two oriental and western symbols are recorded in the memory of the world. kamal al-din behzad (1460-1535.a.d./ 865-942 a.h.) is the painter of iran's golden era and leonardo da vinci (1452-1519.a.d./ 857-925 a.h.) is the verstile artist of italian renaissance. the life stories of these two artists are more or les similar. during childhood, both experienced a hard time and during youth and adult...

Vowel reduction and deletion are prominent correlates of stress in German and some preliminary investigations have suggested that this constitutes an area of difficulty for nonnative speakers. This paper explores the production of vowels in unstressed syllables by learners of German, focusing especially on the acoustic properties duration and formant structure. It is shown that the realization ...

objective: the aim was to evaluate gender differences in depression scores of iranian and german medical students. methods: two hundred iranian medical students (100 men and 100 women) and 200 german medical students (100 men and 100 women) were selected randomly and completed the english form of the self-rating beck depression inventory (bdi). results: analysis gave a mean rating of 10.7 ± 6.6...

Case description- A three-month-old male German Shepherd dog, with signs of instability to stand, ataxia and radiographic symptoms of chondrodysplasia is presented. The symptoms were developed since birth.Clinical Findings- On physical examination, the affected pup did not show any swelling, pain or other abnormality in the long bones by palpation, but he had ataxia in walking. Ocular examinati...

demographic changes in germany show the fastest progress of all european countries and are not only influencing socioeconomic issues but also the management of patients with their individual risc profile. especially severely injured elderly constitute a group of patients who need specific attention due to their individual age related pathophysiological processes. 21% of the german population we...

This report describes the work done by the QA group of the Language Technology Lab at DFKI for the 2005 edition of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). We describe the extensions made to our 2004 QA@CLEF German/English QA–system, especially the question–type driven selection of answer strategies. Furthermore, details concerning the processing of definition and temporal questions are desc...

Objective- This study refers to the role of ultrasonography in the diagnosis of mammary gland tumor in bitches as a complementary diagnostic method and its ultimate goal is to evaluate the results of mammography with the positive results of ultrasonography. Design- Prospective study. Animals- 12 German Shepherd bitches with swollen mass in the mammary gland region (group I) and 12 h...