Communication is an essential part in languages. It is the purpose of learning a second or a foreign language. Oral communication is one of the aspects that need to be developed among English learners. The study focused on investigating the factors of apprehension among English language students in Palestine. The study aimed to investigate the degree of oral communication apprehension among Eng...

Over the past decade, cloud services emerged as one of the most promising technologies in IT. Since cloud computing allows improving the quality of software and, at the same time, aims at reducing costs of operating software and hardware, more and more software is delivered as a service in the cloud. However, moving existing software applications to the cloud and making them behave as software ...

At the successful staging of 20th Century Chinese Art organized by Christie’s, held in Hong Kong in November 2005, an auction record was set for a work by deceased artist Pan Yuliang (潘玉良, 1895-1977).1 Previously estimated to be between HK$33.5 million (approximately US$384,600-448,700) in value before the sale, the partially nude self-portrait of Pan fetched an impressive HK$9.64 million inste...

People often assign ownership to the person who has invested labor into making an object (labor rule). However, labor usually improves objects and increases their value, and it has not been investigated whether these considerations underlie people's use of the labor rule. We presented participants with third-party ownership conflicts between an owner of materials and an artist who used the mate...

In this paper, we present an approach for musical artist recommendation based on Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs) of artist reviews from Amazon web site. The Amazon reviews for the artists are obtained using the Amazon web service interface and stored in the form of textual documents that form the basis for the formation of the SOMs. The idea is to spatially organize these textual documents wherein ...

Abstract In this paper I distinguish between illustrative and performative uses of artworks in the teaching communication philosophy, drawing examples from history art my own practice. The former are where works used merely to illustrate communicate a philosophical idea or argument, latter artist teacher philosophizes through creation art. hope promote future collaboration philosophers, histori...