SUMMARY Diagnostic residual and partial residual plots are proposed to identify nonlinearity in covariates for generalized linear models. It is shown that these plots are complement each other in the detection of nonlinearity. In addition, a transformed additive model which allows the resulting residual and partial residual plots to be obtained through the standard least squares approach is pro...

â  a geographical dimension in the poetry of de’bil al- khozaee â  â  abdul rasoul ghaffari * â  â abstractâ in this article, we attempt to study de'bil al-khozaee's poetry. we find him a person who travelled a lot around the west and the east of islamic world. in his journey, he acquired knowledge, belles-letters, morals and also wealth. what is important for us in this research is...

The Plaut, McClelland, Seidenberg and Patterson (1996) connectionist model of reading was evaluated at two points early in its training against reading data collected from British children on two occasions during their first year of literacy instruction. First, the network’s non-word reading was poor relative to word reading when compared with the children. Second, the network made more non-lex...

abstractibn-nubatah is one of the poets of deterioration era who lived at this time so hispoetry has the trace of both the imitation and repetition of the poets of that time. heused a kind of poetic theme in his poems that lacks the privilege and typicality of agood poem because he imitated some poets like emre'al- qays, tarafah ibn al-a’bd,khansa, hassan ibn sabet al-ansary, ka’b ibn ...

Although most young children seem to master reading skills in the early grades of elementary school, many struggle with texts as they move through middle school and high school. Why do children who seem to be proficient readers in third grade have trouble comprehending texts in later grades? To answer this question, Nonie Lesaux describes what is known about reading development and instruction,...

In recent years, the Education for All movement has focused more intensely on the quality of education, rather than simply provision. Many recent and current education quality interventions focus on literacy, which is the core skill required for further academic success. Despite this focus on the quality of literacy instruction in developing countries, little rigorous research has been conducte...

â â â  poetic stories in ilia abu mazi’s poetic works â â â  sadeq fathi dehkordi * â  shlyr fathi ** â  abstract â  â  poetic story is a kind of art firmly connected to poetry and story and is a sign of restoration in arabic poetry furthermore, it is an artistic field for presenting poets' ability in putting poetry and tale together. this genre has included many current poetic works. ab...