people can make their time happier by telling jokes. jokes can be a part of humor and oral facetiae of the common literature of iran that emerges in different ways. some jokes which have a happy aspect, positive function in various fields so they are as constructive ingredient and some that have negative reflection bring destruction effects. this a focuses on the negative consequences of  black...

The present paper focuses on intertextuality as a means of black humor in plays by Martin McDonagh, famous British-Irish playwright. Nine his have been translated into different languages and staged theatres around the world. However, most theories comic effect cannot explain phenomenon popularity. This prompted authors to search for accurate least conditioned way classify intertext general par...

Queries involving Regular Expressions (RegEx) have a wide range of applications including document stores, bioinformatics and information retrieval. However, efficiently executing RegEx queries over large datasets remains a challenging task. Data scans do not scale well with input size; however, existing techniques that avoid data scans — referred to as “black-box” approaches — offer little or ...

Queries involving Regular Expressions (RegEx) have a wide range of applications including document stores, bioinformatics and information retrieval. However, efficiently executing RegEx queries over large datasets remains a challenging task. Data scans do not scale well with input size; however, existing techniques that avoid data scans — referred to as “black-box” approaches — offer little or ...

The aim of the present study was to better understand humor in individuals with Asperger’s syndrome. Therefore, various humor and laughter related phenomena were investigated by means of various standardized humor instruments. Forty individuals with AS and 113 controls filled out several self-report questionnaires and tests. The results revealed that individuals with AS scored significantly low...

The Use of Educational Humor in the Process of Learning and Teaching: A Special Facilitator for Second Language Learners A. Zeyaa'ee Mehr, Ph.D. Research on educational humor during the past two decades demonstrates both the role and the impact of humor on the processes of learning and teaching, especially in the area of second/foreign language learning. There are a number of theories...

Interviews with five occupational therapists who use humor therapeutically in their practice were conducted and analyzed with a phenomenological method so that the lived experience of therapeutic humor use in occupational therapy could be examined. Sixteen themes were identified through data analysis: The Concept of Therapeutic Use of Humor; Spontaneous Versus Deliberate Humor; Humor, the Great...