this research is concerned with a concept called “um-ol-baab”, which has wide applications in syntax. this article attempts to clarify this concept and specify terms which are used to directly or indirectly refer to it. this has been done by examining the views and works of a good number of syntacticians. three subgroupings have been revealed :1) devices the structure of which are compatibl...

The anti-slide pile is one of the most used measures in landslide control globally. Following its application, various structures have been developed. In this paper, we analyze structure development process and extract two paths. One path aimed at improving applicability. second starts from an in-depth study pile–soil interactions. However, these paths share a single design concept: provides di...

The increasing awareness of the benefits of ontologies for information processing has lead to the creation of a number of large ontologies about real world domains. The size of these ontologies and their monolithic character cause serious problems in handling them. In other areas, e.g. software engineering, these problems are tackled by partitioning monolithic entities into sets of meaningful a...

The present study aims to analyze the dimensionality of physical self-concept through confirmatory factor analysis of the AFI questionnaire (Esnaola, 2005; Esnaola & Goñi, 2006) and to compare two models: a) a quadri-dimensional model in which physical self-concept is made up of the sub-domains ability, condition, attractiveness and strength, and, b) a three-factor model in which the items corr...

There is an increasing interest on application of concept lattices in the different information systems. The concept lattice may be used for representation of the concept generalisation structure generated from the underlying data set. The paper presents a modified lattice building algorithm where the generated concept nodes may contain not only the attributes of the children nodes but some oth...

Individuals attribute more psychological (e.g., forget) than biological (e.g., eat) or physical (e.g., be touched) properties to supernatural beings (Shtulman, 2008). It is unclear how those domains each contribute to an overall conception of a supernatural being (e.g., God). Undergraduate students (N = 341) responded to nine questions representing the three domains or factors (psychological, b...