this article examines the effect of philosophical mindset on the entrepreneurial tendencies of small and medium businesses’ managers. a correlational study was conducted by drawing on a descriptive design. the population included 361 managers of small and medium businesses in 9 provinces. the required information was gleaned through two questionnaires. finally, the obtained data was analyzed us...

It is not difficult to be charmed by an intelligent, glib talker. However, this could only be a few of the sociopathic tendencies of an individual. More correctly cited as a result of antisocial personality disorder, sociopaths are characterized by their utter disregard for the rights of others. They exude superficial charm that may easily attract others. However, within a short period of being...

This study describes the application of CCI (Control/Compensation Index) [3, 4] to a corpus of spontaneous Beijing Chinese. CCI is a modification of the PVI algorithm [8], devised to provide an improved representation of the rhythmic tendencies of natural languages. The CCI algorithm was previously applied to the modeling of Italian [3, 5]. The present findings refer to Beijing Chinese.

We describe a new model for the formal representation of the rhythmic tendencies of natural languages. The algorithm is a modification of PVI, proposed by Grabe and Low [10]. The model was tested on a fairly substantial corpus of Italian semispontaneous productions, and its outcome compared with that yielded by two well-known algorithms (Ramus [14] and PVI).

the present paper is looking for expressing one of the most important human's phenomenon: mourning; one of the types of the poetries which has a close relationship with humanistic, social and natural tendencies. the poets paid special attention to mourning since years ago as well as the contemporary era. the lebanese contemporary poets also paid special attention to the majesty of this gre...

Past studies have documented interpersonal benefits of natural environments. Across four studies, we tested the hypothesis that exposure to more beautiful nature, relative to less beautiful nature, increases prosocial behavior. Study 1 yielded correlational evidence indicating that participants prone to perceiving natural beauty reported greater prosocial tendencies, as measured by agreeablenes...