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SISTER: A SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONIST SIMULATION OF TRADE AND EMERGENT ROLES Deborah Vakas Duong George Mason University, 2004 Thesis Director: John Grefenstette SISTER, a Symbolic Interactionist Simulation of Trade and Emergent Roles, captures the fundamental social process by which macro level roles emerge from micro level symbolic interaction. SISTER may be used for the computational social scie...

A review of the literature on the prevalence of craniomandibular dysfunction in children and adolescents is presented. A high prevalence of dysfunction was reported in both selected and nonselected populations. The selected populations referred to samples which were not representative of the entire population. The most common symptom was found to be muscle tenderness followed by those of headac...

Campaigns against environmental issues are now being voiced more and more, one of which is the problem waste due to packaging. The packaging process uses organic materials, mainly producing that can pollute environment. Packaging has been done by community through system storing dish ingredients. Consumerist societies appear as a result consuming signs, any signs visually greatly affect target ...

Symbolic search solves state space problems consisting of an initial state, a set of goal states, and a set of actions using a succinct representation for state sets. The approach lessens the costs associated with the exponential memory requirements for the state sets involved as problem sizes get bigger. Symbolic search has been associated with the term planning via model checking (Giunchiglia...

background & objectives: streptozotocin (stz) is used for induction of type-1 diabetes mellitus in animal models. its beta-cytotoxic action results in sudden release of insulin leading to severe hypoglycaemia and even mortality. however, its sensitivity varies with species. present investigation was aimed at studying stz induced acute clinical effects in rabbits. methods: streptozotocin@ 65...

we need sociology theories, for that understand of sociology and politic problems. french sociologist pierre bourdieu's theory practice and symbolic power are our best resource; for understanding social and political fields. this article reviews the language and symbolic power; indicating its function in social and political fields. we need sociology theories, for that understand of sociol...

this article, in an onomastic framework, is based in the semiotics of characters’ names, and tries to study the names of the dramatic characters’ names according to the different references introduced by c. s. pierce such as iconic, indexical and symbolic references.since the knowledge of onomastics is one of the analytical means with respect to knowing the literary- dramatic characters in the ...