With the increasing popularity of social networking sites, research has begun to investigate the implications for youth development, with concern for possible negative effects on their relationships and well-being. But for youth who feel somewhat marginalized, these sites could be important sources of social support. Accordingly, our study sought to examine the relations between sexual minority...

the arab literature undoubtedly was not a suitable position for the perfect philosophy in the past or in the contemporary era; but rays and glimmers of philosophy can be seen in their literature. except the philosophical sufism of hallaj and ibn arabi’s schools which were followed by jalal al din rumi and farid al din attar neishabouri in persian and arabic. the present article has studied the ...

nowadays, huge tendency to fashion and consumerism could be assumed as the origin of identitycrisis among women and in their houses. this phenomenon is like a veil between man and the fact of his human being. given that the physical properties of man-made environments (house) are influenced by human properties and, in return, have an important role in giving identity to their audience, identifi...

the aim of this study was to model the effect of athletic identity on sport orientation in athletes participating in 11th sport olympiad of male students in iran. 400 students were selected as the sample of this study from 2130 students of population. sport orientation questionnaire (soq, gill et al., 1988, α=0.87) and the athletic identity questionnaire (cieslak, 2004, α=0.82) were used. the s...

Social identity is a constant and permanent process that changes social situations based on individual experiences in these situations. Religious and ethnic identities are two dimensions of social identity that are of great importance in Iranian society. Due to the ethnic diversity in Iran and the proximity of ethnic cultures through migration, ethnic identity is noticeable. Religious identity ...

Despite considerable theoretical and computational work on coreference, deciding when two entities or events are identical is very difficult. In a project to build corpora containing coreference links between events, we have identified three levels of event identity (full, partial, and none). Event coreference annotation on two corpora was performed to validate the findings. 1 The Problem of Id...