greimas and other semioticians of the paris school believe that reality is always illusive and that the factors affecting the formation of a narrative are always ambiguous. based on this view, a narrative is always a simulation of reality. based on greimas' actants model, this paper presents an analysis of two stories from tarikh-e beyhaghi, with the aim of revealing two types of narratives; th...

background and aims. dental practitioners have numerous methods to control anxiety and pain in children, and distracting the child appears to be the most common technique used for behavior management during dental procedures. the aim of the present study was to evaluate the influence of using virtual reality eyeglasses on severity of pain and anxiety during dental procedures in pediatric patien...

the present research aims to compare the impact of group consultation on the basis of two approaches of reality therapy and feminism over the identity changes of householder women. statistical society has been the whole community of householder women who receive support from imam khomeini relief committee in fifth district of tehran, which was randomly selected. research tool has been indigenou...

many results were proved on the structure of finite groups with some‎ ‎restrictions on their real elements and on their conjugacy classes‎. ‎we‎ ‎generalize a few of these to some classes of infinite groups‎. ‎we study groups in which real elements are central‎, ‎groups in which real elements are $2$-elements‎, ‎groups in which all non-trivial classes have the same finite size and $fc$-groups w...

Students often ask why they should learn or where would use this knowledge when learning. Real-life experiences make learning more meaningful for the students. Thus, environments students could acquire real-life are important. However, due to student profile, crowded classes, inadequate course hours, technological advances, natural disasters, etc., conventional instruction methods not meet requ...

This paper presents our novel concept Outdoor Virtual Reality. By using outdoor augmented reality techniques we propose to build very wide area virtual reality systems, outdoor virtual reality. The concept of outdoor virtual reality is compared and contrasted to traditional definitions of augmented reality and virtual reality. We present our flexible Tinmith-evo5 software architecture as a plat...

The fundamental belief in Sikhism is that God exists not merely as an idea or concept, but as a real entity. God is indescribable, yet knowable and perceivable to anyone who is prepared to dedicate the time and energy to become perceptive to His persona. The Gurus never spoke about proofs of the existence of God. For them, He is too real, and something obvious does not require any logical proof...