the present study attempts to investigate parsing preferences (early vs. late closure) of native and l2 learners of both english and persian when they read ambiguous relative clauses. the purpose is to find out if l2 learners process l2 linguistic input in the way monolingual speakers of that language do. the participants took tests including 10 test sentences plus 10 distractors, each followed...

purpose: the gole of this study is to survey attitudes of council members' of rural relative to the preference quality of life in rural areas of villages of dehgolan in kurditan province. it reveals the priority of indices in terms of the quality of life improvement in this region. methodology: this study was descriptive - analytical. data was collected through a questionnaire survey. the study...

in this study the effect of month, place and different years on the preferencevalue of bromus tomentellus in semi-steppe region was studied. the preferencevalue of the bromus tomentellus was studied in two years and four months in three sites as cheshme anjir (fars), badamstan (zanjan) firuzkuh (tehran). to determine the preferencevalue of species the two methods of as preference index and timi...

this study examined whether processing ambiguous sentences containing relative clauses (rcs) following a complex determiner phrase (dp) by persian-speaking learners of l2 english with different proficiency and working memory capacities (wmcs) is affected by semantic priming. the semantic relationship studied was one between the subject/verb of the main clause and one of the dps in the complex d...

Feeding habits of yellowfin seabream, Acanthopagrus latus was investigated in coastal waters of the Northern Persian Gulf. This investigation was conducted by monthly sampling of thirty fish from September 2011 through August 2012. Fish size ranged from 17.98 ± 2.07 to 32.31 ± 6.52 cm in total length and from 134.01 ± 45.62 to 720.46 ± 292.58 g in weight. The highest value of gastro-somatic ind...

Fluoroscopic overlay images rendered from pre-operative volumetric data can provide additional guidance for physicians during catheter ablation procedures for treatment of atrial fibrillation (AFib). As these overlay images are compromised by cardiac and respiratory motion, motion compensation methods have been proposed. The approaches so far either require simultaneous biplane imaging for 3-D ...