A Feast for the Open Mind

Somatization—a Plea for an Open Mind

Of late the concept of somatization is receiving great attention. Traditionally considered as the physician's bane and as one of the persistent problems of medical discipline , it b a commonly encountered clinical phenomenon both in psychiatric as well as non-psychiatric medical settings all over the world. In our own country a significant proportion of the precious and scarce medical resources...

A HYBRID ALGORITHM FOR THE OPEN VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEM

The open vehicle routing problem (OVRP) is a variance of the vehicle routing problem (VRP) that has a unique character which is its open path form. This means that the vehicles are not required to return to the depot after completing service. Because this problem belongs to the NP-hard problems, many metaheuristic approaches like the ant colony optimization (ACO) have been used to solve OVRP in...

A moveable feast.

A Kids' Open Mind Common Sense

This thesis explores whether children can be a reliable resource for adding commonsense knowledge to the Open Mind Common Sense database. To gather commonsense information from children, we have created a game based on an existing commonsense game called Verbosity, in which participants are asked to describe and guess different nouns. We have derived several nouns from a corpus drawn from readi...

developing a pattern based on speech acts and language functions for developing materials for the course “ the study of islamic texts translation”

هدف پژوهش حاضر ارائه ی الگویی بر اساس کنش گفتار و کارکرد زبان برای تدوین مطالب درس "بررسی آثار ترجمه شده ی اسلامی" می باشد. در الگوی جدید، جهت تدوین مطالب بهتر و جذاب تر، بر خلاف کتاب-های موجود، از مدل های سطوح گفتارِ آستین (1962)، گروه بندی عملکردهای گفتارِ سرل (1976) و کارکرد زبانیِ هالیدی (1978) بهره جسته شده است. برای این منظور، 57 آیه ی شریفه، به صورت تصادفی از بخش-های مختلف قرآن انتخاب گردید...