PICTS AND CALEDONES IN THE NINTH CENTURY

the implied reader in 18th century literary criticism

this thesis is going to delineate the concept of the reader as implied in 18th century literary theory; based on the study of the major reader oriented elements of criticism of the age-taste, the sublime, and aesthetic pleasure-its aim is to explain what sott of reader is implied and what kind of response on the part of the reader is proposed in 18th century english literary theory and aestheti...

Vocabularies of Grief and Consolation in Ninth-Century Francia

factors and consequences of the spread of the black death (great plague of the middle ages) in iran (eighth and ninth century ah / fourteenth and fifteenth century ad)

in the world history, from ancient times up to now, the plague has been followed by heavy casualties on human societies and social order. one of the deadliest plagues is the great plague of the middle ages, or so-called black death. this plague, in the eighth and ninth ah (fourteenth and fifteenth century ad) swept over some large areas of asia, especially the middle east, as well as europe, an...

the relationship between learners critical thinking ability and their performance in the reading sections of the tofel and ielts test

the study reflected in this thesis aims at finding out relationships between critical thinking (ct), and the reading sections of tofel and ielts tests. the study tries to find any relationships between the ct ability of students and their performance on reading tests of tofel and academic ielts. however, no research has ever been conducted to investigate the relationship between ct and the read...

The Error Coding Method and PICTs

A new family of plug-in classi cation techniques has recently been developed in the statistics and machine learning literature. A plug-in classi cation technique (PICT) is a method that takes a standard classi er (such as LDA or TREES) and plugs it into an algorithm to produce a new classi er. The standard classi er is known as the Base Classi er. These methods often produce large improvements ...