the endurance of any type of architecture is contingent upon the study of the characteristics that led to its formation. two general approaches have been adopted to study and analyze the iranian architecture. a number of scholars have taken a historical approach, while others have merely considered a genre- based approach. making use of many historical studies, these scholars have attempted to ...

OBJECTIVES This article reports comparisons of the Giessen Test (GT) with the NEO-Five-Factor-Inventory (NEO-FFI) based on a dimensional as well as on a typological approach. METHOD Data were collected from 1673 subjects (aged between 18 and 96 years) constituting a representative sample of the German population. RESULTS The results indicate only moderate agreement (ranging from .25 to .61)...

Proceeding from the assumption that all languages are equally complex, there exists a corollary, widely held but poorly documented, herein referred to as the negative correlation hypothesis. It states: if one component of language is simplified then another must be elaborated. Here, this assumption is reformulated in terms of a scientific hypothesis and subjected to statistical analysis. Thirty...

In many domains (marketing, social sciences, etc.) the variables of interest are often not directly observable. Complex causal relationships between such latent variables may be modeled by means of Structural Equation Models (SEM). Two different methodologies exist for the estimation of such models: SEM-ML (Maximum Likelihood Approach to Structural Equation Models), also known as LISREL (Linear...

A significant problem for practical psychologists is development of own methods necessary particular and special cases character research. This requires technologies creating psychological diagnostic tools that might help to extend, streamline show a complete picture the personality, as well reliable system validating designed instrumentation. Practical psychology needs set forth social mandate...

Abstract Inspired by earlier work on typological profiling of English Benedikt Szmrecsányi and Bernd Kortmann ([1], [2], [3]), this paper investigates the profiles English, Spanish, German, Slovak, applying Kortmann’s methodology calculating a SYNTHETICITY INDEX an ANALYTICITY based 1,000-word corpus samples. The results show that is replicable, confirm claims in literature about degrees analyt...