this paper compares the value relevance of book value and dividends versus book value and reported earnings. the main purpose of this study explains which of dividends, book value and earnings are more value relevance. thus, we have examined 98 firms of tehran stock exchange over a period 1377-1382. our methodology of examining the information content of various income statement and balance she...

This paper discusses the relevance of the discovery of mirror neurons in monkeys and of the mirror neuron system in humans to a neuroscientific account of primates' social cognition and its evolution. It is proposed that mirror neurons and the functional mechanism they underpin, embodied simulation, can ground within a unitary neurophysiological explanatory framework important aspects of human ...

Probabilistic methods are providing new explanatory approaches to fundamental cognitive science questions of howhumans structure, process and acquire language. This review examines probabilistic models defined over traditional symbolic structures. Language comprehension and production involve probabilistic inference in such models; and acquisition involves choosing the best model, given innate ...

Hellas Alive© is the product of joint effort between the Hellenic American Union (Greece) and the Academy of Electronic Media at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (U.S.A.). It comprises the “Virtual School” component, the “Virtual City” component, the “playspaces” component, and an external Support Feature. At its present phase, the project aims at teaching Modern Greek as a Second or Foreign La...

The goal of this paper is to present a particular type of lexicon, elaborated within a formal theory of natural language called Meaning-Text Theory (MTT). This theory puts strong emphasis on the development of highly structured lexica. Computational linguistics does of course recognize the importance of the lexicon in language processing. However, MTT probably goes further in this direction tha...

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Words in the explanatory dictionary have different meanings (senses) described using natural language definitions. If the definitions of two senses of the same word are too similar, it is difficult to grasp the difference and thus it is difficult to judge which of the two senses is intended in a particular contexts, especially when such a decision is to be made automatically as in the task of a...

Dein (2002) comments on our editorial on explanatory models (Bhui & Bhugra, 2002), but fails to apprehend the conceptual flaws in his assertions, promotes a complacent attitude to the challenges of cultural psychiatry, and is threatened by a patient’s explanatory model that differs from his own. Dein agrees with us that explanatory models are not stable, and are dynamic, complex, shifting entit...