this study intends to propose a modern model in the field of human resources (hr) strategic management through designing human resources’ competence framework. based on this strategic orientation of organization on human resources management system has been investigated considering the mediating role of competence approach in central bank of the islamic republic of iran. in order to implement a...

The present study analyzes the metaphorical extensions of the Chinese spatial term zhong and the English spatial term middle. It finds that The essay finds both ZHONG and MIDDLE are found to be used in the target domains of STATES, RANK and TIME, which further provides a piece of evidence that our abstract reasoning is partly structured by our spatial thinking through schematic mapping and meta...

BACKGROUND Previous research using a metaphorical anaesthesia monitor, where dimensions of rectangles proportionally represent 30 patient variable values, showed improved performance in diagnosing adverse events compared with the standard monitor. Steady-state values were represented by a frame around each rectangle. We developed a similar metaphorical anaesthesia interface, but instead of pres...

This report provides a measure of relatively objective evaluation of our ATT-Meta approach to conducting some of the reasoning needed in the understanding of metaphorical utterances. The approach is partially implemented in our ATT-Meta system, although the report does not evaluate the system itself. The approach and system are not described in detail here. The utterances of most interest in th...

Recent work suggests that concreteness and imageability play an important role in the meanings of figurative expressions. We investigate this idea in several ways. First, we try to define more precisely the context within which a figurative expression may occur, by parsing a corpus annotated for metaphor. Next, we add both concreteness and imageability as “features” to the parsed metaphor corpu...

The analysis of students’ conceptions is a crucial element in modern science education research. Based on large number studies, we know that learning environments should build upon existing knowledge to initiate conceptual change towards an adequate scientific understanding. This also holds true when it comes moral reasoning. In this case, the implementation educational standards, such as decis...

Metaphor recognition presents a computational challenge, in part due to metaphoric deviation from literal thinking, and also because of a metaphor’s various linguistic expressions. This article forwards a new computational method, an integrated treatment of metaphor recognition from the computational perspective, which recent related studies have not entirely addressed. The authors differentiat...

This article explores how increasing knowledge in conceptual domains influences the development of metaphor. Two areas of prior research motivated the current study: The notion that many metaphors involve the juxtaposition of conceptual domains rather than merely the terms explicitly used in the metaphor, and the suggestion that historically, once one novel metaphorical relation is made between...