The relationship between language and culture has become a rich source of inquiry in the context of English language teaching. Learning materials can depict cultural content in different cultural senses, namely aesthetic, sociological, semantic, and pragmatic. The present study aimed to investigate the way cultural aspects are represented in the reading and dialog sections of global (American E...

What can be extracted as a common definition amongst near 100 different definitions of crea-tivity according to different disciplines is: Creativity is a new combination of what you have in your inventory of experiences + intuition. It can be considered that expanding the inventory of experiences can gradually help in novel combination of experiences and intuition. To support and promote such a...

Emotions are centered in subjective experiences that people represent, in part, with hundreds, if not thousands, of semantic terms. Claims about the distribution of reported emotional states and the boundaries between emotion categories-that is, the geometric organization of the semantic space of emotion-have sparked intense debate. Here we introduce a conceptual framework to analyze reported e...

Unconventional secretory proteins represent a subpopulation of extracellular factors that are exported from eukaryotic cells by mechanisms that do not depend on the endoplasmic reticulum and the Golgi complex. Various pathways have been implicated in unconventional secretion including those involving intracellular membrane-bound intermediates and others that are based on direct protein transloc...

the production and application of pet tracers has been a unique step in the progress of nuclear medicine in last two decades. the most important pet tracers include f-18, c-11 and n-13 radioisotopes and many nuclear medicine centers throughout the globe are using them. however some new tracers are under their way to the mass administration, currently being in the clinical trials or preliminary ...

Citation: Koně cni VJ (2015) Being moved as one of the major aesthetic emotional states: A commentary on " Being moved: linguistic representation and conceptual structure ". Recently in this journal, Kuehnast et al. (2014) empirically explored the semantic, psychological, and emotional features of being moved. The purpose of this commentary is to relate the results and discussion of Kuehnast et...

A novel computationally highly e cient realization of sharp symmetrical bandstop FIR lter is proposed. The new structure is derived using the frequency-response-masking technique, where the bandedge-shaping lter is derived from half-band lter by substituting each delay of the half-band lter by M delays. The masking lters are unconventional. They are quadrature lters derived from linear combinat...

Hate speech in the form of racism and sexism is commonplace on the internet (Waseem and Hovy, 2016). For this reason, there has been both an academic and an industry interest in detection of hate speech. The volume of data to be reviewed for creating data sets encourages a use of crowd sourcing for the annotation efforts. In this paper, we provide an examination of the influence of annotator kn...

Research in perception and appreciation is often focused on snapshots, stills of experience. Static approaches allow for multidimensional assessment, but are unable to catch the crucial dynamics of affective and perceptual processes; for instance, aesthetic phenomena such as the "Aesthetic-Aha" (the increase in liking after the sudden detection of Gestalt), effects of expectation, or Berlyne's ...