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this contrastive study, in the first place, examined the generic structure and, in the second place, explored the face theory proposed by arundale (2006) in 140 doctoral dissertation acknowledgments written by native speakers of persian (nsp) and native speakers of english (nse) in 7 disciplines representing soft sciences to find out what discourse genre components writers employ to articulate ...

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Abstract We explore social networks in accounting research. Our sample spans the 1996–2015 period and includes all research articles that were published Accounting Review, Journal of Research, Economics, Organizations Society, Review Studies, Contemporary Research. Employing network analysis, we delineate discuss structure scientific collaboration as it appears acknowledgments articles. identif...

In this paper we discuss an imporant aspect of human tutorial dialogue –the use of acknowledgments–and present a critique of earlier work on the use of acknowledgments in synthesizing tutorial dialogues for Intelligent Tutoring Systems (Evens et al, 1993). Our goal is to establish a more solid theoretical base for studying and synthesizing tutorial dialogues than what was used in the earlier wo...

based manipulation planning as a game with nature. Planning sequences of squeeze-grasps to orient and grasp polygonal objects. Grasping planar curved parts with a parallel-jaw gripper. We have considered the planar problem of determining the convex shape of a polygonal part from a sequence of measurements taken with a frictionless parallel-jaw gripper. We have derived both negative 25] and posi...