this study seeks to examine how teachers’ educational background (those who have educated in tefl in comparison to those who have educated in literature) may influence their beliefs and attitudes on language learning, teaching and the teaching methods they apply in their classes. on a general basis, depending on teachers’ opinion, learning process might be seen as behavioristic, inductive, inte...

development of any organization largely depends on the proper use of its human resources. as organizations become much larger, these problems are naturally added to these enormous labor force. one of the topics organizational communities of irancan be considered as a unfamiliar subject and less likely to be found in research is the phenomenon of organizational silence; despite the fact that sil...

two main factors influencing the entrepreneurial opportunity recognition, i.e. prior knowledge and cognitive characteristics have been identified. in order to examine the effect of prior knowledge on opportunity recognition with mediating role of cognitive characteristics including entrepreneurial alertness and entrepreneurial learning, the conceptual model of research and the related hypothese...

Long-term motor skill learning has been consistently shown to result in functional as well as structural changes in the adult human brain. However, the effect of short learning periods on brain structure is not well understood. In the present study, subjects performed a sequential pinch force task (SPFT) for 20 min on 5 consecutive days. Changes in brain structure were evaluated with anatomical...

In this study, the relations between parents, older siblings, peers, adolescents’individual characteristics, and adolescents’deviant attitudes and behaviors were examined simultaneously, using a social learning perspective and data of 121 families from inner-city Philadelphia. Results of structural equation models showed that older deviant siblings had the strongest effect on adolescent devianc...

A long-term goal of machine learning is to build an intelligent dialogue agent that is capable of learning associations within data and using them to understand and answer questions and make relevant recommendations. The Facebook Movie Dialog Dataset (MDD) was recently proposed in Dodge et al. (2016) to evaluate the comparative performance of dialogue agent systems. However, a structural analys...