This study investigatesvariability in English yes/no questions as well as the commonalities among yes/no question variants produced by members of two different varieties of English: Canadian English native speakers and Iranian EFL learners.Further, it probes the role of gender in theEnglish yes/no question variants produced by Canadian English native speakers and those produced by Iranian EFL l...

in order to survey the evolutionary history and impact of historical events on the genetic structure of iranian people, the hv2 region of 141 mtdna sequences related to six iranian populations were analyzed. slight and non-significant fst distances among the central-western persian speaking populations of iran testify to the common origin of these populations from one proto-population. mismatch...

Today, medical tourism is one of the fastest growing sectors industry around world. Medical can contribute to sustainable development and economic dynamism countries. Therefore, in this study, we prioritize world’s leading countries for Iranians. First, five main criteria 20 sub-criteria were selected, which are reasons choosing a country as destination. In paper combined fuzzy SWARA-PROMETHEE ...

Cultural background can influence cognition, including executive functions (EFs), abilities that encompass skills responsible for self-regulation of thoughts and behavior. The seminal unity diversity model EFs proposes the existence, in adulthood, at least three correlated but separable EF latent (shared variance more than one task/indicator) domains: inhibition, updating shifting. However, evi...

the present study on politeness is an attempt to examine (dis)agreeing strategies utilized by efl learners while chatting on the internet. subjects of the study were forty male and thirty-three female iranian natives whose internet relay chat (irc) interactions, composed of 400 excerpts, were collected between december 2007 and september 2008. data analysis was based on the general taxonomy of ...

Metadiscourse is a widely used term in current discourse analysis and language education, referring to an interesting, and relatively new approach to conceptualizing interaction between text producers and their texts and between text producers and users. Despite the growing importance of the term, however, it is often understood in different ways and used to refer to different aspects of langua...