This paper re-evaluates the scope of selected early bookkeeping texts, in order to address commonly held and well-documented misconceptions regarding the nature of those texts. Specifically, it reviews the content of Pacioli’s treatise of 1494, of Mellis (1588), Peele (1553) and Weddington (1567) to demonstrate that these texts were prepared by authors with an awareness of the commercial realit...

Attractive people are considered by others to have many positive qualities and in the case of social skills and intelligence, these attributions are often true. In internet dating, individuals with attractive profile photos are viewed more favorably overall, but no research has yet established whether they indeed have more positive qualities. We addressed this issue by having 50 women independe...

The extensive use of computer-based corpora for a range of language studies has led to the proliferation of the ways in which texts within an individual corpus are organised Basically, the organisation reflects the immediate needs of a group of well motivated users, like lexicographers or terminologists. This means that the subsequent generation of corpus users are forced to use a classificatio...

The World Wide Web offers a lot of information that has been provided by laypersons instead of experts or professional journalists. This raises the question how Internet users perceive credibility of online authors and which information on the source influences the users’ selection and processing of texts. Our study investigated the effect of selfreported expertise, community rating, and age of...

purpose: this study aimed to measure the information load of words in farsi scientific texts and determine the relationship between some properties of the words and information load of the texts based on shannon entropy. methodology: the study was conducted based on the content analysis of a number of 320 articles that were published in scientific-research iranian journals in 2009. and the arti...