The aim of the current study was to investigate whether L2 dialogue shadowing practice would have an effect on Iranian intermediate EFL learners’ conversation ability. For this purpose, 30 Iranian intermediate EFL learners at Padideh language center participated in the experiment of the study. The participants were divided into two groups of 15 who were assigned to the experimental and co...

The reciprocity and reputation in social networks are considered as important factors to develop mutual trust in interfirm cooperation. Because of new insights gleaned from. the embeddedness approach, many researchers discuss this by giving considerable attention to the special quality of ties and the structural properties of social networks that facilitate the building of interorganizational t...

We present an implementation of the multilevel text processing model of discussions in USENET groups proposed earlier (NLDB '02 Proceedings). In the statistical processing phase, a discussion thread is SGML tagged to include the relevant information about parent-child relationships among the postings as well as other meta data of postings and threads. This tagged output is then processed by a g...

aim: considering the fundamental role of parents' function and family dynamics including the importance role of family communication pattern on preventing early-onset substance use in children, the present study aimed to determine the correlation between family communication pattern and mothers' preventive behavioral intention regarding preventing early-onset substance use in children...

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>Advertising has a crucial impact on product's goodwill. To further improve goodwill and make more profit, member firms in the supply chain use various contracts to coordinate channel. Considering dynamic effect of advertising, this paper studies two-level consisting one manufacturer retailer. The two members focus maximizing their profits through advertising p...

This paper aimed at manifesting the role of significant attributes of conversation analysis in social interviews from a functional perspective. In this paper the concern would be on how these attributes of conversation analysis acted as important elements in analyzing the interviews. In particular, the author discussed some samples of B.B.C learning English interviews which considered some conv...

The standard RFM models used by direct marketers include behavioral variables, but ignore the role of marketing communications. In addition, RFM models allow customer responsiveness to vary across different customers, but not across different time periods. Hence, the authors first extend RFM models by incorporating the effects of marketing communications and temporal heterogeneity. Then, using ...