Topic management is the awareness of how speakers deal with initiating, developing, changing, and ending a topic and how they fix the relationship when a misunderstanding occurs. It is such an important unit of conversation as it includes the transition from one strategy to the other to be accomplished in a systematic and orderly manner. These strategies are impaired in dementia patients thus lead to communication breakdown. This study aims at detecting the dementia patients' topic management strategies in selected speeches and answering the questions of which of these strategies are fully or partially detected in these speeches. The researchers use a qualitative method to examine the speeches of those patients and they adopt an eclectic model including the four strategies of topic management; they are: initiating of (Button & Casey, 1985), developing of (Leo & Thomas, 1998), changing of (Greatbach, 1986), and ending the topic of (Heydon, 2005). According to the findings of the study, patients with dementia are capable of developing conversational topics, but they are unable to initiate, change, or end the topics.
The Strait of Malacca is one of the waterways of strategic, political, and economic importance. This strait has an increasing importance to its neighboring countries. The Strait of Malacca is very important for China, especially in the field of energy supply security, as the vast ma jority of energy supplies come to China through this strait. China seeks to ensure its security, especially in light of the cooperation of countries that look forward to this strait as well as the United States, and what the United States may cause to China, as many of them are at war with China over the China Sea, not to mention the countries that overlook it. The importance of the research emerges from the basic idea that the strategic importance of the Strait
... Show Moreشَهِدَت منطقة الخليج العربي والسَّاحِل العُماني تصاعد مُستوى الحِراك الشعبي، والمُطالبات بتحقيق الاِستقلال التام، وإنهاء الاِلتِزامات والاِرتِباطات الدولـيَّة سواء كانت في إطار الحِماية أو الاِستِشارة أو الصِّداقة، وأصبحت واجِهات ملحوظة من قِبل الفِئات المُـثـقَّـفة في بدايات العقد الثاني من القرن العشرين، وعبَّرت فيها القِوى الوطنيَّة عن حاجاتها في إجراء عملـيَّات التغيير والتحوّل الاِجتِماعي وعلى
... Show MoreThe science of exegesis was started by the first teacher, the Holy Prophet, and then further developed in various methods and approaches through history
The research included the statement of some prophetic
guidelines for preserving food and drink from contamination that
causes diseases, which originate either viruses and microbes, or
insects and vermin spread in the air,
After Zadeh introduced the concept of z-number scientists in various fields have shown keen interest in applying this concept in various applications. In applications of z-numbers, to compare two z-numbers, a ranking procedure is essential. While a few ranking functions have been already proposed in the literature there is a need to evolve some more good ranking functions. In this paper, a novel ranking function for z-numbers is proposed- "the Momentum Ranking Function"(MRF). Also, game theoretic problems where the payoff matrix elements are z-numbers are considered and the application of the momentum ranking function in such problems is demonstrated.
ينقسم الاتجاه الأساسي الذي يجري مناقشته في هذه الورقة إلى مستويين: الأول يركز على تحديد مضمون العلاقة بين الشفافية والفساد، فضلا عن توضيح الدور الذي يمكن أن تؤديه أخلاقيات الأعمال، لتثار التساؤلات هي: هل أن الشفافية والفساد متغيرين مرتبطين معا؟ وهل تؤثر الشفافية في الفساد؟ وهل أن وجود الشفافية كفيل بإزاحة الفساد، أم نحتاج إلى شيء أخر يدعم عملية الشفافية؟ وإذا تم التحدث عن الشفافية كمصطلح بدون وجود مما
... Show MoreThe industries in Baghdad, the most important economic activities in the era albeit and Seljuk to the availability of manpower and resources which encourage the establishment of these industries in Baghdad.
These industries seam as simple crafts, but they may have influenced the nature of the social and economic life in the Baghdadi community during the foreign authority on Iraq and general in Baghdad in particular.
ان تحقيق التطوير المطلوب في التعليم الجامعي يستلزم القيام ببحوث علمية تساعد في الوصول الى معادلات سليمة لأحداثه، وتجنب سلبيات التغيير غير المدروس وغير المخطط علميا ، والبحث الحالي هو محاولة في هذا الأتجاه، ويهتم بوضع خطوط عريضة تتضمن مجموعة الآراء والأفكار والتوجهات ذات الاهمية لتطوير دور التعليم العالي في تنمية العلم والتكنولوجيا، والتنمية البشرية ، أيضا في توجيه
... Show MoreThe development in manufacturing computers from both (Hardware and Software) sides, make complicated robust estimators became computable and gave us new way of dealing with the data, when classical discriminant methods failed in achieving its optimal properties especially when data contains a percentage of outliers. Thus, the inability to have the minimum probability of misclassification. The research aim to compare robust estimators which are resistant to outlier influence like robust H estimator, robust S estimator and robust MCD estimator, also robustify misclassification probability with showing outlier influence on the percentage of misclassification when using classical methods. ,the other
... Show MoreIt is summarized that Abu-Baker Al-Soly is one of Arabic Muslim scientists who had special style in literary writing specifically in sciences and knowledge that had depended on the encyclopedia culture gained from various fields of science , this means that he was an individual who had participated to characterize features of Islamic –Arabic history enhanced the rules of it , this matter would encourage us to know the method and style of writing in the field of intellectual life in which the writer depended on the procedures direction of scientists that he lived in the Abbasid era .