BACKGROUND Research suggests that the growing prevalence of obesity may be related to the influence of the health behaviours of peers. We look at clustering of exercise and eating behaviours amongst a previously unstudied group, young adults in Sweden. Previous research has mainly been conducted in the United States and Britain, countries that have relatively high rates of obesity. METHODS Us...

طبق چارچوب مشترک اروپا در رویکرد زبان های اروپایی، مهارت دستور زبان یکی از عناصر تشکیل دهنده مهارت ارتباطی است؛ مهارتی که هدفِ آموزش و یادگیری زبان در نظر گرفته می­شود. این مقاله به نقش دستور زبان در کلاس زبان فرانسه به عنوان زبان خارجی در ایران و نحوه تدریس آن در مِتد alterego می­پردازد. این مِتد از چند سال پیش تا کنون در ایران تدرِس می­شود؛ با این همه، همانند ساِیر متد­های یادگیری زبان فرانسه عاری...

Abstract This article proposes an approach to compare semantic networks using concept-centered sub-networks. A sub-network is defined as induced network whose vertex set consists of the given concept (ego) and all its adjacent concepts (alters) link links between ego alters (including alter-alter links). By looking at overlap indices we infer similarity underlying concepts. We cross-evaluate by...

Although internal dialogue and inner speech form essential part of communication, it has not been given much attention in studies of interaction and language. This article suggests that the basic unit of dialogical epistemology, the triad Ego-AlterObject/representation could be conceptually relevant to dialogical subjectivity. It proposes that internal dialogue involves different kinds of symbo...