due to its location in the dry belt, the vast country of iran has always been faced with the problem of water shortages. in such a climate one should take measures to increase the productivity and improve the efficiency of irrigation through expansion of water-conserving technology in the agricultural sector, as this is the largest and most important consumer of water. therefore this study aime...

abused in humans increases the reward value of ICSS, Department of Neuropharmacology and drug withdrawal decreases the reward value of ICSS The Scripps Research Institute (reviewed by Koob et al., 1993). The increases in reward La Jolla, California 92037 threshold or decreases in reward have been observed following the withdrawal of opiates, stimulants, and al-Drug addiction is usually defined ...

Correction to Escalada F, Marco E, Duarte E, Muniesa JM, Boza R, Tejero M, Cáceres E. Assessment of angle velocity in girls with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. Scoliosis 2009; 4:20. Correction After publication of this work [1], we noted that we inadvertently failed to include the complete list of all coauthors. The full list of authors has now been added and the Authors' contributions and Co...

Prague, June 2007. c ©2007 Association for Computational Linguistics Bayesian Identi ation of Cognates and Corresponden es T. Mark Ellison Linguisti s, University of Western Australia, and Analith Ltd mark markellison.net Abstra t This paper presents a Bayesian approa h to omparing languages: identifying ognates and the regular orresponden es that ompose them. A simple model of language is exte...

fails to resolve, demonstrating that, as with the selection of other neural precursors, the resolution of amos expression involves lateral inhibition. In the antennal imagi-nal disc, amos mRNA is detected in three semicircular The peripheral nervous system (PNS) is made up of an bands that correspond to the sites where olfactory sen-array of different sensory structures that detect aspects sill...

Most postcolonial African writers choose English as the language of their literary works for the reason of wider audience reception but come to indigenize it to decolonize the colonial tool, i.e. colonial language. The translinguistic process of relexification means subverting colonial cultural imperialism and colonial linguistic imposition through the dialogic interaction opened in the w...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between students‘ explicit knowledge in grammar and their translation ability. The importance of grammatical knowledge and its effectiveness in translation quality motivated the researcher to run this study and consider grammatical knowledge in Per- sian as the source language of Iranian students. It is clear that grammar is an area ...

background: toxoplasmosis, a worldwide zoonotic disease, is caused by toxo­plasma gondii . the distribution of genetic diversity of t. gondii in wild animals is of great importance to understand the transmission of the parasite in the environ­ment. however, little is known about t. gondii prevalence in wild animals and birds in china. methods: we conducted the genetic characterization of t. gon...

"In this article we analyze students' appropriation of a new textual genre: audio description. We start from the application didactic sequence in French as foreign language description script by means external regulations (models scripts and Spanish). This qualitative research focuses on study initial final products, i.e. texts produced students French, well questionnaire to determine their per...