Sabotage and Science: Navigating Between the Disciplines

Autoantibodies, lupus and the science of sabotage.

Anti-double-stranded DNA antibodies (anti-dsDNA) and antiphospholipid antibodies (APL) are important in the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and the antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) respectively. Not all anti-dsDNA or APL antibodies can cause clinical effects. Those that are particularly likely to cause tissue damage tend to be of IgG isotype and to possess particular binding p...

Navigating the vision science Internet

Vision scientists seek to understand visual perception and its underlying mechanisms. To do so, we primarily use computer and electronic technologies to construct images, display them to observers, and record measures of visual function. This capacity to reproduce images of desired properties as part of a controlled, reliable, reproducible, and innovative experiment requires overcoming many tec...

Navigating the Science of Emotion

the relationship between collocational competence and listening comprehension

پس از پیدایش روش تدریس ‏‍tpr توسط جیمز اشر که توجه و تآکید بسیاری بر مهارت شنیداری داشت زبانشناسان همواره در صدد یافتن راههایی برای بهبود این مهارت در زبان آموزان می باشند. از طرفی جی-آر-فرث که از پیشگامان زبانشناسی می باشد بر تآثیر لغات و بویژه گروه کلمات که اغلب در گفتار با هم می آیند (هم آیی کلمات)تأکید بسیار کرده است. به این دلیل و به منظوربررسی رابطه بین این دو عامل یعنی درک شنیداری و دانش...

the relationship between learners critical thinking ability and their performance in the reading sections of the tofel and ielts test

the study reflected in this thesis aims at finding out relationships between critical thinking (ct), and the reading sections of tofel and ielts tests. the study tries to find any relationships between the ct ability of students and their performance on reading tests of tofel and academic ielts. however, no research has ever been conducted to investigate the relationship between ct and the read...