The two ancient civilizations of Iran and India, due to their long-standing cultural, political and economic relations, have had a relative cognition of each other's identity, which has, over time, become more logical, complete, and at times symbolic. Undoubtedly, in order to understand the history of Iran and India in ancient times and how these two nations interacted, we must inevitably find ...

TRACES are what evaluators left behind—discoveries, records, tracks—which made marks on the profession of program evaluation. Published here are excerpts from our past (e.g., articles, passages from books, speeches) that show where we have been or affected where we are g(r)o(w)ing. Suggestions for inclusion should be sent to the Editor, along with rationale for their import. Photoco...

A procedure is described to gather corpora of academic writing from the web using BootCaT. The procedure uses terms distinctive of different registers and disciplines in COCA to locate and gather web pages containing them.

The study of paraconsistent reasoning with ontologies is especially important for the Semantic Web since knowledge is not always perfect within it. Quasi-classical semantics is proven to rationally draw more meaningful conclusions even from an inconsistent ontology with the stronger inference power of paraconsistent reasoning. In our previous work, we have conceived a quasi-classical framework ...

\Prose rhythm" is a widely observed but scarcely quantiied phenomenon. We describe an information-theoretic model for measuring the regularity of lexical stress in English texts, and use it in combination with trigram language models to demonstrate a relationship between the probability of word sequences in English and the amount of rhythm present in them. We nd that the stream of lexical stres...

An obvious prerequisite for both fixed and mobile computing is the ability to adapt (i) to different computing environments or (ii) to external changes occurred in their current computing environment. Otherwise the services are forced to be foreseen with everything they may possibly need during their operationallife time. This is neither desirable nor feasible, thereby hinting at the need for d...

this paper aims to explore the relationship between epic poetry and national self-consciousness and in particular study how shahnameh may be analyzed from this angle. what is the relationship between the shahnameh and the iranian national self-consciousness? what can one say about the iranian national self-consciousness on the basis of this text? what does the text reveal about the iranian iden...