Hedges, as tools to express tentativeness and doubt, have been studied in plenty of research papers in the Iranian EFL research setting. However, their use in a learner corpus, portraying Iranian learner English, is in need of more research attention. With this end in view, this study aimed at investigating how Iranian EFL learners who have majored in English-related fields in Iran deployed hed...

introduction: interhemispheric transmission of signal is done by corpus callosum (cc) as the largest fiber tract in brain. cc comprised 5 segments of rostrum, genu, body, isthmus, and splenium. contradictory reports exist about sexual dimorphism of cc. we designed this study to assess probable sexual differences of cc and its different parts in men and women. methods: we analyzed magnetic reson...

this article studies the depiction of chinese miners in the ghanaian news website entitled modern ghana. a total of 87 articles comprising 43752 words were retrieved. van leeuwen’s (2008) theory of the representation of the social actors was utilised to examine the depiction of chinese miners in the ghanaian press. in this regard, six applicable tools were used and these include exclusion, role...

background: x-linked lissencephaly with ambiguous genitalia (xlag) is a recently described genetic disorder, in which patients present with lissencephaly, agenesis of the corpus callosum, refractory epilepsy of neonatal onset, acquired microcephaly, and male genotype with ambiguous genitalia. xlag is responsible for a severe neurological disorder of neonatal onset in boys. a gyration defect con...

Background: Leptin, the product of the obesity (ob) gene, acts as a signaling adipokine for modulating food intake, energy metabolism and reproductive functions in mammals. Leptin’s effects on the reproductive system at various levels of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis have been established. Moreover, the direct and local effect of leptin on bovine oocyte maturation and corpus luteum fu...

background: to achieve multiple oocytes for in vitro fertilization, ovulation induction is induced by gonadotropins however, it has several effects on oocytes and embryo quality and endometrium receptivity. the aim of this study was to assess ultrastructural changes of corpus luteum after ovarian induction using human menopausal gonadotropin (hmg) and human chorionic gonadotropin (hcg) during l...

background: congenital toxoplasmosis is one cause of abortion. infection can disrupt ovarian cycles and because toxoplasmosis is an infectious disease may have a similar effect on the ovaries. the purpose of this study was to investigate the pathological changes in the ovaries due to toxoplasmosis.   methods: tachyzoites of toxoplasma gondii were harvested from peritoneal fluid of mice, experim...