bilingual dictionary use in l2 writing test performance has recently been the subject of debate. opinions differ according to how the trait is understood and whether the system favors the process-oriented or product-oriented views towards the assessment and writing skill. given the need for more empirical support, this study is aimed at investigating the availability of bilingual dictionary use...

typology solution in architecture science seeks classifying constructions and spaces in terms of join features. typology studies can be infrastructure of design in micro and minor levels. therefore being oblivious of it in architecture and city planning can lead to state of chaos in urban aspect and makes heterogeneous urban textures. current paper seeks to find factors influencing on formation...

‎let $i$ be an ideal in a regular local ring $(r,n)$‎, ‎we will find‎ ‎bounds on the first and the last betti numbers of‎ ‎$(a,m)=(r/i,n/i)$‎. ‎if $a$ is an artinian ring of the embedding‎ ‎codimension $h$‎, ‎$i$ has the initial degree $t$ and $mu(m^t)=1$‎, ‎we call $a$ a {it $t-$extended stretched local ring}‎. ‎this class of‎ ‎local rings is a natural generalization of the class of stretched ...

Sign language recognition has spawned more and more interest in human–computer interaction society. The major challenge that SLR recognition faces now is developing methods that will scale well with increasing vocabulary size with a limited set of training data for the signer independent application. The automatic SLR based on hidden Markov models (HMMs) is very sensitive to gesture's shape inf...

the aim of this study was to find out whether there is seasonality of month of birth in children with diabetes in mashhad and if so whether it differs from that of general papulation. 161 children and adolescents (0-18 years) with type 1 diabetes born between 1983-2001 were included the study. the results were analyzed by student’s t test and chi-square test and a p value<0.05 was considered si...

abstract objective: mindfulness is a part of mind-body medicine to increase the quality of life in patients with chronic diseases like diabetes. regarding the importance of quality of life in patients with diabetes, and the role of training on its improvement, this study was done to evaluate the effectiveness of group training of mindfulness on quality of life in type 2diabeticpatients. materia...

Introduction: To evaluate the effects of using sodium hypochlorite irrigant on pull-out bond strength of self-etch and self-adhesive resin cements to dentin. Methods: Sixty intact premolars were decoronated and the root canals were prepared by step-back technique. The teeth were divided into two groups according to the irrigant used during root canal treatment: 5.25% sodium hypochlorite and nor...

abstract aim and background: the key purpose of the study was to investigation the relationship of job burnout and some of job variables like type and level of responsibility, service and mangement experiences. method and materials: this descriptive study was conducted on 245 managers and vice-chancellors randomly selected by the cluster-sampling technique. they were assessed by job burnout que...