The complexity and ambiguity of Utopia make it a disputed concept in the academic field, resulting an increasing need to redefine it. From perspective Cognitive-schematic theory, could be defined as adaptive mechanism triggered by lack sense security. Such is effect cognitive-affective schema within which individual construct idealized time-space, social relations, identity alternative values. ...

This study was designed to investigate the effects of gender and Schema-based pre-reading activities on the Iranian EFL learners’ reading comprehension. The sample consisted of 60 male and female students studying at second-grade high school in Abhar city. Two reading passages (“Charles Dickens and the Little Children”, and “Hic, Hic, Hic”) were randomly selected from second-grade English textb...

Abstract There is a growing interest to introduce energy‐saving algorithms which balance energy efficiency with residents’ comfortability into building management system (BEMS). However, the following issues hinder penetration of markets: difficulties both in embedding BEMS, and turning suitably fit varieties installed equipment each building. In this paper, A BEMS on micro‐service architecture...

The analysis of damping phenomena that occur in many physics and engineering problems, such as fluid dynamics, kinetic theory and semiconductors, is of particular interest. For this kind of problems, one needs accurate and stable approximate solutions even on large time intervals. These latter can be obtained reformulating time-dependent problems modeled by partial differential equations (PDEs)...

The purpose of this study was to perform a construct validity assessment of Kendzierski's exercise self-schema theory questionnaire using objective measures of health-related physical fitness. This study tested the hypothesis that individuals with an exercise self-schema would possess significantly greater physical fitness than those who did not across three domains of health-related physical f...

This study reports the findings of 6 focus groups conducted with male and female managers working in information technology (IT) at three different companies. The views the managers shared regarding the barriers that men who work in IT face that their female counterparts do not are presented. The themes which emerged in the analysis are viewed through the lens of gender schema theory. In this s...

To analyze and evaluate textbooks, researchers have either proposed scales and checklists to be filled by teachers and learners or conducted qualitative investigations of the match between SLA theories and textbook activities. This study, however, employs the microstructural approach of schema theory to scrutinize the reading passages of “Mosaic 1 Reading”. To this end, 17 passages of the textb...

T-cell immunoglobulin and mucin domain 3 (Tim-3) ligates galectin-9 (Gal-9); this process, resulting in the inhibition of Th1 responses and in the apoptosis of antigen-specific cells, is hampered by binding of the molecular adaptor human leukocyte antigen B (HLA-B)-associated transcript 3 (Bat3) to the intracellular tail of Tim-3. Apoptosis of myelin basic protein (MBP)-specific T lymphocytes c...