introduction        the inscription of rabatak was found in 1993 near an ancient hill in the north part of baghlan in afghanistan. the village of rabatak is situated at the kilometer forty in the north-western part of the ancient province of sorkh-kotal near the border between baghlan and samangan provinces. the rabatak inscription includes 23 lines in bactrian language and a greco-bactrian scr...

Introduction        The inscription of Rabatak was found in 1993 near an ancient hill in the north part of Baghlan in Afghanistan. The village of Rabatak is situated at the kilometer forty in the north-western part of the ancient province of Sorkh-Kotal near the border between Baghlan and Samangan provinces. The Rabatak inscription includes 23 lines in Bactrian language and a Greco-Bactrian scr...

The archaeological site of Ancient Termez is located in southern Uzbekistan. Despite the arid environment, city benefited from its strategic position near two rivers, Amu Darya and Surkhan Darya. Its significance was mainly related to expansion trade routes connecting Eurasia. comprises several enclosures that attest long-term human-environment interactions. In order identify adaptive dynamics ...

the current study is an attempt to investigate the impact of explicit instruction of metadiscourse markers on advanced, intermediate, and elementary efl learners’ writing performance. the participants of the study were 94 undergraduate students majoring in english literature at the university of isfahan. to elicit the relevant data, participants were given a pretest of writing ability to check ...

introduction one very important aspect of any textbook is its content in terms of the motivation it creates in the readers. this is specifically true in efl textbooks where the learners need more than just content since content-wise, such books are not very much different from the learners’ world knowledge level. that is why material developers working in this area are usually consciously choos...

Ovarian follicle response and corpus luteum formation following induction of ovulation using gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) analogues and luteinizing hormone (LH) in Bactrian camel were characterized. Bactrian camels with a mature follicle (13-19.6 mm) received: 1) natural porcine LH (25 mg, IV, n = 4), 2) Buserelin (20 μg, IV, n = 4) and 3) Alarelin (25 μg, IM, n = 4). Daily ultrasonogr...

To the Editor: Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) acquired from animals causes severe pneumonia in humans, with some chains of human-to-human transmission, leading to large outbreaks. MERS-CoV is a cause of concern for global public health. The only natural host of MERS-CoV identified so far is the dromedary camel (Camel dromedarius) (1,2), and transmission from camels to h...

a new 2-[(4-substituted-phenyl-3-chloroazetidin-2-one)-5-(2'-methylamino 4-phenyl-1', 3'-thiazolyl-]-1, 3, 4-thiadiazoles, 5(a-n) were synthesized from 2-substituted-benzylideneamino-5-[2'-methylamino-4'-phenyl-1',3'-thiazolyl]-1,3, 4-thiadiazole, 4(a-n) using 2-amino-4phenyl-1, 3-thiazole as a starting material. the synthesised compounds have been screened in vitro for their antimicrobial acti...