A Brief Introduction to Recent Chinese Studies on Sanskrit and Khotanese (Chiefly Buddhist) Literature

A brief introduction to quaternion matrices and linear algebra and on bounded groups of quaternion matrices

The division algebra of real quaternions, as the only noncommutative normed division real algebra up to isomorphism of normed algebras, is of great importance. In this note, first we present a brief introduction to quaternion matrices and quaternion linear algebra. This, among other things, will help us present the counterpart of a theorem of Herman Auerbach in the setting of quaternions. More ...

Prolegomenon to the Study of Medieval Chinese Buddhist Literature

An Introduction to Modern Chinese Female Literature

K e y w o r d s : Modern Female Literature, Female Writers, Writing Style, Aesthetic Scope 1 0 9 Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2003, pp. 109-122. © 2003 by the Sungkyunkwan University, The Academy of East Asian Studies * Professor at the Institute of Literature of Shandong University and graduated in 1959 from the Department of Chinese Language from the same University....

iranian english learners’ perception and personality: a dual approach to investigating influential factors on willingness to communicate

abstract previous studies on willingness to communicate (wtc) have shown the influence of many individual or situational factors on students’ tendency to engage in classroom communication, in which wtc has been viewed either at the trait-level or situational level. however, due to the complexity of the notion of willingness to communicate, the present study suggests that these two strands are ...

An Introduction to Natural Experiment Studies

در دو سخن سردبیری شماره‌های قبل به مطالعات مداخله‌ای (Interventional and/or experimental studies) [1] و مطالعات نیمه تجربی (studies Quasi-experiment) [2] پرداختیم. همان جا، به این نکته اشاره کردیم که برای اندازه‌گیری کارآیی یک دارو، واکسن، برنامه بهداشت عمومی و متغیرهای دیگری از این دست، مطالعات مداخله‌ای بهترین گزینه هستند. تقسیم تصادفی و کورسازی از مؤلفه‌های اساسی یک مطالعه مداخله‌ای است [1]....