OBJECTIVE The most commonly used instrument for the research and treatment of excessive internet use is Young's Internet Addiction Test (IAT). While the IAT has been translated to several languages (including Persian) and has demonstrated good psychometric properties across several independent studies, there is still a room for alternative assessment instruments. This study reports a validation...

The Indo-Persian state secretary has occupied center stage in the emerging discourse on bureaucracy, administration and the political formation of the Mughal state. The status and role of the munsh? (the IndoPersian state secretary) within the Mughal bureaucratic structure in 17th and 18th century have formed the basis of recent historical analysis. Scholarship on the Indo-Persian munsh? have b...

Finding an appropriate dataset for natural language processing applications is one of the main challenges for researches of this field. This issue is more problematic in Non-Latin languages especially Persian language. Access to an appropriate dataset that can be used in development of practical programs in language processing field, helps us to validate the obtained results and provide the fea...

BACKGROUND Measuring the impacts of oral conditions on quality of life is an important part of oral health needs assessment. For this purpose a variety of oral health-related quality of life instruments have been developed. To use a scale in a new context or with a different groups of people, it is necessary to re-establish its psychometric properties. The objectives of this study are to develo...

this paper examines the influence of persian words on italian culture and literature. these words entered italian literature before the 14 th century . first , it should be mentioned that the standard italian language has a literary origin that starts in the twelfth century, and the modern standard language was largely shaped by relatively recent events. this european language did not remain un...

to improve the position of persian as a scientific language, an organized program is required on the basis of the modern methodologies in teaching persian to speakers of other languages (tpsol), which is more obvious in regard to the rapid development of technology where traditional class-based education is being evolved into the modern computer-based one, with a tendency to a combination of bo...

the realization optimality theory is a recent development in the original optimality theory which is proposed to deal with morphological issues especially the inflectional ones. its main idea is to consider the morphological realization rules as ranked violable language-specific constraints that control the realization processes and provide phonological information of grammatical morphemes. thi...

the myth of the descent of adam, with all its complexities, has being preoccupied the mind of human kind from the very beginning stages of creation. the holy books of torah, bible and quran have each paid to different angles of this legend. studying the modern poetry, it can be found that the contemporary poets have been under the influence of quran and have used the teachings of old and new te...

This article is a conceptual exploration of Ezafe in Modern Persian. I will consider cases where Ezafe seems to be conceptually non-neutral. In certain cases of the ‘X-e Y’ construction, X and Y can change their places with a shift in meaning while they are apparently frozen in their positions in other cases of Ezafe construction. The question to address here is if the Ezafe element -e marks an...