This study investigated the impact of semantic clustering on Iranian EFL learners’ vocabulary retention at advanced level. Participants were female learners randomly assigned to two groups of 15. Four instruments (TOEFL test; vocabulary pretest; immediate posttest, and delayed recall posttest) were used. The experimental group underwent semantic clustering vocabulary presentation in which the l...

conclusions since telomerase is expressed in 90% of cancer cells, its inhibition can be considered as a goal of cancer treatment. results about 90% of cancers need a high level of this enzyme to continue cell multiplication. since this enzyme set is absent in normal cells, or present at a very low level, use of telomerase inhibitors cannot have significant effects on normal cells. evidence acqu...

We describes a framework in which to view the end-to-endindependently-verifiable (E2E) voting systems based on mixnets. We use the framework to invent new systems that combine front and back-ends from existing systems.

in a voice conversion system speech signal of a speaker (i.e. source speaker) is modified so that it sounds as if it had been pronounced by b speaker (i.e. target speaker). this process, sometimes, is called speaker conversion (changing speaker identity). achieved signal from speaker conversion system is desired to have high quality and very natural. to satisfy this, three major methods are pro...