This paper examines the effect of gender and type of stem on Iranian test takers’ performance on the grammar section of a nation-wide language proficiency test. In so doing, the scores of 2931 examinees (1107 female and 1824 male) who sat Tarbiat Modares English proficiency test were obtained. The examinees’ scores on three types of MC grammar items with different kinds of stems (i.e., blank fi...

Piano tones have partials whose frequencies are sharp relative to harmonic values. A listening test was conducted to determine the effect of inharmonicity on pitch for piano tones in the lowest three octaves of a piano. Nine real tones from the lowest three octaves of a piano were analyzed to obtain frequencies, relative amplitudes, and decay rates of their partials. Synthetic inharmonic tones ...

in determination of particular types of coagulate positive staphylococci (staphylococcus aurous) causing different diseases, especially hospital sepsis and food poisonings; 186 strains of coagulase positive staphylococci from different provinces in iran were phage typed. because of various sources of the strains, the results had some differences, as 15.8 percent or 15 strains separated from chi...

Syntactic and semantic information are computed online in a manner such that electrophysiological methods can detect distinct processes within a few hundred milliseconds of a word. The amplitude of the N400 response has been shown to reflect semantic integration of a word in the context of a preceding word, sentence, and discourse. We show, in a combined behavioral and ERP study, that the N400 ...

Elite Indian athletes who were undergoing training at the NIS, Patiala for the preparation of IX Asian Games held in Delhi in 1982, suffered 317 injuries during the 14 months of training. Of the injuries 64 per cent were observed in males, while 36 per cent were observed in females. Most of the injuries seen were in the lower limbs (59.2 per cent) and when classified according to the tissues in...

vv HEN used for measurement of plasma volume, bovine plasma proteins (I) and dog hemoglobin (2) have the same initial volume distribution as the dye, T-1824, which in the bloodstream combines preferentially with albumin (3). In regard to simultaneous comparisons in dogs of plasma volume measured with T-1824 and human albumin labeled with the 1131 isotope, there are conflicting reports (cf. 4-7)...

the cause of elevated diastoic blood pressure remains elusive in the majority of instanses, however in about 3-25 per cent of all hypertensive patients an specific causative factor such as renal can be identified. based upon our recent study, we believe that the incidence of renal hypertensions is quite high in our community with the esternate ranging from 10 to 4u per cent of all secondary hyp...

Cortical processes underlying perception of musical consonance were investigated by long-latency auditory evoked potentials (EPs). Subjects listened to a random sequence of dyadic pure tones paired at various pitch intervals (1, 4, 6, 7, or 9 semitones). Amplitudes of P2 and N2 components of auditory EPs were significantly modulated by pitch interval of the dyads, being most negative for 1 semi...