Jackson A.V.W. Avesta Reader. First Series

First Reader :

Dedication To My Parents For their love, sacrifice, encouragement, and patience and Ajji Whose memories shall always be with me iv Acknowledgments My advisor, Prof. Tom Little, has constantly inspired me to set high goals for myself and helped me attain them. Ever since I became a member of the Multimedia Communications Laboratory, Tom has enthusiastically guided my research and was patient as ...

Authenticating ‘Cover to Cover’ Reader Series vis-à-vis Cultural Norms for the Iranian community

This research study was an attempt to explore hidden cultural components in an ELT textbook from Oxford University Press (OUP) titled 'Cover to Cover'. Two research methodologies were relied on to unveil the western ideologies in this series: Firstly, a qualitative review over its reading textbooks was undertaken for authenticating the hidden western values for Iranian contexts. At this stage, ...

First Reader Eric Schwartz , Ph . D . Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Second Reader

Images are frequently corrupted by noise and blurring from various sources. To alleviate these distortions, many vision systems employ filtering to reduce noise and enhance contrast in regions which are presumed to correspond to object borders. The logical extreme of this process is a piecewise constant image with step discontinuities at region boundaries. This goal is unattainable using linear...

The Resourceful Reader The Resourceful Reader :

for Communication Yearbook 15. The resourceful reader:Interpreting television characters and narratives The television viewer is an active interpreter, not a passive recipient, of programs. Viewers'interpretations of programs mediate television effects. The 'active viewer' is accepted by bothtraditional and critical mass communication scholars, allowing for a possible convergence<lb...

Studies on Immunisation. First Series