Online social networks like Instagram are places for communication. Also, these media produce rich metadata which are useful for further analysis in many fields including health and cognitive science. Many researchers are using these metadata like hashtags, images, etc. to detect patterns of user activities. However, there are several serious ambiguities like how much reliable are these informa...

In this paper we present findings based on the design and study of a game like activity that allows for physical and bodily interaction around abstract concepts like energy and energy consumption in a collaborative learning setting. The game, called Weather Gods and Fruit Kids, uses motion sensing technologies in combination with tactile and audio feedback to create an embodied interactive sett...

â â â  as any method of criticisn enjoys a specific discourse and critics follow their specific style of criticism, crystallized in the concepts and, ideas they use or the mastery they show, this study investigates the critical concepts and strategies lå«wä«s 'äªwad uses in his work. we hope that we have been able to describe his characteristic critical style and his multidimensional appro...

Phonological structures and processes are determined by the functional principles of minimization of articulatory effort and maximization of perceptual contrast. We can solve many hitherto controversial issues if we are aware of the different roles of articulation and perception in phonology. Traditionally separate devices like the segment, spreading, licensing, underspecification, feature geom...

Any modern approach to a Marxist theory of culture must begin by considering the proposition of a determining base and a determined superstructure. From a strictly theoretical point of view this is not, in fact, where we might choose to begin.1 It would be in many ways preferable if we could begin from a proposition which originally was equally central, equally authentic: namely the proposition...

in the previous articles, dr. tijani presented a theoretical discussion over the fact that how political concepts and ideas are present in the stories of prophets. in this article he studies the meccan verses addressed to the koreyshites. he believes that political ideas were present in all devine religions and that they exist in islam, as well, because it is the continuation of the previous re...