International media was quick to dub the Iranian Green Movement a “Twitter revolution” when it erupted in summer of 2009. State violence against protestors captured real time and broadcast worldwide on social media, providing an early example regime's helplessness at locking down narrative face ubiquitous smart phones. Over decade later, nearly all foreign remain officially blocked Iran, yet Ir...

In this paper, a method for recognizing online Farsi characters that are written separately has been introduced. Regarding to the shape and the structure of the main body, Farsi letters have been divided into 18 groups. First, hidden Markov model (HMM) technique has been exploited to recognize the main body. In the next step, the final recognition in each group is performed according to delayed...

Knowing varieties of writing a letter in a word or a subword in different handwriting styles is very beneficial in recognition specifically for online recognition. In this paper, TMU-OFS dataset consisting of 1000 frequent Farsi subwords is employed to study Farsi handwriting styles. The subwords are grouped based on their delayed strokes and their main bodies, separately. The handwriting style...

In this paper, the problems of Farsi word processing software packages that are based on Word for Windows are enumerated. Being a non-roman script written from right to left and taken as Arabic, are two factors affecting the malfunctioning of Word for Windows. The problems such as: different keyboard layouts in different versions of Word; many problems encountered in dealing with digits; the pr...

BACKGROUND Procrastination is a common behavior which affects different aspects of life. The procrastination assessment scale-student (PASS) evaluates academic procrastination apropos its frequency and reasons. OBJECTIVES The aims of the present study were to translate, culturally adapt, and validate the Farsi version of the PASS in a sample of Iranian medical students. PATIENTS AND METHODS...

The subject intended to study the general methods of natural word-forming in Azeri Turkish language. This study aimed to reach this purpose by analyzing the construction of compound Azeri Turkish words. Same’ei (2016) did a comprehensive study on word-forming process in Farsi, which was the inspiration source of this study for Azeri Turkish language word-forming. Numerous scholars had done vari...

Code-switching (CS), an alternation between two or more languages or language varieties, has long been researched in language education. A great number of studies by applied linguists have explored the reasons for, and the potential usages of code-switching in foreign language education over the past years. This study explores the perceptions of English language learners across various proficie...