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...

the present study was an attempt to conduct a contrastive analysis between general english (ge) and english for specific purposes (esp) texts in terms of cohesion and cohesive devices. to this end, thirty texts from different esp and ge textbooks were randomly selected. then they were analyzed manually to find the frequency of cohesive devices. cohesive devices include reference, substitution, ...

Eight Strawberry cultivars (Paros, Queen Elisa, Pajaro, Camarosa, Gaviota, Selva, Mrak and Kurdistan as local cultivar) were evaluated to select the best cultivar based on quantitative yield production in Kurdistan province condition. An experiment was performed in a randomized complete block design with three replications during 2008- 2010 in Grizeh research station (Sanandaj). Eleven morpholo...

Fourteen sesame lines that have preferred in primary evaluation, with local mass of Birjand (as test) and Ooltan cultivar (as overall test) were compared for two years in completely block design with 4 replication. Traits measured in this study were germination percent, number of flower per axis, number of sub branch, capsule length, plant height, number of capsules per plant, height of first c...

the treatment of in completely formed pulpless teeth has presented considrable problems. these teeth have wide open apexes and the walls of the root canal diverge toward the apical tissues. mechanical preparation cannot be done in the normal manner beacause of the large initial size and the taper of apical part of the canal , a mechanical stop cannot be produced at the apex of the canal and , t...

magnetic resonance imaging (mri) is a notable medical imaging technique that makes of phenomenon of nuclear magnetic resonance. because of the resolution and the technology being harmless, mri has considered as the most desirable imaging technique in clinical applications. the visual quality of mri plays an important role in accuracy of medical delineations that can be seriously degraded by exi...