A key strength of latent curve analysis (LCA) is the ability to model individual variability in rates of change as a function of 1 or more explanatory variables. The measurement of time plays a critical role because the explanatory variables multiplicatively interact with time in the prediction of the repeated measures. However, this interaction is not typically capitalized on in LCA because th...

This paper describes a natural language system which improves its own performance through learning. The system processes short English narratives and is able to acquire, f rom a single narrative, a new schema for a stereotypical set of actions. During the understanding process, the system attempts to construct explanations for characters' actions in terms of the goals their actions were meant t...

There is a growing research examining the use of visual diagrams in scientific explanations. However, current this area mostly based on case studies involving few explanations from one or two topics science. are systematic that examine more broadly how used relation to across range texts. The aim study investigate characteristics found Grade 7–10 science textbooks covering many biology, chemist...

Much natural resource policy work stresses the importance of involving lay and expert stakeholders in a dialogue about environmental values pertaining to decisions about land management. To this end, there is growing interest in value elicitation techniques that: (a) provide alternatives to values expressed as willingness to pay formulas; and (b) do a good job of representing the many social, e...

this article is going to study of effective sociological factors on production of political narrative literature discourse during sixty and seventy decades. in this order, robert wuthnow & randall collins’s theories are used in total emphasizes on four concepts such as: political reforms of government, crisis in moral order of society, forming interaction chains between writers & resource mobil...

For older people with multiple chronic co-morbidities, strategies to coordinate care depend heavily on information exchange. We analyse the information-sharing difficulties arising from differences between patients' oral narratives and medical sense-making; and whether a modified form of 'narrative medicine' might mitigate them. We systematically compared 66 general practice patients' own narra...

I> We describe a simple declarative language ~ for describing the effects of a series of action occurrences within a narrative. ~ is analogous to Gelfond and Lifschitz's Language ~¢ and its extensions, but is based on a different ontology. The semantics of ~ is based on a simple characterisation of persistence which facilitates a modular approach to extending the expressivity of the language. D...

Kim Sterelny's book The Pleistocene social contract provides an exceptionally well-informed and credible narrative explanation of the origins inequality hierarchy. In this essay review, we reflect on role rational choice theory in project, before turning to reasons for doubting importance cultural group selection. final section, compare big picture with alternative from David Wengrow Graeber.

as a committed writer, najib al-kayl?ni was of the belief that works of art and literature should be used as a means to promote the islamic culture; thus, he regarded writing narratives, in a realistic style, as the need of the arab world and particularly the egyptian society. features which distinguish his works from those written by other writers are the religious hue and spirit of his storie...