Market saturation, increased competition, change in tastes and needs of customers have made Iranian companies, especially canned industries, face various challenges in relation to consumers. Under such conditions, cannery companies with the ability for proper use of available facilities and equipment such as design and development of new products, supplying high-quality and economic products an...

speech emotion recognition (ser) is a new and challenging research area with a wide range of applications in man-machine interactions. the aim of a ser system is to recognize human emotion by analyzing the acoustics of speech sound. in this study, we propose spectral pattern features (sps) and harmonic energy features (hes) for emotion recognition. these features extracted from the spectrogram ...

The main purpose of this study is to investigate how voice is realized by Iranian EFL learners in persuasive English and Persian text types. This discourse-related notion is a required criterion for writing acceptable English. However, L2 learners from cultures other than English might face problems in realizing it, or even ignore it all through their writing. In this connection, the present st...

Background and aims: The most common cause of acute flaccid paralysis of all ages is Guillain-Barresyndrome (GBS). Further understanding of this disease is important because of its life-threateningnature in life. The aim of this study was to conduct a 10-year survey on epidemiological and clinicalfeatures of GBS in Tohid and Besat hospitals, Sanandaj, Iran, from 2005 to 2014.<...

The main purpose of this study is to investigate how voice is realized by Iranian EFL learners in persuasive English and Persian text types. This discourse-related notion is a required criterion for writing acceptable English. However, L2 learners from cultures other than English might face problems in realizing it, or even ignore it all through their writing. In this connection, the present st...

Post-mineralization activities may cause difficulties in the process of ore modeling in porphyry deposits. Sungun, NW Iran, is one of the porphyry copper deposits, in which dyke intrusions have made ore modeling more complicated than expected. Among different kinds of dykes, two types were chosen and the consequent geostatistical analyses were applied on. In this study, simple directional vario...

background: besides of transmitting several diseases to animals, and tick paralysis, ornithodoros lahorensis induce skin lesions. this experiment was done to determine histopathological features of adult o. lahorensis bite on rat. methods: in this investigation adult male rats were infested with o. lahorensis ticks. animals were divided into two groups and euthanized two days and two weeks afte...

the present study is an attempt to provide a current synopsis of world englishes within globalized communities, as well as theoretical and applied feasibility of global linguistic features of english as an international language (eil). to do so, first, three main reactions against the spread of english by scholars around the world are discussed. then, the possibility of describing and teaching ...