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The Spoken Karaim CD: Sound, Text, Lexicon and “Active Morphology” for Language Learning Multimedia

This paper discusses the project “Spoken Karaim: the CD”, describing the origin and evolution of the project, and how multimedia materials can support language learning, particularly in the case of endangered languages. The Spoken Karaim CD is one component of a larger enterprise that aims to document and support the Karaim language (see Csat` , this volume). The CD itself aims to support the K...

Spectroscopic Techniques: An Interactive Course

This book and CD-ROM were carefully produced. Nevertheless, editors, authors and publisher do not warrant the information contained therein to be free of errors. Readers are advised to keep in mind that statements, data, illustrations, procedural details or other items may inadvertently be inaccurate. A CD-ROM containing a demo version of the program OPUS (All rights reserved (including those o...

Methodology for Validation of Issuance of Mystical and Ethical Narrations (A Case Study and Discourse Analysis on the Methodology of the Book Sirr ul-asra’)

The Book “the Secret of Prophet Mohammad’s Midnight Journey to the Seven Heavens in Explanation of Al-Mi’raj Hadith” is written by Ayatollah Sa’adatparvar. Analyzing the discourse of a part of its introduction, his recognition method about this hadith has been investigated in this paper. The paper aims at investigating the particular discourse pattern of the author in analyzing the document of ...

Randomized Efficacy Trial of Early Preconception Counseling for Diabetic Teens (READY-Girls)

OBJECTIVE To develop and assess the feasibility of an early preconception counseling program for adolescents called READY-Girls (Reproductive-health Education and Awareness of Diabetes in Youth for Girls). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 53 adolescent females with type 1 diabetes between 16 and 19.9 years of age were randomized into groups receiving a CD-ROM, a book, or standard care (...

From Paper and Ink to CD-ROM: Digitizing the World Book Image

Critical Study of wonder book writing tradition in the Islamic World; A case study on Zakaria Qazvini's ʿAjāʾib al-Makhlūqāt

Wonder book writing has been of customary traditions in Islamic historiography. Wonder book writing first emerged as one type of Islamic geography and cosmology and in fact, it is the common product of natural history and geography. ʿAjāʾib Namah could be considered as unique forms of encyclopedias that are remarkable in terms of literary, cosmology, geography and natural history. In ʿAjāʾib Na...