New attempts at classifying figures of speech

quranic figures of speech in abul’atāhieh’s poems

abul’at?hieh, a distinguished poet and the innovator of the technique of ascetic poetry in abbasid era, was obviously and markedly under the influence of the holy qur’an and made an extensive use of quranic rhetorical devices and figures of speech in his poems. the influence of the qur’an on abul’at?hieh is in all lexical, collocational, musical, rhetorical and thematic areas. however, those fi...

A Rose By Any Other Name: Attempts at Classifying North American Protestant Worship

Two New Methods of Boundary Correction for Classifying Textural Images

With the growth of technology, supervising systems are increasingly replacing humans in military, transportation, medical, spatial, and other industries. Among these systems are machine vision systems which are based on image processing and analysis. One of the important tasks of image processing is classification of images into desirable categories for the identification of objects or their sp...

the effects of speech rate,prosodic features, and blurred speech on iranian efl learners listening comprehension

کلید واژه ها به زبان انگلیسی: effect of speech rate on listening comprehension, blurred speech,segmental and suprasegmental features,authentic speech,intelligibility, discrimination, omission, assimilation چکیده: سرعت مطالب شنیداری در کلام پیوسته بطور کلی همواره کابوسی بوده برای یادگیرنده های زبان دوم و بالاخص برای شنوندگان ایرانی. علی رغم عقل سلیم که کلام با سرعت کندتری فعالیتهای درک مطلب شن...

Reducing futile attempts at resuscitation.

A recent review in the BMJ has drawn attention to major concerns about ‘Do Not Attempt Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation’ (DNACPR) forms.1 One of these concerns is with the distressing number of deaths that are surrounded by futile attempts at cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Such attempts occur for a number of reasons. Some patients with terminal illnesses, or who are elderly and frail, do n...