Abstract: Creativity and innovation are major drivers for developments of societies and nations. In this way, research activities have an extremely significant role whose promotion is strongly dependent on the creativity and innovation. There are several factors such as the built environment, which affect the creativity and innovation. This paper extracts a set of design rules for researchers'...

in the process of revelation, divine message is transmitted from the sublime lord and by the prophet to the people. this heavenly message can be considered from several aspects, including that of invitation as a separate category. the present article deals with the linguistic dimension of invitation in the qur’an, specifically in the context of meccan suras. hence, the structure of invitation l...

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humor is a common act of communication in our daily life. today, there is a great deal of studies on the significance of happiness in mental and physical processes; hence the necessity of humor as one of its paradigm. this paper argues islamic perception of humor and whether it is recommended or prohibited by the comprehensive outlook of islam towards human life. juridical books have discussed ...

electroconvulsive therapy (ect) is an efficient treatment for several neuropsychiatric disorders however a large number of patients develop memory impairment after ect. different studies both on animals and human suggest that vasopressin has positive effects on memory and improves cognitive functions. in this randomized, double-blind controlled clinical trial, 50 patients with psychiatric disor...

Dairy cattle evaluation schemes routinely assume homogeneous variance with respect to environment. Increasing evidence suggests the presence of systematic changes in variance components associated with mean level of performance. Best linear unbiased prediction procedures that account for heterogeneity are reviewed. The consequences of incorrectly assuming homogeneity for evaluation are demonstr...

The article discusses differences between a priori and a posteriori phrasing and their importance in the task of automatic prosodic phrasing in text-to-speech systems. On several examples it illustrates shortcomings of common evaluation of a priori phrasing performance using a posteriori phrasing of referential corpus data. The paper also proposes and evaluates a method for a priori phrasing ba...