investigating the discursive construction of efl learners’ motivation is a relatively new area of inquiry. hence, there is a dearth of research into how foreign language learners’ discourse mediates their motivation construction. this study attempted to examine the discursive construction of two (one male and one female) iranian efl learners’ motivation in shiraz university, iran by examining t...

Main result of this paper is to derive the exact analytical expressions of information and covariance matrices for multivariate Burr III and logistic distributions. These distributions arise as tractable parametric models in price and income distributions, reliability, economics, Human population, some biological organisms to model agricultural population data and survival data. We showed that ...

introduction: a study model is a precise three dimensional replica of patient’s dentition and plays an important role in treatment planning. many digital multi-media applications have become available to the clinician and his or her staff to facilitate standard procedures in practice and management. the aim of this study is to evaluate reliability and validity of dental measurement made on digi...

In this paper, we propose a novel trust computation framework (TCF) for cloud services. Trust is computed by taking into consideration multi-dimensional quality of service (QoS) evidence and user feedback. Feedback provides ample regarding the experience (QoE) users. However, in some cases, users may behave maliciously report false Users can carry out collusion Sybil attacks to slander/self-pro...

A formulation and an implementation of two-dimensional Boundary Element Method (BEM) analysis for steady state, uncoupled thermoelastic problems is presented. This approach differs from other treatments of thermal loads in BEM analysis in which the domain integrals due to the thermal gradients are to be incorporated in the analysis via particular-integrals. Thus unlike Finite Elements or Field ...

the present study attempted to compare the structural and functional changes of left heart ventricle in female basketball players of khuzestan superior league (aged between 18 and 29) during regular training and long-term detraining. out of 30 female players, 15 subjects were assigned randomly to regular training group and 15 subjects to long-term detraining group. the structural and functional...

Matrix Analysis of Corrosion Inhibition Phenomena (MACIP), in which an inhibitor isconsidered as a point in a multi-dimensional virtual efficiency space, was performed on somepyridine derivatives. The needed molecular parameters such as HOMO and LUMO energylevels, charge densities on hetero atom, dipole moment, heat of formation, and total energyvalues were obtained by means of semi-empirical q...

In this paper a constitutive model formulated in the framework of multi-laminate models is applied to analyze pipe-jacking processes. The multi-laminate -based models consider various integration planes to formulate the stress-strain relationship. This basic feature of the framework has the advantage that yield criteria, flow and hardening rules are formulated on planes rather than in three-dim...

Browsing, which usually alternates with search in information seeking on the web, highly depends on information organization of the browsed web site. An emerging web content categorization is multi-faceted, which does not impose any rigid structure, and allows users to slice and dice the information space from any chosen “dimensions” they wish to browse. However, owing to the limited capacity o...

High dimensional data visualization is very important in data analysts since it gives a direct and natural view of data. In this paper, we propose a method to visualize large amount of high dimensional data in a 3-D space. In our method, we divide the high dimension data into several groups of lower dimensional data first. Then, we use different icons to represent different groups. Initial expe...