the present study was an attempt to conduct a contrastive analysis between general english (ge) and english for specific purposes (esp) texts in terms of cohesion and cohesive devices. to this end, thirty texts from different esp and ge textbooks were randomly selected. then they were analyzed manually to find the frequency of cohesive devices. cohesive devices include reference, substitution, ...

the present paper deals with criminal issues. for example, legal injunction on the necessity of returning a deposit has a legal nature and legal injunction on the punishment of those who breach the trust has a criminal nature. existing social issues are the basis of classification of some instances into the issue, some of which are based on variation and others on quality. therefore, the motiva...

Background: Individuals characteristics including gender, education level, job experience and job rank are affective and significant variables in work ethic. This research try to study this affection on whistle blowing in audit profession. Thus, the aim of this research is to study of gender effect on whistle blowing as an ethical behavior. Method: The research method is descriptive-correlation...

the speech act of disagreement has been one of the speech acts that has received the least attention in the field of pragmatics. this study investigates the ways power relations, social distance, formality of the context, gender, and language proficiency (for efl learners) influence disagreement and politeness strategies. the participants of the study were 200 male and female native persian s...

درک الگوی توزیع مکانی ماکروفون خاک بدلیل اثرات آن روی فرآیندهای اکوسیستم بسیار مهم است. لیکن اطلاعات کمی در این خصوص وجود دارد. درمورد تنوع زیستی ارگانیسم ها وجانداران خاکزی که ازاجزای مهم وکلیدی درهرسیستم اکولوژیکی هستند و در بهبود حاصلخیزی خاک و تولیدات زمین وپایداری اکوسیستم ها(ازطریق فرآیندهای بیولوژیک)نقش عمده دارند تحقیقات کمی انجام شده است. این تحقیق جهت بررسی الگوی مکانی پارامترهای تنوع...

with the introduction of communicative language teaching, a large number of studies have concerned with students’ oral participation in language classrooms. although the importance of classroom participation is evident, some language learners are unwilling to engage in oral activities. this passivity and unwillingness to participate in language classroom discussions is known as “reticence”. rev...

Abstract: The main objective of this research is to identify the factors affecting the importers' decision to buy Iranian handmade carpet  . This research is applied and is qualitative in terms of the type of data used. The research data were collected using interview with Iranian handmade carpet importers in the European :union: who were present at The 25th International Handmade Carpet Exhibi...

target tracking is the tracking of an object in an image sequence. target tracking in image sequence consists of two different parts: 1- moving target detection 2- tracking of moving target. in some of the tracking algorithms these two parts are combined as a single algorithm. the main goal in this thesis is to provide a new framework for effective tracking of different kinds of moving target...