the study of the function of religion in creating meaning in man’s individual life and its social effects is one of the significant subjects in sociology of religion. the significance of meaning in life stems from the fact that with the advent of the modern world, the traditional value systems encounter a challenge and the volatility of the modern world life, its multiple of meanings and its va...

The semantic annotation of dialogue corpora permits building efficient language understanding applications for supporting enjoyable and effective human-machine interactions. Nevertheless, the annotation process could be costly, time-consuming and complicated, particularly the more expressive is the semantic formalism. In this work, we propose a bootstrapping architecture for the semantic annota...

The theory of isostasy supposes that, in regions which have not been disturbed recently, each vertical column of the earth's crust with a certain minimum radius and extending to a depth of about IOO km has approximately the same mass. To find the deviation from this approximation in a given region, the density must be assumed as a function of depth. Such assumptions used at present for calculat...

The phenomenon of meaning-preserving corrections given by an adult to a child involves several aspects: (1) the child produces an incorrect utterance, which the adult nevertheless understands, (2) the adult produces a correct utterance with the same meaning and (3) the child recognizes the adult utterance as having the same meaning as its previous utterance, and takes that as a signal that its ...

discussing fundamental problems of sexuality and its related respects could help religious scholars to find out a deeper understanding and analysis of islamic teachings. the problem of hijab in the islamic teachings is investigated concerning its various aspects. in this article, the celestial reality of hijab in the structure of the names of allah is analyzed. the approach of this article is i...

two meanings regarding the principality of existence (isālat al-wujūd) can be inferred from the works and words of mulla sadra. one meaning is the objectivity of existence and essence on which many issues of transcendental philosophy are based. this meaning has deep philosophical consequences and implications. it seems that this meaning causes certain problems which make its acceptance tricky. ...

meaning is both the reference and the content and their concomitant mental associations. the current research aims to find the meaning of home and its constituents in the everyday life of house residents. in this perspective, we seek to investigate this meaning-making processes through exploring the represented houses in four iranian movies in tehran. therefore, “freeway”, “sealed secret”, “sa’...

the two terms information and communication have some ambiguities. yet, there is not a consensus on their definitions. but they have some common characteristics, which make them be used interchangeably, information is the basic element for communication. information, inevitably. does net end to communication while when there is communication, there is information 100. communication is the natur...