This study investigated the effect of story-based technique, L1 translation, and Whatsapp emoticon puzzle solving on EFL learners’ learning proverbs. From among 90 female intermediate level learners at two language institutes in Qom, Iran, 60 homogeneous students were chosen following the administration of a sample of Nelson proficiency test and a pre-test. The 60 participants were then assigne...

The analysis of macroeconomic variables for current situation in Iran indicates a Conundrum. Solving this puzzle is vital for Central Bank of Iran in order to choose an appropriate approach for monetary policy and banking supervision. Increase in liquidity growth rate, significant decrease of inflation rate and interest rate rigidity are the three sides of this puzzle. This study designs an inn...

The Jobs Puzzle, introduced in a book about automated reasoning, is a logic puzzle solvable by some “intelligent sixth graders,” but the formalization of the puzzle by the authors was, according to them, “sometimes difficult and sometimes tedious.” The puzzle thus presents a triple challenge: 1) formalize it in a non-difficult, nontedious way; 2) formalize it in a way that adheres closely to th...

Were it not for the antiphospholipid antibody syndrome, the United States might now have a National Health Service. That’s my conclusion from finding direct links between the most prominent victim of the syndrome—Queen Anne—and current debates over Scotland’s imminent secession from England. This September, Scots will hold a plebiscite on whether to dissolve a partnership that has lasted since ...

Cognitive assessment typically involves assessing a person’s cognitive performance in unfamiliar and arguably unnatural clinical surroundings. User-centred approaches to assessment and monitoring, driven by issues such as enjoyability and familiarity, are largely absent. Everyday technologies, for example, smartphones represent an opportunity to obtain an objective assessment of a person’s cogn...

iran, with a yearly production of 147,000 tons of plums, is one of the most important plum producers in theworld. this study was conducted to compare the phenological and pomological characteristics of 18 plum cultivars. an experiment was conducted using a randomized complete block design with three replications at the khorasan razavi agricultural and natural resource and agricultural research ...

this experiment was conducted to study the effect of plastic mulch on the growth and some physiological characteristics of two strawberry cultivars (paros and queen elisa) under drought stress. a factorial experiment was performed based on randomized complete block design with four treatments, including mulch, without mulch, normal irrigation (control) and deficit irrigation (-10 bar) with thre...

A disentanglement puzzle consists of mechanically interlinked pieces, and the puzzle is solved by disentangling one piece from another set of pieces. A string puzzle consists of strings entangled with one or more wooden pieces. We consider the generalized string puzzle problem whose input is the layout of strings and a wooden board with holes embedded in the 3-dimensional Euclidean space. We pr...