wireless sensor networks (wsns) are one of the most interesting consequences of innovations in different areas of technology including wireless and mobile communications, networking, and sensor design. these networks are considered as a class of wireless networks which are constructed by a set of sensors. a large number of applications have been proposed for wsns. besides having numerous applic...

abstract biometric access control is an automatic system that intelligently provides the access of special actions to predefined individuals. it may use one or more unique features of humans, like fingerprint, iris, gesture, 2d and 3d face images. 2d face image is one of the important features with useful and reliable information for recognition of individuals and systems based on this ...

this study investigated (a) the learners’ existing reading strategy repertoire, (b) the effect of instruction in reading strategies on learners’ strategic performance, and (c) the effect of explicit instruction in top-down reading strategies on reading comprehension ability of intermediate learners. the study was conducted with 40 intermediate efl learners in two groups of experimental and cont...

the ability to speak two languages in the world is a remarkable achievement. there is a good reason to believe that bilingualism is the norm for the majority of people in the world because 70% of the earth’s population are supposed to be bilingual or multilingual. various investigations have shown that the native language impacts foreign word recognition, and this influence is adapted by the de...

methodology non-native participants in this study were sixty ba students majoring in english literature and teaching english as a foreign language at khayyam university of mashhad. they were senior students, between 21 to 24 years old, who had studied english for at least three and a half years and had passed several courses including grammar, reading, conversation, and writing. this was assum...

some researches made in the field of agency problem issue, deal with the role of control systems regarding owners and managers. in this research the relationship between the two control mechanisms, namely the voluntary disclosure (external control mechanism) and outside directors (internal control mechanism), which are reductive of agency problems, has been studied. for this reason, a sample ...

چکیده مورچه‏ها با حمایت از شپشک‏ها در مقابل دشمنان طبیعی، می‏توانند برنامه‏های کنترل بیولوژیک آن‏ها را مختل ‏نمایند. طی سال‏های 1389 و 1390 با نمونه‏برداری از باغات مرکبات شهرستان‏های ساری و بهشهر، فون و فراوانی نسبی مورچه‏هایِ همراه با شپشک‏ها مورد مطالعه قرار گرفت. همچنین، تاثیر تراکم‏های مختلف کاست کارگر گونه‏ی santschi lasius turcicus بر میزان تغذیه و فراسنجه‏های واکنش تابعی حشرات ماده و لا...

in this thesis a calibration transfer method is used to achieve bilinearity for augmented first order kinetic data. first, the proposed method is investigated using simulated data and next the concept is applied to experimental data. the experimental data consists of spectroscopic monitoring of the first order degradation reaction of carbaryl. this component is used for control of pests in frui...