The present paper focused on the sociocultural explanations of rhetorical differences between English and Persian and was based on the contrastive genre analysis of Applied Linguistics research article abstracts in these two languages. The evolutionary nature of research article abstracts was also investigated from 1985 to 2005, in three stages, with a time interval of 10 years. Seventy eight r...

In this position paper we present S-MOVE (Smart and Social Move), a social innovation project funded by MIUR (Italian Ministry of Education, Research and University). SMOVE is based on a new conception of urban community, that allows citizens to share data and decisions in a smart and innovative way. In order to implement this new vision of urban mobility, called smart mobility, a deep integrat...

In the last lecture, we analyzed the Move-To-Front heuristic for searching in a self-organizing linkedlist. In particular, we showed that Move-To-Front is both statically and dynamically optimal (as good as any dynamic list) up to a factor of 2, provided we work under Sleator & Tarjan’s cost model. We also introduced an omniscient algorithm called Order-By-Next-Request [Mun00], and proved that ...

Spectral over-smoothing is still observable in the converted spectral envelope when linear multivariate regression (LMR) based spectrum mapping is adopted to convert voice. Therefore, in this paper, we study to place a histogram-equalization (HEQ) module immediately before LMR based mapping and to place a target frame selection (TFS) module immediately after LMR based mapping. These two modules...

In this article we study the amortized efficiency of the “move-to-front” and similar rules for dynamically maintaining a linear list. Under the assumption that accessing the i th element from the front of the list takes e(i) time, we show that move-to-front is within a constant factor of optimum among a wide class of list maintenance rules. Other natural heuristics, such as the transpose and fr...

Semaphorins were discovered 11 years ago as molecular cues for axon guidance that are conserved from invertebrates to humans. More than 20 semaphorin genes have been identified in mammals and their protein products are now known to be involved in a range of processes from the guidance of cell migration to the regulation of the immune response, angiogenesis and cancer. Plexins, either alone or i...