the aim of this study is to investigate the role and structure of motivation in learning a foreign language in order to introduce the model ofinformation processing as a new approach and scale to evaluate themotivation of foreign languages.for this purpose,two hundred and fifty participant employees ofthe iranian oil terminals company enrolled in the english language training courses were selec...

the factor structure of the listening section of a persian language proficiency test (plpt), developed and used for academic purposes, was examined in this study. a structural equation modeling (sem) was employed using amos (v. 18) to analyze the responses of a number of persian language learners (n=120) who participated in the first piloting phase of the test in 2014. to examine whether the li...

This paper proposes a test-case design method for black-box testing. First, a language for test-case design based on “feature tree” is provided. Next, a formal semantics of the language is defined as for reliability of generated test-cases. Last, we propose and implement a SAT based algorithm for automated test-case generation, whose correctness is proved w.r.t. the above-mentioned semantics. O...

Ultrasonic testing is a versatile and important nondestructive testing method. In many industrial applications, ultrasonic testing is carried out at relatively high temperatures. Since the ultrasonic w...