In his recent book, _Genesis: Procreation and the Politics of Identity_, Mark Brett argues that Genesis (the first book of the Hebrew Bible) is a political text that addresses the debates within the `post-exilic' or `Persian' period concerning the nature of Israelite identity. The dominant push for ethnic purity found in the postexilic books of Ezra and Nehemiah is time and again undermined in ...

studying political terms is an approach to understading the quranic political culture. from professor kurani's point of view, a quranic political term is a word or phrase whose political aspect prevails. after explaining the research methodology in studies related to quranic political terms and culture, the writer analyses some political terms with respect to the related quranic verses.

this study examined naturally-occurring university classroom interactions at iranian universities and provided an analysis of silence patterns as politeness strategies used by male and female students. since empirical studies of silence in classroom settings are scarce, this paper aimed to explain such phenomena using participant interviews, classroom observation and detailed discourse analysis...

We present an experimental analysis of on-off patterns in Voice over IP (VoIP), where we study the talk-spurt/gap distribution produced by two modern silence detectors: ITU G.729 Annex B Voice Activity Detector (VAD) and NeVoT Silence Detector (SD). The results indicate that spurt/gap distributions are fairly sensitive to both the sound volume and the type of silence detectors, but all of them ...

For transporting voice data with silence suppression over the Internet, the problem of jitter introduced from the network often renders the speech unintelligible. It is thus essential to offer intramedia synchronization to remove jitter while retaining minimal playout delay. We have previously proposed a neural– network–based intra–voice synchronization mechanism, called Intelligent Voice Smoot...