abstract: the present study is an attempt to find out cultural exophoric references in iranian high-school elt textbooks and touch stone series to compare the frequency of occurrence of such references in these books. the purpose is to find out which of the series of the books under investigation impose a greater referential burden on efl learners as far as their reading comprehension of the ...

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...

abstract: advertisements are the most accessible type of authentic materials, and this is one reason why they are used more and more in english teaching classes. for this cause, studies in the field of advertisements are very widespread nowadays. for pun is one aspect which makes advertisements more interesting, it is used more than before in advertisements. use of puns makes an advertisement m...

1.1 introduction “i see translation as the attempt to produce a text so transparent that it does not seem to be translated. a good translation is like a pane of glass. you only notice that it’s there when there are little imperfections- scratches, bubbles. ideally, there shouldn’t be any. it should never call attention to itself.” “norman shapiro” (venuti, 1995:1) edward fitzgerald is the br...

abstract this study aimed at investigating the translation of interjections from english into persian in dubbing. to carry out this study the expressive secondary interjections found in the film four weddings and a funeral and their equivalent in persian dubbed version were analyzed through the strategies proposed by cuenca. the descriptive analysis of the corpus showed that (strategy b) i.e...

چکیده هدف اصلی این پژوهش تعیین رابطه استراتژیهای خود رهبری و خلاقیت اعضای هیات علمی دانشگاه علم و صنعت بوده است. در این پژوهش از روش توصیفی از نوع همبستگی استفاده شده است. جامعه آماری پژوهش کلیه اعضای هیات علمی دانشگاه علم و صنعت در سال تحصیلی 88-1387 بود که بالغ بر345 نفربودندو از این تعداد، 119 نفر استاد با استفاده از روش نمونه گیری تصادفی طبقه ای متناسب با حجم انتخاب شد. ابزار جمع آوری داده...

the central purpose of this study was to conduct a case study about the role of self monitoring in teacher’s use of motivational strategies. furthermore it focused on how these strategies affected students’ motivational behavior. although many studies have been done to investigate teachers’ motivational strategies use (cheng & d?rnyei, 2007; d?rnyei & csizer, 1998; green, 2001, guilloteaux & d?...

the rationale behind the present study is that particular learning strategies produce more effective results when applied together. the present study tried to investigate the efficiency of the semantic-context strategy alone with a technique called, keyword method. to clarify the point, the current study seeked to find answer to the following question: are the keyword and semantic-context metho...

this thesis is presented 10 ghz voltage controlled ring oscillator for high speed application. the voltage controlled ring oscillator was designed and fabricated in 0.13یm cmos technology. the oscillator is 7-stages ring oscillator with one inverter replaced by nand-gate for shutting down in the ring oscillator during idle mode. tri-state inverter was used to control of 126 bit vector in ri...

in this thesis, we consider a mathematical model of cancer with completely unknown parameters. we study the stability of critical points which are biologically admissible. then we consider a control on the system and introduce situations at which solutions are attracted to critical points and so the cancer disease has auto healing. the lyapunov stability method is used for estimating the un...