the present study was conducted to investigate the effect of implicit focus on form through input flooding and the effect of noticing, explicit focus on form on linguistic accuracy. to fulfill the purpose of the study, 86 iranian pre-intermediate efl learners of one of the language institutes were chosen by means of administering ket as the homogeneity test. these learners were pretested throug...

In order to study chemical weed control in cycloxydim tolerant maize (CTM) using cycloxydim herbicide, an experiment was carried out in a randomized complete block design with three replications during 2014. Treatments included conventional corn herbicides application (Nicosulforun, Foramsulfuron, Eradican and 2, 4-D + MCPA) in their recommended doses and combined treatment of cycloxydim + (dic...

Reduction of herbicide consumption is one of the goals of modern agriculture. Intercropping is an option to reduce growth and reproductive potential of weeds while maintaining agricultural system productivity. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of bean and maize intercropping on weed control, economical yield of system and land use efficiency. Experiment was done at the Res...

data envelopment analysis (dea) is a powerful tool for measuring relative efficiency of organizational units referred to as decision making units (dmus). in most cases dmus have network structures with internal linking activities. traditional dea models, however, consider dmus as black boxes with no regard to their linking activities and therefore do not provide decision makers with the reasons...

we commence by using from a new norm on l1(g) the -algebra of all integrable functions on locally compact group g, to make the c-algebra c(g). consequently, we find its dual b(g), which is a banach algebra so-called fourier-stieltjes algebra, in the set of all continuous functions on g. we consider most of important basic theorems about this algebra. this consideration leads to a rather com...

within communicative, interactive, and learner-centered framework of language teaching and learning, students need to learn four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing for their educational success. but of all the language skills, reading enjoys a paramount significance in so many second or foreign language academic contexts. in spite of its importance, language learners still have...