contrastive rhetorical analysis as a way of understanding different ways through which writers from various cultural backgrounds shape their discourse was officially initiated by the works of kaplan (1966). this study tries to use the methodology to investigate the news reports in two american and iranian widely published newspapers. using the analytical methodologies of contrastive rhetoric an...

Most studies within the area of genre analysis, particularly those conducted in Iran, have exclusively used text analysis. While such investigations have led to important understandings of generic features of texts, it can be argued that incorporating interview data for triangulation can lead to better understanding of generic features of texts. Along this line, this paper reports the results o...

BACKGROUND While recent work emphasizes the multi-dimensionality of mobility, no current measure incorporates multiple domains of mobility. Using existing conceptual frameworks we identified four domains of mobility (physical, cognitive, social, transportation) to create a "Mobility Over Varied Environments Scale" (MOVES). We then assessed expected patterns of MOVES in the Canadian population. ...

this study aims at explaining informal internet-based chat format with respect to its genre and writing components and system. the researchers analyzed 53 chat samples which were produced by 53 iranian students in high intermediate and advanced levels of english in a private institute while chatting with foreigners. besides the genre analysis, the purposes why people all around the world chat o...

this comment argues that instead of worrying about the pros and cons of whistleblowing one should focus on the more general problem of the failure of upward communication around safety and quality problems and consider what leaders and managers must do to stimulate subordinates to communicate and reward such communication. the article analyzes why safety failures occur and introduces the concep...

Dear reader, This here is the third installment of the Fundamental Issues in Modelling, Verification and Evolution of Software (MoVES) newsletter. The goal of the newsletter is to highlight the work performed in the context of the project through the different workpackages. As with previous issues, this edition of the newsletter is divided in two parts, the first one focusing on the results ach...

T concept of dominance among nodes of a branch-and-bound tree, although known for a long time, is typically not exploited by general-purpose mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) codes. The starting point of our work was the general-purpose dominance procedure proposed in the 1980s by Fischetti and Toth, where the dominance test at a given node of the branch-and-bound tree consists of the (po...

Dear Reader, this edition of the MoVES newsletter is dedicated to Workpackage 6, focused on verification methods and tools, and presents results obtained by the University of Liège on that topic. This issue of the newsletter describes three recent results that cover different research topics in the field of verification. The first result, presented on p. 2, introduces an original method for ana...

How does it work and what is it for? Two explanations have been offered. Yarrow et al. hypothesized that it serves to create perceptual continuity across saccadic eye movements during which visual sensitivity is largely reduced, mainly due to saccadic suppression. Rose’s and Summers’ demonstration of chronostasis without eye movements, however, raises a question about this. The time perception ...