One of the fundamental problems in neuroscience today is to understand how the activation of large populations of neurons give rise to the higher order functions of the brain including learning, memory, cognition, perception, action and ultimately conscious awareness. Electrophysiological recordings in behaving animals over the past forty years have revealed considerable information about what ...

background: despite more than a decade experience of annual student congresses in iran, major scientific writing weakness still exists in students’ abstracts submitted to the annual research congress of iran’s medical sciences students (arcimss). assessment of these abstracts can provide information on common scientific writing errors and subsequent development of abstract quality for the futur...

Objective(s): The aims of this study were to: 1) discover location (by city) of contributors to poster and oral presentations at recent ANZSNM conferences; 2) determine the nuclear medicine themes most commonly explored; 3) establish institutions producing the highest number of oral and poster abstracts and 4) determine publication rates of conference abstracts to full...

Background: Reporting quality of research on medical education has come under scrutiny in recent years in wake of empirical evidence. Poor reporting quality of published abstracts may distract readers from careful reading of research evidence or in a worst case mislead scientists. Main objective of this study was to evaluate the extent and quality of the submitted abstracts to the 3rd and 4th N...

This paper reports results from a corpus-based study that explored the frequency of words in the abstracts of applied linguistics journal articles. The abstracts of major articles in leading applied linguists journals, published since 2005 up to November 2001 were analyzed using software modules from the Compleat Lexical Tutor. The output includes a list of the most frequent content words, list...

please see the full text contains the pesian abstracts for this volume.

In the reviewed literature, many studies have compared research articles written by L1 and L2 speakers of English. this regard, comparing English from two different linguistic backgrounds distinguishes study similar studies. While writing article abstract, writers need to calculate what weight give their arguments while showing credibility authority at same time. Given these reasons, use hedges...

background: rheumatoid arthritis (ra) is a chronic inflammatory disease with many genetic factors predisposing to disease susceptibility. the aim of the present study was to investigate the impact of cd226 rs727088 and rs763361 polymorphisms and susceptibility to ra in a sample of the iranian population. methods: this case-control study was carried out on 100 patients with ra and 104 healthy su...