as the canon is shaped by white male standards rewriting the canonical works of literature is one of the ways through which postcolonial writers subvert the authority of the masters. writing in the language of the masters the colonized writers use the very suppressive tool in the hands of the masters i.e. their language to question the validity of their norms. regarded by most critics to be the...

abstract in aggregate, active forms of reactive silica with mineral names are sometimes associated with sand and gravel in concrete mixture. alkali hydroxides originated from alkalis in the cement or other resources form an alkaline silica gel with this reactive silica which becomes swallowed and expanded during time causing damage to concrete. there have been growing researches on alkaline r...

abstract this study aimed at analyzing a corpus of emails gathered from iranian students studying in england. the corpus contained 996 emails that were investigated by employing the framework of chen (2006) to find common patterns in the discourse of these emails. another aim of the study was to find how two request acts (want statements and query preparatory) were used in the emails. the...

Background and Objectives: In recent years, edible films and coatings that are nutritious and able to significantly control microbial loads for the food safety have been further popular. In this study, effects of nanoclay film of citrus essential oil on bacterial pathogens of Listeria monocytogenes, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Streptococcus iniae and Salmonella typhi were investigated in fishery p...

abstract although music possesses some kind of power and using it has been welcome by many students in language classrooms, it seems that they take a non-serious image of the lesson while listening to songs and they may think that it is a matter of fun. the main objective of the present study was to investigate whether learning a foreign language through musical texts (songs) can have an impac...

In this research, the effect of organic fertilizers was studied on the growth performance of carps fry. This experiment was conducted in a completely randomized design with seven treatments and three replications in 300 liters of tanks within 3 months. 60 pieces of fish fry with an average weight of 0.6 ± 0.05 g were randomly storage in each tank per 0.5: 1.5: 2: 6 (respectively, 5%, 15%, 20% a...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of Lactobacillus acidophilus and Pediococcus pentosaceus  on hematological, immunological and growth parameters of common carp (Cyprinus carpio). 180 carp weighted 14±1.44 g were distributed in three treatments. Treatment 1: commercial diets with Lactobacilus acidophilus 1.5g/10Kg (1010CFUg-1), treatment 2: Pediococcus pentosaceus 1.5g/10Kg (1010...