Following Swales’s (1981) works on genre analysis, studies on different sections of Research Articles (RAs) in various languages and fields abound; however, only scant attention has been directed toward abstracts written in Persian, and in the field of literature. Moreover, claims made by Lores (2004) regarding the correspondence of two types of abstracts with different models, and by Martin (2...

BACKGROUND Fatigue, a major cause of disability in individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS), is associated with reduced quality of life. The aim of this study was to evaluate the reliability and reproducibility of the Persian version of Modified Fatigue Impact Scale (MFIS) in Iranian patients with MS. METHODS This study included 15 subjects with clinically definite MS, 15 hospitalized patient...

This paper deals with several issues in the semantics of Persian noun-determination, which has long been of interest to linguists of various theoretical backgrounds, but has only recently started receiving attention from formally-oriented semanticists. The aim of this paper is to introduce and elaborate on several of the more promising newer approaches to the problem of Persian noundeterminatio...

BACKGROUND AND METHODOLOGY The Internet is a useful resource for obtaining information. We evaluated the accuracy and coverage of reproductive health information on the Internet in English- and Persian-language sites accessed from Iran. An expert committee decided on five reproductive health topics to be evaluated and specified a checklist of content for these (36 items in total). We employed s...

the social situation and the cultural requirements of the early 1970s became the groundwork of minimalism which gradually appeared in different fields of art and literature. the short story is one of the most prominent instances of such approach in narrative literature. although, many believe that the root of this gender is in western literature, but many of the authors in east, especially the ...

The rapid growth of online information services has created the problem of information explosion. Automatic text summarization techniques are essential for dealing with this problem. The process of compacting a source document to reduce its complexity and length while retaining its most important contents is called text summarization. This paper introduces Parsumist-a text summarization system ...

the necessity of recorrecting some persian prose and poetic texts is an undeniable fact, especially the texts before the raid of mughals. unfortunately, the main problem of corrected texts is not just the lack or not using of authentic manuscripts but the reason should be sought in the method used by correctors and their lack of attention to several literary and linguistic principles. the negli...