this study purported to compare and contrast the use of self-mention and evidentials as two mtadiscourse features in opinion columns of persian and english newspapers. the theoretical basis of this study is the idea that metadiscourse features vary across cultural boundaries. for this purpose, 150 persian and 150 english opinion columns were collected based on three factors of topic, audience a...

abstract the present study investigated the effects of task types and involvement load hypothesis on incidental learning of 10 target words (tws) in junior high schools (jhss) in givi, ardabil. the tasks deployed in this study were two input-based tasks (reading plus dictionary use with an involvement index of 3, and reading plus gap-fill task with an involvement index of 2), and one output-ba...

the present study investigated construct equivalence of multiple choice (mc) and constructed response (cr) item types across stem and content equivalent mc and cr items (item type ‘a’), non-stem-equivalent but content equivalent mc and cr items (item type ‘b’), and non-stem and non-content equivalent mc and cr items (item type ‘c’). one hundred seventy english-major undergraduates completed mc ...

according to coates’s (2004, as cited in zhang, 2010) definition of "conversational dominance" (p.111), it refers to the phenomenon of a speaker dominating others in interaction. specifically, it means how a speaker makes use of certain strategies to get the floor and maintain the floor. thus, the amount of talk is the main measurement for the dominance of the conversation. whether a speaker do...

in chapter 1, charactrizations of fragmentability, which are obtained by namioka (37), ribarska (45) and kenderov-moors (32), are given. also the connection between fragmentability and its variants and other topics in banach spaces such as analytic space, the radone-nikodym property, differentiability of convex functions, kadec renorming are discussed. in chapter 2, we use game characterization...

در سراسر دنیا بیش از 500 میلیون نفر به هپاتیتهای b و c مبتلا هستند. حتی گزارشاتی مبنی بر ابتلای افراد واکسینه به هپاتیت b نیز در نقاط مختلف وجود دارد. از طرفی با توجه به اینکه واکسن مناسبی بر علیه هپاتیت c وجود نداشته و یکی از مسائل مهم در پروژه واکسن ، یافتن ادجوانتی موثر و مناسب در واکسنهای انسانی است ،در این تحقیق خاصیت چپرونی و ادجوانتی پروتئین ساب یونیت بتایhsp90 انسانی مورد بررسی قرار گرف...