Examining a Controversial PPS Publication
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چکیده
A scientific article usually is divided into parts; an abstract, which gives a brief overview of the article; the introduction, where related findings are discussed; the methods, which tell how the work was done; the results, which tell what was found in the study and the discussion in which the results are put into context with previous findings. In this final section the authors can speculate on wider implications of their findings.
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