1. introduction based on the general issues in cognitive linguistics regarding the role of different linguistic processes in meaning construction in a narrative text, introducing a new methodological analysis of meaning construction process in the emergent story of a text needs a methodological model. hence, the general purpose of this article is to introduce and apply a cognitive analytical mo...

Let C1 and C2 be algebraic plane curves in C such that the curves intersect in d1 · d2 points where d1, d2 are the degrees of the curves respectively. Oka and Sakamoto proved that π1(C \ C1 ∪ C2)) ∼= π1(C \ C1)× π1(C \ C2) [1]. In this paper we prove the converse of Oka and Sakamoto’s result for line arrangements. Let A1 and A2 be non-empty arrangements of lines in C such that π1(M(A1 ∪ A2)) ∼=...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I wish to express my sincere appreciation to my thesis advisor, Professor Magnus Egerstedt, for his guidance, patience, and support. I am also specially grateful to Professor Edward W. Kamen for his support and encouragement early on in my PhD studies, as my first advisor. I also wish to thank Professors Erik I. Verriest and Yorai Wardi for serving on my reading committee, and ...

literary adaptation is recasting literary books such as novels, short stories, or even poems in a new form such as films, stage plays, or even video games. persian literature abounds with dramatic events. there are many fascinating narratives such as shahnameh of ferdowsi, khmseh of nezami, mathnavi of rumi, and tarikh-e beyhaghi of beyhaghi, which have the dramatic capacity of literary adaptat...

1. introduction since the early hegira centuries up to the contemporary era “one thousand and one nights” stories have been translated into arabic. during this period we have been confronted with a great many of the translators doing translation jobs from various source languages into different target languages, thus we are bearing witness to the imposition of variegated tastes and styles into ...

background : the goal of the present study was to develop and validate the persian version of the acceptable noise level (anl) test in normal, persian-speaking children aged 5-8 years. methods : this tool-making and non-experimental research was conducted in two stages. in the first stage the proper story was selected and recorded after evaluation of its content validity. in the second stage th...