OBJECTIVES To design and implement a real world application using a terminology server to assist patients and physicians who use common language search terms to find specialist physicians with a particular clinical expertise. METHOD Terminology servers have been developed to help users encoding of information using complicated structured vocabulary during data entry tasks, such as recording c...

Reverse addressing is an interesting realization of kinship terms in interactive, face to face communication. This descriptive study was proposed to examine the use of family address pronouns in Iran as a function of the classical sociological parameters of age, sex, and social distance. It investigated various aspects of reverse addressing as a vernacular phenomenon. Data were reported from th...

Based on the interactive features of websites, researchers have distinguished between ‘religion online’ and ‘online religion’. Approaching online religious expression as ‘vernacular religion’ can transcend the distinction by focussing on the lived experience of believers. In this study, qualitative interviews and close textual analysis are deployed to locate four traits that define the ‘vernacu...

Energy conservation issues and environmental problems in recent years have increased interest in traditional architecture which is well known for its energy saving designs. This paper thoroughly investigates vernacular housing designs and evaluates on the aspect of building physics. A new research methodology which is adapted to the natural and social context of Vietnam was proposed and applied...

The worth and important Iranian tradition is still unknown in most of the World and there is much humanity life style and building teqniques, according to its natural sources such as Earthen Architecture in different parts of Iran such as Yazd City, as “The World First Adobe”. Having a highly developed technology make these vernacular buildings still alive, by using an incredible use of natural...

Much of philosophical logic and all of philosophy of language make empirical claims about the vernacular natural language. They presume semantics under which ‘and’ and ‘or’ are related by the dually paired distributive and absorption laws. However, at least one of each pair of laws fails in the vernacular. ‘Implicature’-based auxiliary theories associated with the programme of H.P. Grice do not...