The aim of this paper is to explore and review current understanding of the potential of computer play to enhance young children’s cognitive development, as compared to the developmental value of traditional makebelieve play in which children spontaneously engage during their early childhood years. Theories of play have identified many ways in which traditional play may advance children’s cogni...

City growth and environmental difficulties last decades leads the art of urban design and development think more precisely and new approaches for conserving environment and developing urban areas have been evolved.The present study deals with concepts related to ecology in the city and in particular the theory of Ecological Urbanism and its criteria is expressed. Also theory and characteristics...

the principle of tort law is that the liability is based on the act prejudicial that in iranian law in conformity with the article 1 of tort law code and in french law in conformity with the article 1382 of civil code, this act must be guilty. the harmful act in determining responsible in tort law is necessary. if the chain of causes of action for compensation for damaging responsible is a pers...

By considering a generalisation of the CPM construction, we develop an infinite hierarchy probabilistic theories, exhibiting compositional decoherence structures which generalise traditional quantum-to-classical transition. Analogously to case, these decoherences reduce degrees freedom in physical systems, while at same time restricting fields over systems are defined. These theories possess fu...

The increasing popularity of social media encourages more and more users to participate in various online activities and produces data in an unprecedented rate. Social media data is big, linked, noisy, highly unstructured and incomplete, and differs from data in traditional data mining, which cultivates a new research field social media mining. Social theories from social sciences are helpful t...

1. Incommensurability Science is often distinguished from other human activities by its progressive nature. It has standards for identifying improvements and methods for accumulating them into an ever improving body of sound knowledge. Such traditional view has been challenged by many philosophers. The most significant blow to the idea of progressive science is incommensurability – the idea tha...

This article begins by accounting the development of Second language theories .It describes major ESL theories ever since the 18th century to those currently adopted in ESL field. Then it proceeds to demonstrate their influences on EFL teaching in China, like nowadays an increasing awareness of non-cognitive factors in teaching foreign languages, reforms in some traditional teaching methodologi...

Some recent theories of gerunds account for their hybrid properties by saying that the gerund is both a noun and a verb simultaneously. Such theories are inconsistent with the Reference-Predication Constraint (RPC), a cornerstone of Baker’s (2003) theory of lexical categories. In contrast, I defend the traditional idea that gerunds are fusions of a true verb and a syntactically distinct nominal...