abstract pragmatics is the study of communicative action in its sociocultural context. communicative action includes not only using speech acts (such as apologizing, complaining, complimenting, and requesting), but also engaging in different types of discourse and participating in speech events of varying length and complexity. the present study aimed to investigate the assessment of pragm...

the importance of writing as a complex skill in applied linguistics has drawn the attention of many researchers to evaluate textbooks in order to help learners gain self-sufficiency and autonomy in the field of language use and communication. investigations have shown that developments in textbooks evaluation can promote the quality of pedagogies and consequently the learning. this study attemp...

In order to evaluate the effect of terminal moisture stress on 20 barley promising lines (Hordeum vulgare) and for determination of their relative tolerance, an experiment was conducted based on randomized complete blocks design with three replications in growing season of 2010-2011. In this research some old indices such as, stress susceptibility index (SSI), tolerance index (TOL), mean produc...

Canonical discriminant analysis (CDA) in combination with cluster analysis and genotype by trait (GT) biplot analysis methods were used to assess 9 wheat cultivars having different degrees of tolerance along with 36 F1 hybrids derived from partial diallel crosses, using stress tolerance indices, in two levels (well watered and cessation of irrigation at pollination stage). Cluster analysis clas...

a novel acrylic acid-functionalized fe3o4 magnetic nanoparticle with a core-shell structure was developed for utilization as a heterogeneous organosuperacid in chemical transformations. the structural, surface, and magnetic characteristics of the nanosized catalyst were investigated by various techniques such as transmission electron microscopy (tem), thermogravimetric analysis (tga), and ft-ir...

uncertainty in the financial market will be driven by underlying brownian motions, while the assets are assumed to be general stochastic processes adapted to the filtration of the brownian motions. the goal of this study is to calculate the accumulated wealth in order to optimize the expected terminal value using a suitable utility function. this thesis introduced the lim-wong’s benchmark fun...

the present study was an attempt to compare the effect of peer metalinguistic corrective feedback on elementary and intermediate efl learners speaking ability to see which level benefits more from this type of feedback. to this end, 117 female efl learners at grade 3, al-zahra high school in kermanshah, iran were non-randomly chosen. the homogeneity of the participants was attained through a pi...

کمبود آب از مهم ترین مشکلات تولید موفق محصولات کشاورزی در کشور ایران است. این پژوهش به منظور بررسی شاخص های تحمل به تنش و شناسایی ژنوتیپ­های متحمل به خشکی ارقام کلزا انجام گرفت. در این آزمایش 28 رقم کلزا در قالب طرح بلوک­های کامل تصادفی در دو محیط رطوبتی نرمال و تنش خشکی ارزیابی شد. به منظور ارزیابی تحمل به خشکی از شاخص حساسیت به خشکی (ssi) فیشر و مورر، شاخص­های تحمل (tol) و متوسط تولید (mp) رو...

nowadays, the development of anti cancer drugs is an important subject in pharmacology. bisphosphonates (b.p) are a great choice for design and production of the types of drugs which not only could perform as anti cancer agents but also could inhibit the function of acetyl cholinesterase (ache). ache hydrolyzes the acetylcholine (which is a neurotransmitter in nervous system) using the oh in i...