a’ view of nature within the framework of garden and in relation with human needs and drives that satisfy theneed to be rooted has caused the representation of nature in garden to be regarded as cultural heritage. garden and garden designing are suitable cases for us to study cultural characteristics and traits. thus, human beings have searched their eternal interest in an ideal and unattainabl...

Following Swales’s (1981) works on genre analysis, studies on different sections of Research Articles (RAs) in various languages and fields abound; however, only scant attention has been directed toward abstracts written in Persian, and in the field of literature. Moreover, claims made by Lores (2004) regarding the correspondence of two types of abstracts with different models, and by Martin (2...

INTRODUCTION Auditory temporal resolution and auditory temporal ordering are two major components of the auditory temporal processing abilities that contribute to speech perception and language development. Auditory temporal resolution and auditory temporal ordering can be evaluated by gap-in-noise (GIN) and pitch-pattern-sequence (PPS) tests, respectively. In this survey, the effect of bilingu...

STUDY DESIGN Observational study. PURPOSE To cross-culturally translate the Orebro Musculoskeletal Pain Screening Questionnaire (OMPQ) into Persian and then evaluate its psychometric properties (reliability, validity, ceiling, and flooring effects). OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE To the authors' knowledge, prior to this study there has been no validated instrument to screen the risk of chronicity i...

INTRODUCTION In the present era, thesauri as tools in indexing play an effective role in integrating retrieval preventing fragmentation as well as a multiplicity of terminologies and also in providing information content of documents. GOALS This study aimed to investigate the keywords of articles indexed in IranMedex in terms of origin, structure and indexing situation and their Compliance wi...

Abstract In the “Afghan Genizah,” a recently acquired collection of texts in Judeo-Persian, Early New-Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, and Aramaic from tenth to thirteenth centuries, I recognized Judeo-Persian fragment Jewish, anti-Christian polemic work. This may be – or not part Toledoth Yeshu literature. It contains Gospel quotation Syriac Hebrew letters.

PEnTrans is an automatic bidirectional English/ Persian text translator. It contains two main modules, PEnT1,2. PEnT1 translates English sentences into Persian and PEnT2 performs translation from Persian to English. WSD which is an important part in translation is done in both systems by employing a combination of extended dictionary and corpus based approaches in PEnT1 and employing a combinat...

A garden-path sentence has temporary ambiguity that a reader or listener need to resolve. Prosody is well-known to have effects on sentence comprehension so it is expected that it will affect the interpretation of garden-path sentences. However, in an auditory comprehension test with natural speech, the garden-path effect may be unclear because a listener can typically resolve the ambiguity and...