Bargaining Over Labor: Do Patients Have Any Power?

Do You Have Any Recommendations?

Increasingly, users expect search engines to deliver answers to their queries, no matter how idiosyncratic or imprecise the formulation of their search. No longer content with receiving a list of URLs (often numbering in the thousands) to off-topic sites, users expect that search results be both highly relevant and usefully ranked. Additionally, the growing popularity of collaborative categoriz...

Applying Mitigation Devices in Request Speech Act: Do Gender and Language Proficiency Have any Effect?

This study aims to examine how Iranian EFL learners perceive and apply mitigation devices in request speech act in 4 asymmetrical situations. Role-play interactions and questionnaires were used to elicit the required data from Iranian informants (male vs. female). The results obtained from the analysis of data revealed that in identical situations, male requestors were comparably more certain t...

Do Serum Vitamin D Levels Have Any Effect on Intrauterine Insemination Success?

Objective Recent studies have shown that vitamin D has an essential role in the reproductive system. In this study, we aimed to investigate the effect of vitamin D levels in patients undergoing ovulation induction (OI), and subsequent intrauterine insemination (IUI) procedure. MaterialsAndMethods One hundred and four infertile and one hundred and three fertile women were recruited in this cross...

Do College Student Surveys Have Any Validity?

Do teacher-parent relationships have any impact on EFL language proficiency

Various studies focusing on the effectiveness of teacher-parents relationship emphasize the positive effects of parents’ involvement in education. This study aimed to examine the effects of teacher-parents relationship on Iranians EFL learners’ language proficiency at elementary level. It also aimed to find how this relationship may influence  parents’ motivation and attitude with regard to the...