event unfolded off the west coast of Mexico. At first, the event seemed like a typical east Pacific tropical cyclone (TC), with operational forecasts of it becoming a minimal hurricane at best. What actual ly transpired would rewrite the record books for TCs. Hurricane Patricia became a historic storm, breaking several records, including those related to rate of intensity change and peak intens...

The English language has evolved dramatically throughout its lifespan, to the extent that a modern speaker of Old English would be incomprehensible without translation. One concrete indicator of this process is the movement from irregular to regular (-ed) forms for the past tense of verbs. In this study we quantify the extent of verb regularization using two vastly disparate datasets: (1) Six y...

Children today regularly interact with touchscreen devices (Rideout, 2013) and thousands of "educational" mobile applications are marketed to them (Shuler, 2012). Understanding children's own ideas about optimal learning has important implications for education, which is being transformed by electronic mobile devices, yet we know little about how children think about such devices, including wha...

purpose: this study aimed to identify and introduce the most important evaluation and production criteria of audio books based on users’ point of view.method: in terms of methodology, this study was among the quantitative studies and done with descriptive survey. the research instrument was researcher-made questionnaire. population was all users of audiolib website that used from audio books mo...

course books do not only educate students but also prepare them to take responsibilities proportional to their gender as planned by the author. this research is trying to examine the way that gender is represented in farsi books of middle school and the first three grades of high school in non-human science fields in the academic year 2009-10. research method was through analyzing the quantity ...

Advances in information technology encourage the development of e-books. The 2010 Horizon Report predicts that e-book will be one of the six technologies most likely to affect higher education in coming years. Despite the huge investment in developing the e-book market, customer take-up over the past decades is still far below expectations. The success of e-book adoption depends on the implemen...