to conceptual domains. to describe such a process, fauconnier and turner use the term of mental or conceptual space. they believe that in order to understand much of human thought ...

This paper talks about the relationship between conceptual metaphor and semantic motivation of English and Chinese idioms from three aspects, namely, structural metaphor, orientation metaphor and ontological metaphor. Based on that, the author puts forward applying conceptual metaphor theory to English and Chinese idiom teaching.