sassanian pahlavi and manichaean middle persian pre/postpositions cover a relatively vast spectrum of meanings. by reference to the different components of the sentence, they act as determining factors for their grammatical roles. despite the fact that some pre/postpositions partly overlap others' in meanings, they mostly maintain the subtleties of their own specific significations. this a...

purpose – this study tries to examine how perceived instrumentality organizational (the extent to which employees feel that their display of ocb will help in contributing to organizational operations and achievement of organizational objectives) and perceived instrumentality individual ( the extent to which employees perceive that their display of ocb will help in achieving individual objective...

Purpose – This study tries to examine how Perceived Instrumentality Organizational (The extent to which employees feel that their display of OCB will help in contributing to organizational operations and achievement of organizational objectives) and Perceived Instrumentality Individual ( the extent to which employees perceive that their display of OCB will help in achieving Individual Objective...

unlike ordinary language, signs or elements of a literary language tend to develop a loose connection with their innate meanings and conceptions, and there appears to be no logical and natural tie between the words and their possible meanings. this fundamental gap or difference pushes a literary language  further to be dynamic and brings along various vistas for reading. what is important in de...

Sleep consolidates memory and promotes generalization in adults, but it is still unknown to what extent the rapidly growing infant memory benefits from sleep. Here we show that during sleep the infant brain reorganizes recent memories and creates semantic knowledge from individual episodic experiences. Infants aged between 9 and 16 months were given the opportunity to encode both objects as spe...

If students of statistics or our collaborators from other disciplines do not immediately understand the terms “probit regression” or “kriging”, we are not surprised and are happy to carefully explain these advanced statistical terms and concepts. A different class of words has one or more distinct statistical meanings in addition to their standard English definitions and is ripe for confusion a...