........................................................................................iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.......................................................................iv CHAPTER ONE Introduction................................................................1 CHAPTER TWO Uncommon Convergences: Reification in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo..........

In this report, the RRSG characterizes reading comprehension in a way that the group believes will help organize research and development activities in the domain of reading comprehension. In Chapter Two, we provided a working definition for reading comprehension and outlined a framework including three core elements—reader, text, and activity—which are situated in a larger sociocultural contex...

Introduction The purpose of this chapter is to review the available literature focusing on the areas of policy relating to teenage pregnancy under exploration in this thesis. Having presented the various trends in teenage pregnancy and related rates as well as associated and causal factors in the previous chapter, this chapter begins by providing further explanation as to why the three particul...

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The trusting agent in order to analyze the Risk that could be present in its future interaction with a trusted agent might solicit for its recommendations from other agents. Based on the recommendations achieved the trusting agent can decide whether to interact or not with the trusted agent. If the trusting agent decides to proceed, then after its interaction it should adjust the creditability ...

It is well known that the act of observation can appear to affect the results of certain scientific experiments. However, some research techniques into the causes of this phenomenon have been branded as non-scientific due to the mind producing personal, un-metered, and seemingly inconsistent results. This research into the reasons for this variability has produced two important conclusions. Fir...

Las opiniones expresadas en redes sociales o blogs son actualmente un medio en el cual se basan los usuarios para la toma de decisiones en situaciones tales como la compra de un producto o en la contratación de un servicio; recientemente, el número de opiniones expresadas ha aumentado exponencialmente en la Web. La mineŕıa de opiniones tiene como objetivo la extracción de información subjetiva ...