expensive to provide these maps  with field measurements  therefore  it is better to use new methods. this study provides a lithological and alteration mapping units with dominant minerals based on hyperspectral images of eo1-hyperion satellite. to do so, two different zones  were  investigated:  the  cuprite-nevada  and  mozahem  volcano  in  iran  which  have suitable conditions for our study...

Acquisition of story-telling skills is an aspect of language development that is influenced by hearing parental story telling. Because discourse between parent and child is affected by the sex of both parent and child, we hypothesized that sex differences would affect parental story telling and children's acquisition of story-telling skills. For this study, 24 children (12 girls, 12 boys) told ...

In the present study an additional measure of story narrative performance, story completeness, is evaluated. The completeness measure involves a tally of the critical story components mentioned by a storyteller. It was hypothesized that by combining organizational (story grammar) and completeness measures, story “goodness” could be quantified. Data from 46 normal adults indicated that this anal...

Story listening contributes greatly to children’s development, and much research has explored different modalities of story listening in children. However, few studies have utilized haptic sensory input. In the present 2-session study, we implemented a haptic vest that generates haptic sensations on a child’s back as he or she listens to stories. In the first session, child participants rated h...

[There are] one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors, who have no aim beyond their facts, are one-story men. Two-story men compare, reason, generalize, using the labor of the fact collectors as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, predict; their best illumination comes from above, through the skylight. (Oliver Wendell Ho...

abstract the present study is conducted to find various forms of times in two fictional genres “tale” and “minimalist story”, and also to disclose the factors behind the difference of the aforementioned forms in the two mentioned genres. time is represented in the levels of plot, setting, language and the images in various forms. in case of tales, due to the absence or weakness of the plot, the...