To Pick or Not to Pick: Photographic Voucher Specimens as an Alternative Method to Botanical Collecting in Ethnobotany

Cloze-Elide Test as an Alternative Test Method: Linking Personality Types to Test Method Performance

More innovative test methods may measure language learners’ test performance more accurately, contributing to much fairer decisions. This study examined Iranian language learners’ performance on cloze-elide test as an innovative, integrative test method. It specifically focused on investigating whether personality types correlated with their performance and whether personality types could predi...

a paradigm shift away from method-wise teaching to strategy-wise teaching: an investigation of reconstructive strategy versus communicative strategy

چکیده: هدف اصلی این مطالعه ی توصیفی تحقیقی در حقیقت تلاشی پساروش-گرا به منظور رسیدن به نتیجه ای منطقی در انتخاب مناسبترین راهکار آموزشی بر گرفته از چارچوب راهبردی مطرح شده توسط والدمر مارتن بوده که به بهترین شکل سازگار و مناسب با سامانه ی آموزشی ایران باشد. از این رو، دو راهکار آموزشی، راهکار ارتباطی و راهکار بازساختی، برای تحقیق و بررسی انتخاب شدند. صریحاً اینکه، در راستای هدف اصلی این پژوهش، ر...

Folic Acid Supplementation: to Advise or not to Advise?

Pick functions related to the Gamma function

has attracted the attention of several authors. In [1], Anderson and Qiu showed that f increases on the interval [1,∞[ and they conjectured that f is concave on the interval [1,∞[. The concavity of f on [1,∞[ was established by Elbert and Laforgia ([3]). At the Fifth International Symposium on Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and Applications held in Patras in September 1999, D. Dimitr...

Learning To Pick Up a Novel Object

1. Abstract In order for an autonomous robot to successfully function in a natural environment it needs to be able to able to interact with objects it has never seen before. Specifically it needs to be able to manipulate objects in the environment that it has no prior knowledge of. The robot must not only be able to cope with uncertainty in the shape of the object, but also with uncertainty in ...