Given that Mandarin is a tone language and English is not, the present study investigated the perception of Mandarin tones in young school-aged children with or without tone language exposure. Mandarin Monolingual (MM), English-Mandarin Bilingual (EMB) and English Monolingual (EM) children aged 6 to 8 years participated in tone identification and discrimination tasks. Tone identification and di...

*Correspondence: [email protected] Department of Mathematics, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran Abstract In this paper, we solve a time-space fractional diffusion equation. Our methods are based on normalized Bernstein polynomials. For the space domain, we use a set of normalized Bernstein polynomials and for the time domain, which is a semi-infinite domain, ...

Nowadays, Tehran Urban and Suburban Railway System (TUSRS) is going to be completed by eight lines and 149 stations. This complex transportation system contains 168 links between each station pairs and 20 cross-section and Y-branch stations among all eight lines. In this study, we considered TUSRS as a complex network and undertook several analyzes based on graph theory. Examining e.g. centrali...

An integrated simulation-based fuzzy regression-time series algorithm for electricity consumption estimation with non-stationary data Ali Azadeh a , Morteza Saberi b c d & Anahita Gitiforouz a a Department of Industrial Engineering, University College of Engineering, University of Tehran, P.O. Box 11365-4563, Iran b Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Tafresh, Tafresh, Iran c In...

Improving Creativity through Pictorial Teaching of Farsi   B. Akbari Mobaarakeh* Z. Abaazari, Ph.D.** N. Rahmati*** Z. Mirhoseini, Ph.D.****   To show that pictorial teaching of Farsi can improve creativity, a cluster sample of 320 female 6th graders was divided into two groups one of which was taught Farsi using the pictorial approach for a semester. The two groups’ crea...

Mohammad Javad Poursharifi was born in 1971 in Ray City, Iran. He obtained his B.Sc. (1994) from Kharazmi University, Tehran. He then completed his M.Sc. studies in Organic Chemistry (2008) from Islamic Azad University, Saveh Branch, Iran. Currently, he is working towards his Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor Mohammad Majid Mojtahedi and Professor Mahmood M. Hashemi at Islamic Azad Unive...

objective: to evaluate sensorimotor nerve damage in patients with maxillofacial trauma referring to taleghani hospital, tehran, iran methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted during a 2-year period from 2014 to 2012 in taleghani hospital of tehran. we included a total number of 495 patients with maxillofacial trauma referring to our center during the study period. the demographic inform...

Associate Professor, Department of Virology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran Assistant Professor, Dental Research Center, Dentistry Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences AND Department of Operative Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Associate Professor, Dental Research Center, Dentistry Research Institute, Tehran Unive...