introduction: the term dynamic assessment (da) refers to an assessment, by an active teaching process, of a child's perception, learning, thinking, and problem solving. the process is aimed at modifying an individual's cognitive functioning and observing subsequent changes in learning and problem-solving patterns within the testing situation. da has been advocated as an alternative an...

The use of variable selection methods is particularly appealing in statistical problems with functional data. The obvious general criterion for variable selection is to choose the ‘most representative’ or ‘most relevant’ variables. However, it is also clear that a purely relevanceoriented criterion could lead to select many redundant variables. The mRMR (minimum Redundance Maximum Relevance) pr...

Functional Data Analysis (FDA) has recently made considerable progress because of easier access to the data that are essentially in the form of curves. Although functional modeling of Iranian precipitation based on temperature or humidity was done before, here we use functional analysis of variance and covariance to analyze the weather data collected randomly from Iranian weather stations in 20...

Exact solutions to a class of nonlinear wave equations are established using the functional variable method. This method is a powerful tool to the search of exact traveling solutions in closed form.We show that, the method is straightforward and concise for several kind of nonlinear problems. Some specific examples arising in a number of physical problems are displayed using symbolic computer c...

The functional variable method is a powerful mathematical tool for obtaining exact solutions of nonlinear evolution equations in mathematical physics. In this paper, the functional variable method is used to establish exact solutions of the (2+1)-dimensional Kadomtsov-Petviashivilli-Benjamin-BonaMahony (KP-BBM) equation, the (2+1)-dimensional Konopelchenko-Dubrovsky equation, the (3+1)dimension...