abstractlistening plays a significant role in daily communication and educational processes. in spite of its importance, listening has long been the neglected skill in second and foreign language acquisition, research, teaching, and assessment. however, on account of the entire challenges efl learners encounter in classrooms due to the listening complexity, some pre-listening activities as supp...

Let G be a split connected reductive group over a finite field Fp with algebraic closure k, fix an Iwahori subgroup B ⊂ G(Fp([[t]])) and let F l = G(k((t)))/Bk denote the affine flag variety of G. Let q denote a power of p and fix a prime l 6= p. In [GH], the authors study the Jordan-Hölder series for objects in the Hecke category P q (F l,Ql). This is the category of B-equivariant perverse Wei...

Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) is the most common primary brain malignancy in humans and has a limited survival (median of 14.6 months). The goal of treatment is supportive rather than curative. Patients with a GBM struggle with uncertainty related to the illness trajectory. This uncertainty is compounded when possible progression is noted on imaging. Pseudoprogression (PsP) is an early treatmen...

We present a method for the analysis of meta-analytic functional imaging data. It is based on Activation Likelihood Estimation (ALE) and subsequent model-based clustering using Gaussian mixture models, expectation-maximization (EM) for model fitting, and the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) for model selection. Our method facilitates the clustering of activation maxima from previously perfo...

Hepatic resection is a commonly performed procedure for a variety of malignant and benign hepatic tumours [1, 2]. Historically, liver resection, irrespective of the indication, was associ‐ ated with a high morbidity and mortality [2-4]. During the last decades however, perioperative outcome after hepatic resection has improved, due to increased knowledge of liver anatomy and function, improveme...

the aim of this investigation was to compare the level and the pattern of attention demands of a volleyball jumping serve using a probe reaction time (rt) technique. 14 junior elite volleyball players performed 60 jumping serves (js) with their preferred hand. jumping serve was performance as the primary task and verbal rt that was administered in four probe positions (pp) as secondary task. re...

S O P V i e w i s a graphical u s e r env ironment f o r SOP OODBMS I. S O P V i e w supports the frame-based visual specification of object-oriented database query ele m e n t s such as target classes, project ions, conditional predicates, and p a t h expressions. S O P V a e w also provides a browsing method which consis ts of components such as visual izat ion s tructure, synchronized browsi...

Introduction: Breast neoplasia is the most common cancer among women in both developed and developing countries. Over 1.15 million women in the world detecting with breast neoplasia each year and the mortality rate is 502,000 cases from this cancer. The purpose of this study was to describe how Iranian women perform breast self-examination. Materials and methods: In this cross-sectional study...