the aim of the present research was to investigate the relationship between effective relations of spouses, and mother–child relations emphasizing the meditational role of attachment style, personality traits, communication skills and sexual satisfaction. accordingly, 260 individuals including mothers and their children were randomly selected, and assessed by a package of questionnaires, includ...

In this paper it is argued that Hintikka’s game theoretical semantics for Independence Friendly logic does not formalize the intuitions about independent choices; it rather is a formalization of imperfect information. Furthermore it is shown that the logic has several strange properties (e.g. renaming of bound variables is not allowed). An alternative semantics is proposed which formalizes intu...

this study concerns determining the factors that may influence the communication skill of those university teachers involved in the field of agricultural sciences in iran. accordingly, based on a cross-sectional survey method, a conceptual model of communication skill has been devised through reviewing the related literature. next, the model was revised by the expert panel of the study into a s...

Several variants of a first-order simplification rule for nonnormal form tableaux using syntactic constraints are presented. These can be used as a framework for porting methods like unit resolution or hyper tableaux to non-normal form free variable tableaux.

An alternative approach to the semantics of definite descriptions was proposed by Heim in her dissertation [1982]. Heim assigns to pragmatics a larger part of the task of specifying the meaning of definite descriptions than the neo-Russellians do. In Heim’s theory, definite and indefinite NPs are semantically equivalent, and both introduce free variables. The truth conditions proposed by Heim f...