One of the most problematic areas for teachers and learners in English classrooms is prepositions. Two types of prepositions in English are spatial (space) and temporal (time) prepositions. Prepositions are words linking two entities and thereby specifying the relation of the two. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the role of games and flash cards in learning place and time prep...

Cortical pyramidal neurons receive thousands of synaptic inputs arriving at different dendritic locations with varying degrees of temporal synchrony. It is not known if different locations along single cortical dendrites integrate excitatory inputs in different ways. Here we have used two-photon glutamate uncaging and compartmental modeling to reveal a gradient of nonlinear synaptic integration...

abstract aim and background: evaluation of cognition is fundamental for every comprehensive epilepsy program. we sought to conduct this study to assess memory state of patients with refractory temporal lobe epilepsy before decision for epilepsy surgery. method and materials: in a case-control study, 20 patients with right temporal lobe epilepsy and 20 patients with left temporal lobe epilepsy w...

Although deixis has received increasingly academic attention in linguistic research, its use sermons, particularly the Islamic context, been largely underexplored. Therefore, this paper examined Friday sermons from perspective of pragmatics and discourse analysis. Drawing on Levinson’s Framework, it aimed at analyzing three main types (personal, temporal, spatial), focusing their forms, feature...

The article deals with the linguopoetics of deixis as one key mechanisms for expressing subjectivity in artistic communication. aim study is to discuss specifics deictic words and constructions experimental poetic discourse. second part analyzes functions personal, spatial, discourse (textual) visual layout a text (spatial design verse). material analysis encompasses Edward Cummings’ verse, con...

intention-based communication heuristics and we argued for the need for making domain dependent information available throughout the planning process. 13 process, an explicit representation of domain dependent information. For example, consider the following text, taken from the GIST domain: Do you receive a widow's benefit? 2 no 2 yes enter your benefit number Here, \enter your beneet number" ...