Foreign language learners tend to avoid phonological difficulties and simply transfer sounds whether from their L1 or any pre-existing L2. Phonological awareness (PA) gives students an active role in understanding their own potential in improving pronunciation through several methods. However, such methods are likely to be restricted to only passive learning methods, such as repetition, reading...

In this work, NdFeO3 nanoparticles were synthesized through a simple co-precipitation method. The formation of NdFeO3 particles was verified by X-ray powder diffraction, infrared spectroscopy, vibrating sample magnetometer, and transmission electron microscopy analysis. Polyaniline and chitosan were employed as proper support for production of metal nanoparticles. Novel Pt...

The automation products have been applied in various industries, especially in the water disposing industry. This paper describes the design of the hardware and the software of the monitoring system of sewage treatment which is based on S7-300 PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) and the Profibus bus technology. The hardware of PLC includes the power supply, CPU (Central Processing Unit), analog...

Different companies have developed the fieldbuses for more than 20 years. A wide variety of fieldbuses have been set up in the industrial automation system in different time periods under different environment. Therefore, during the development of industrial automation systems and control applications, the developer has to consider the interconnection of heterogeneous equipment over different c...

This paper presents an innovative longitudinal study developed during three years, using a design-based approach consisting of four phases. Taking into account the analysis of students’ behavior and opinions, teachers redesigned the peer assessment (PA) strategies used in the context of a Distance Education blended learning module, of a Doctoral Program, in order to improve the effectiveness of...

Reluctance towards implementation of precision agriculture (PA) seems to be based on lackof consideration to education, extension, and research sectors. The objective of this study isto identify educational, extensional, and research requirements in application of the PAsystem. The research population included all the experts in Qazvin province who are familiarwith PA concepts and PA’s equipmen...

Description The Function performs a parallel analysis using simulated polychoric correlation matrices. The nth-percentile of the eigenvalues distribution obtained from both the randomly generated and the real data polychoric correlation matrices is returned. A plot comparing the two types of eigenvalues (real and simulated) will help determine the number of real eigenvalues that outperform rand...