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1. introduction isfahan oil refinery (isfahan, iran) is responsible for the production of huge amounts of oil waste. as the released organic compounds are highly toxic, carcinogenic, and mutagenic, they can potentially contaminate the soil and groundwater resources of the adjacent area. this is particularly important in isfahan where arid/semi-arid climate has limited the access to adequate sur...

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T h e p r i n c i p l e s u n d e r l y i n g a c o m p u t e r b a s e d t r e a t m e n t m e t h o d f o r l a n g u a g e a c q u i s i t i o n i n n o n s p e a k i n g a u t i s t i c ch i I dren are descr i bed. T h e m a i n p r i n c i p l e i n v o l v e s e n c o u r a g e m e n t o f e x p l o r a t o r y l e a r n i n g w i t h m i n i m u m a d u l t i n t e r f e r e n c e . T h ...

T h e p a p e r i s a i m e d a t e x a m i n i n g t h e r e l a t i o n s h i p b e t w e e n t h e t h r e e t o p i c s o f t h e w o r k s h o p s t h a t g a v e r i s e t o t h i s b o o k : s e c u r i t y , f a u l t t o l e r a n c e , a n d s o f t w a r e a s s u r a n c e . T h o s e t h r e e t o p i c s c a n b e v i e w e d a s d i f f e r e n t f a c e t s o f d e p e n d a b i...

hybrid rice varieties are potentially higher yielding than the best inbred varieties and perform better under adverse conditions of drought and salinity. one of the major impediments for seed production of hybrid rice is incomplete panicle exsertion in the cytoplasmic male sterile lines. the unexserted spikelets which are left inside the flag leaf sheath remain unfertile. this research was focu...

the present paper is concerned with the structural characteristics and contents of the russian resistance poets from the outset up to the end of the world war ii, 1941-1945. regarding the linguistic and literary structures of the resistance poetry of this period, such features as changes in the lexical structure of poems, outspokenness, proximity of poetry to slogans can be easily observed. sem...

o b e c o m e f u l l y l i t e r a t e i n t o d a y ’ s world, students must become proficient i n t h e n e w l i t e r a c i e s o f 2 1 s t c e n t u ry technologies. As a result, literacy e d u c a t o r s h a v e a r e s p o n s i b i l i t y t o e f f e c tively integrate these new technologies i n t o t h e c u r r i c u l u m , p r e p a r i n g s t u d e n t s for...

nitrogen forms exert significant effects on physiological and morphological characteristics of plant. in this study, the effects of ammonium, nitrate, and ammonium-nitrate on pepper plants were investigated in soil culture, as well as in solution culture. in the soil culture, 3, 4-dimethylpyrazole phosphate (dmpp) was used as a standard nitrification inhibitor to guarantee the presence of ammon...