A Tale of Three Cities. How to Generalize from Here?

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

An Architectural Tale of the Two Cities

A comparative study of the corresponding styles of Western and Iranian modern architecture has hardly ever been carried out in detail. This paper aims to sketch out an outline for such an investigation and to present a summary of empirical evidence accompanied by field observations to elaborate the ongoing trend of relationship between architectural styles in Iran and that of the West. This is ...

From Chicago to Budapest, a tale of two cities.

A Tale of Three Cities : Perceptual Charting for

Heterogeneity of perceptions is a neglected issue in market segmen-tation studies. Only recently parametric approaches toward modeling segmented perception-preference structures such as combined MDS and Latent Class procedures have been introduced. A completely diierent nonparametric method is based on topology-sensitive vector quantization (VQ) for consumers-by-brands-by-attributes data. It ma...

A Tale of Six Cities

ONE OF THE interesting aspects of teaching statistics to students from different disciplines is to observe their differing attitudes to the subject. We are probably all familiar with the mathematician who will calculate a veritable feast of summary statistics with immense (and often inappropriate) accuracy but cannot express in words what any of them actually means. I find the opposite problem ...