In this study, the seismic inter-story drift of structures is estimated by a combination of mode-acceleration equations with the modelling of high-rise buildings with flexural and shear cantilever beams. In the equation presented for calculating the inter-story drift, having less knowledge of the building is adequate and this issue is of significance in estimating the nonstructural component fo...

Discourse markers (DMs) are linguistic elements that index different relations and coherence between units of talk. Most research on the development of these forms has focused on conversations rather than narratives. This article examines age and medium effects on use of various discourse markers in pre-school children. Fifteen normal Iranian monolingual children, male and female, participated ...

lover’s person's life, often the source of the narrators and transmitters. for this reason, love stories in literature people of different have occupied a large space. the stories have many similarities in structure. layla and majnun story is the most famous and most ancient arabic tales has a major influence in the development of persian literature. iranian literary love stories and the s...

S'Ve PictS Neuter tells her story in simple yet arresting language, giving a very comprehensive des UI~k man ̂ euter> who was her teacher, her colleague, and finally her husband. Po\ver Qp ? .^'m as an extraordinarily dynamic person, with an unshakable belief in the Hany 0r sP'r'1 over matter. His enthusiasm attracted large numbers of people to him, ^ey?te th ? ^ were prepared to withstand the t...

This paper introduces the class of reflected number systems. Members of this class have the adjacency property, i.e. representations for consecutive numbers differ in only one digit and the magnitude of this difference is one. It shows that every number system based on a positional weighting scheme has a reflected analogue. It presents procedures to convert a number system to its reflected anal...

Over the past few years, modular buildings have become an important form of environmentally friendly architecture. Prefabricated construction methods gained a lot attention because they produce less waste and require labor water. However, seismic performance needs to be improved. This paper proposes prefabricated steel module with suspended floor, which is based on multi-tuned mass damped floor...

Previous metaphor studies have paid much attention to nominal and predicative metaphors and little attention has been given to adjective metaphors. Although some studies have focused on adjective metaphors, they have only examined how the acceptability of adjective metaphors can be explained by the pairing of adjective modifier’s and head noun’s modalities and little attention has been given to...

This article discusses the difficulties that arose when attempting to specify and design a large scale digital learning environment for Scottish schools. This had a potential user base of about 1 million users and was intended to replace an existing, under-used system. We found that the potential system users were not interested in engaging with the project and that there were immense problems ...

accessing the secondary or implied meaning of the text is one of the most important aims of research in the field of literature because the literariness of the text arises from this kind of meaning.  implied meaning is expressed through language and various elements related to the literary genre, and would be referred to as the text’s “language.” in order to investigate the language of short st...

This research was conducted by combining two structural systems: post-tensioned core walls and an outrigger in a 40-story building. A Vierendeel system applied to one stories, comparison between models performed determine the best locations. In addition, effect of at only 25 % building height investigated. Subsequently, positions were with bonded post-tension %. The results showed improvement l...