Evolutionary game dynamics have been proposed as a mathematical framework for the cultural evolution of language and more specifically the evolution of vocabulary. This article discusses a model that is mutually exclusive in its underlying principals with some previously suggested models. The model describes how individuals in a population culturally acquire a vocabulary by actively participati...

Democracies considered advanced have legislation regulating lobbying activities as an important element in the representation of interest groups, but relationship these groups with State integrates elements corporate social responsibility. What has not been is how public servants view this regulation interested party. The present study observes perception Federal District Legislative Chamber em...

Critical Discourse Analysis uncovers the relationship between discourse, ideology, and power. This study investigated and analyzed contents, social relations, and subject positions in conversations of four popular advanced ELT textbooks. The findings indicated that for contents, giving/asking for information and interaction were outstandingly significant. Regarding social relations, friend was ...

This article summarizes and synthesizes my several papers on attribution theory (Kelley, 1967, 1971, 1972). Lest the reader incorrectly conclude that these writings define attribution theory, note must be made of other statements of the theory. These include, most importantly, Fritz Heider's (1958) book, The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations, which has played a central role in the orginatio...

Social networks have recently garnered considerable interest. With the intention of utilizing social networks for the Semantic Web, several studies have examined automatic extraction of social networks. However, most methods have addressed extraction of the strength of relations. Our goal is extracting the underlying relations between entities that are embedded in social networks. To this end, ...

ôbjective: to examine the relationship between psychological well-being and social solidarity of apartment residents in shahrekord, ïran. methods: â sample of 200 apartment dwellers was selected randomly. fessler social solidarity ïnventory and general health questionnaire were used to gather data. results: üsing partial correlation test and having controlled the effect of age, sex and educatio...