The purpose of this study was to explore the roles of bilingualism and similarity/dissimilarity between first language (L1) and second language (L2) on word reading and phonological awareness of bilingual students. Totally 1614 monolingual and bilingual pupils from Tehran [Persian monolingual (Pm) area], Sanandaj [Kurdish-Persian bilingual (KPb) area] and Tabriz [Turkish-Persian bilingual (TPb)...

We study strategic communication when the sender's multi-dimensional messages are given an interpretation by sender himself or a proxy. Interpreting involves provision of some data about their statistical state-dependence. Interpretation can be selective: different kinds interpret sets message components. The receiver uses this to decipher messages, yet he does not draw any inferences from kind...

The Gulf cooperation council (GCC) region is considered as "Emerging market" for pharmaceutical export and bilateral trade. The understanding of the regulatory requirements of this region can be beneficial for pharmaceutical export. Some incidents of the year 2008-09, like recession or economic slowdown in highly well-off and regulated market of the EU and US, raised the demand for alternate de...

This paper describes the usage of Natural Language Processing tools, mostly probabilistic topic modeling, to study semantics (word correlations) in a collection of Persian poems consisting of roughly 18k poems from 30 different poets. For this study, we put a lot of effort in the preprocessing and the development of a large scope lexicon supporting both modern and ancient Persian. In the analys...

BACKGROUND Reliability and validity are the key concepts in measurement processes. Young internet addiction test (YIAT) is regarded as a valid and reliable questionnaire in English speaking countries for diagnosis of Internet-related behavior disorders. OBJECTIVES This study aimed at validating the Persian version of YIAT in the Iranian society. PATIENTS AND METHODS A pilot and a cross-sect...

BACKGROUND Cerebrovascular disease leading to stroke is the most common cause of aphasia. Speakers with agrammatic non-fluent aphasia have difficulties in production of movement-derived sentences such as passive sentences, topicalized constituents, and Wh-questions. To assess the production of complex sentences, some passive, topicalized and focused sentences were designed for patients with non...

BACKGROUND The Arthritis Impact Measurement Scales 2 (AIMS2) has not been translated and validated for Persian-speaking patients with osteoarthritis of the knee. This was to provide a validated instrument to measure functional disability and health-related quality of life in patients with osteoarthritis of the knee in Iran. The aim of this study was to culturally adapt and validate the AIMS2 fo...