article history: received date: 25 september, 2016 review date: 12 october 2016 accepted date:23 november 2016 printed on line: 5 january purpose the aim of the present study was to study the impact of meta cognitive skills training on the reduction of academic procrastination and anxiety exam in male students. material & method: statistical population in this study consisted of all high school...

Abstract Based on an exponentially increasing number of academic articles, discovering and citing comprehensive appropriate resources have become non-trivial tasks. Conventional citation recommendation methods suffer from severe information losses. For example, they do not consider the section header paper that author is writing for which need to find a citation, relatedness between words in lo...

Spelling is a crucial skill for academic success however many pupils with learning disabilities lag behind in tasks because of poor spelling skills and its accompanying negative effects. Past studies on focused more reading than skills. Thus, the objective study was to examine core effects visual imagery cloze instructional strategies disabilities’ performance spelling. The pretest-posttest con...

OBJECTIVE To describe the rationale, origins, and goals of a newly created academic division of general psychiatry within a university setting. METHOD Literature review, observation, and description. RESULTS Within 2 years of its inception, the General Psychiatry Division of the University of Toronto has begun to realize some of its goals and further elucidate specific objectives. CONCLUS...

this study was motivated by three factors, which also contribute to its significance for today’s academic writing. first, research articles are the significant means of communication between the writers all over the world. second, persuasion and organization are crucial notions in academic writing where the authors have to consider the academic audiences and their needs.  third, some writers ar...

Traditional clustering algorithms are usually based on the bag-of-words (BOW) approach. A notorious disadvantage of the BOW model is that it ignores the semantic relationship among words. As a result, if two documents use different collections of core words to represent the same topic, they may be assigned to different clusters, even though the core words they use are probably synonyms or seman...

introduction: websites of academic journals have an important role in communicating and providing services to researchers. the present study aimed to determine the number of incoming links of iranian journal of medical sciences websites. besides, it aimed to determine the rate of visibility of core websites based on these findings. methods: this descriptive study was performed using webometrics...

Little is known about language minority community college students’ depth of L2 academic vocabulary knowledge, including how it relates to their breadth of L2 academic vocabulary knowledge and the relationship to their L1 skills. This exploratory study was carried out with a sample of 10 language minority students enrolled in either advanced ESL language classes or introductory content courses ...

In this paper, a series of window-based methods is proposed for information retrieval. Compared with traditional tf-idf model, our approaches are based on two new key notions. The first one is that the closer the query words in a document, the larger the similarity value between the query and the document. And the second one is that some query words, like named entities and baseNP called “Core ...

Introduction The topic of this paper is the integration of digital library services in an academic environment. A model of library-customer integration developed at Linköping University is presented. We also discuss how new academic library models based on the new digital information environment interfere with traditional principles of library work in a way that challenge core values in the rol...