while parkinson's disease (pd) has traditionally been defined by motor symptoms, many researches have indicated that mild cognitive impairment is common in non-demented pd patients. the purpose of this study was to compare verbal fluency performance in non-demented parkinson's disease patients with healthy controls.in this cross-sectional study thirty non-demented parkinson's disease patients a...

in this paper, analysis and simulation of media gateway controller (megaco) based cops (common open policy server) which is a protocol defined in ietf (internet engineering task force) to transport configuration requests and deliver the policies is presented. for this scenario, three queuing models include m/m/1, m/m/c and m/d/c were applied . then, some of the key performance benchmarks look l...

Researchers and scholars have been attracted by the idea of using integrated writing task along with independent writing task to best assess the EFL learners’ writing competence. This study was conducted to compare the writing performance of EFL students in integrated and independent writing tasks. It also aimed to find out if writing performance varies with task types. A number of thirty Irani...

This study investigated the effect of sequencing tasks from simple to complex along +/- reasoning demands on fluency in writing task performance of English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners. The participants of this study included 90 intermediate EFL learners from three intact class divisions at the Islamic Azad Uni- versity, Shahr-e-Qods Branch. They were distributed in three groups: Experime...

background the critical role that the board plays in governance of universities clarifies the necessity of evaluating its performance. this study was aimed to evaluate the performance of the boards of medical universities and provide solutions to enhance its performance.   methods the first phase of present study was a qualitative research in which data were collected through face-to-face semi-...