This study examined the acquisition of prenominal and postnominal genitives by Iranian EFL learners. Two variables were considered: possessive categories and language proficiency. We considered the influence of possessive categories such as lexical modifier, semantic relationship, and weight and syntactic complexity on genitive alternations by Iranian EFL learners. Also, we examined whether the...

Polysulfide resins,with trade name of  G4 and G112, with short and long chain lengths respectively, were used as reactive modifiers to toughen epoxy resin. The effects of molecular weights of G4 and G112 on impact resistance, dielectric constant, thermal conductivity as well as decomposition  heat and adhesion properties of toughened epoxy were investigated. The impact strength and the diel...

In this work, we report, optical properties of Cd1-xSnxTe quantum dots (x= 0.05, 0.10 and 0.15) synthesized in water using thioglycolic acid (TGA) as a modifier agent. The optical characterization of the samples was performed through absorption (UV) and photoluminescence spectra (PL). A red shift absorption and fluorescent emission peaks was observed which can be related t...

Zinc oxide (ZnO) is a wide-gap semiconducting material which chemically stable at high temperatures and has been shown to be compatible with asphalt binders. Additionally, nanoparticles such as ZnO could help improve urban air quality. This encouraged the use of this binder mix modifier. A review on an modifier was conducted in study. Based we carried out, following were mainly synthesized desc...

One of the characteristics of patent sentences is long, complicated modifications. A modification is identified by the presence of a head word in the modifier. We extracted head words with a high occurrence frequency from about 1 million patent sentences. Based on the results, we constructed a modifier correcting system using these head words. About 60% of the errors could be modified with our ...

In this study, we sought to determine whether there is a significant discrepancy among a group of practitioners when rating pregnant patients using the ASA Physical Status Classification and whether this discrepancy could be resolved with the addition of a modifier for pregnancy. Our results indicate that significant discrepancy occurs and that it is reduced with the use of the modifier, especi...

Interpreting a novel modifier-noun phrase (e.g, licorice guitar) involves both the conceptual and lexical systems; one must access the concepts denoted by the words and select a relation (e.g., noun MADE OF modifier) to form a unified conceptual representation. We describe recent empirical work that demonstrates that the ease of interpreting a novel noun phrase is influenced by the availability...