The theory of cheap talk, evaluated as a model of language use, is shown to mismatch the reality of communication in five respects: real talk is conflict dampening, is more than assertion, is dear, is not literal, and is beholden to its medium. The linguistic theory of pragmatics is employed to demonstrate formally that every utterance creates a coordination game whose resolution reveals eviden...

BACKGROUND The chemical composition of aerosols and particle size distributions are the most significant factors affecting air quality. In particular, the exposure to finer particles can cause short and long-term effects on human health. In the present paper PM10 (particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter lower than 10 μm), CO, NOx (NO and NO2), Benzene and Toluene trends monitored in six mo...

Acceptance control charts (ACC), as an effective tool for monitoring highly capable processes, establish control limits based on specification limits when the fluctuation of the process mean is permitted or inevitable. For designing these charts by minimizing economic costs subject to statistical constraints, an economic-statistical model is developed in this paper. However, the parameters of s...

PURPOSE We aimed to determine the prognostic significance of computed tomography imaging parameters of unresectable primary renal tumor lesions, obtained at baseline and at first follow-up, on overall survival in naïve, unresectable metastatic renal cell carcinoma patients during first-line systemic therapy. MATERIALS AND METHODS Clinicopathological parameters of 56 patients treated between 2...

the oxidative coupling of methane (ocm) performance over na-w-mn/sio2 at elevated pressures has been simulated by adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system (anfis) using reaction data gathered in an isothermal fixed bed microreactor. in the designed neuro fuzzy models, three important parameters such as methane to oxygen ratio, gas hourly space velocity (ghsv), and reaction temperature were conside...

the effect of ph, different concentration of tween 80 and calcium ion on the stability of limonene-in-water emulsions stabilized by various concentration of sodium caseinate (2, 5 and 10%) was evaluated. to this end, emulsions were prepared by ultrasound and their quality attributes including size distribution, mean diameter of droplets, specific surface area and span number were studied as a r...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to assess vascular changes and blood flow abnormalities in the common carotid arteries of patients with head and neck cancers after external radiotherapy, using color Doppler ultrasonography. METHODS We studied 24 patients treated with external radiotherapy for various head and neck cancers. In order to study the acute effects of irradiation on common carotid...