Learning Model Based On Democratic Life

mortality forecasting based on lee-carter model

over the past decades a number of approaches have been applied for forecasting mortality. in 1992, a new method for long-run forecast of the level and age pattern of mortality was published by lee and carter. this method was welcomed by many authors so it was extended through a wider class of generalized, parametric and nonlinear model. this model represents one of the most influential recent d...

the effect of lexically based language teaching (lblt) on vocabulary learning among iranian pre-university students

هدف پژوهش حاضر بررسی تاثیر روش تدریس واژگانی (واژه-محور) بر یادگیری لغات در بین دانش آموزان دوره پیش دانشگاهی است. بدین منظور دو گروه از دانش آموزان دوره پیش دانشگاهی (شصت نفر) که در سال تحصیلی 1389 در شهرستان نور آباد استان لرستان مشغول به تحصیل بودند انتخاب شده و به صورت قراردادی گروه آزمایش و گواه در نظر گرفته شدند. در ابتدا به منظور اطمینان یافتن از میزان همگن بودن دو گروه از دانش واژگان، آ...

Democratic Urban Streets Design Guideline Codifications (Based on Qualitative Democratic Urban Spaces Design Norms)

GENERALIZED FLEXIBILITY-BASED MODEL UPDATING APPROACH VIA DEMOCRATIC PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM FOR STRUCTURAL DAMAGE PROGNOSIS

This paper presents a new model updating approach for structural damage localization and quantification. Based on the Modal Assurance Criterion (MAC), a new damage-sensitive cost function is introduced by employing the main diagonal and anti-diagonal members of the calculated Generalized Flexibility Matrix (GFM) for the monitored structure and its analytical model. Then, ...

1 Anxiety in Democratic Life

Emotions matter in politics – enthusiastic supporters return politicians to office, angry citizens march in the streets, a fearful public demands protection from the government. Yet, in much of Western political thought, emotions are either ignored or derided as destructive to democracy. Until recently, scholarship in political science paid little sustained attention to how emotions such as anx...