Over the past twenty-five years, researchers have expressed considerable interest in titles of academic publications. Unfortunately, conference paper titles (CPTs) have only recently begun to receive attention. The aim of this study, therefore, is to investigate the text length, syntactic structure, and lexicon of CPTs in Applied Linguistics. A data set of 698 titles was selected from the 2008 ...

Reduced semen quality is commonly claimed to be one of the main signs of male infertility and thus, analysis of semen is recommended as the cornerstone of a male fertility investigation. However, to control possible sources of physiological and methodological variation, and to generate reliable information on semen quality that can be accurately compared across different laboratories, semen ana...

Distribution middleware is often integrated as a COTS, providing distribution facilities for critical, embedded or large-scale applications. So far, typical middleware does not come with a complete analysis of their behavioral properties. In this paper, we present our work on middleware modeling and the verification of its behavioral properties; the study is applied to our middleware architectu...

Ten different behavioral tests were performed on a population of young (n = 20) and aged (n = 20) Fischer 344 rats. The relationship structure among these tests was studied by principal component analysis applied both to the entire data set and separately to the two age groups. This analysis proved very useful in highlighting a global index of the rat "behavioral" age based on the entire test s...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to apply the conceptual framework of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to explain fish consumption in a sample of people who lived in Bandar Abbass, Iran. We investigated the role of three traditional constructs of TPB that included attitude, social norms, and perceived behavioral control in an effort to characterize the intention to consume fish as well as the be...

Understanding and managing knowledge processes have been recognized as critical issues in regard to knowledge management. However, no practical methodology for understanding and managing the knowledge process has been devised because of the tacit nature of the process. This research work proposes a new methodology called “knowledge-process dynamics (KPD)” analysis featuring objective behavioral...

objective: this project aimed to study early maladaptive schemas in adults with parents afflicted with schizophrenia. methods: in a causal-comparative study, a sample of 39 adults with one schizophrenic parent as the experiment group and 40 students without schizophrenic parents as the control group were selected. both groups completed early maladaptive schema questionnaire. descriptive statist...