REGIONAL EXTINCTION RISK AND CONSERVATION PRIORITIES FOR PERSIAN GULF MARINE BONY FISHES Jack R. Buchanan Old Dominion University, 2016 Advisor: Dr. Kent Carpenter Around the world, protected areas are the primary conservation measure used to combat biodiversity loss; however, these are often established without comprehensive species-specific information, leading to placement in areas that ofte...

Signature verification and Identification has great importance for authentication purpose. Persian signatures are different from other signature types because people usually do not use text in it and they draw a shape as their signature, therefore, a different approach should be considered to process such signatures. In this paper, a method for off-line Persian signature identification and veri...

In this paper, an automatic method for Persian WordNet construction based on Prenceton WordNet 2.1 (PWN) is introduced. The proposed approach uses Persian and English corpora as well as a bilingual dictionary in order to make a mapping between PWN synsets and Persian words. Our method calculates a score for each candidate synset of a given Persian word and for each of its translation, it select...

Comprehension is closely related not only to the knowledge of words and syntax, but also the pragmatic concerns of the discourse. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the impact of the intonational clues selection of Iranian teenagers’ and young adults’ Persian listening comprehension ability on their English learning as a second language. According to Buck (2003), in listening c...

The exportation of modern novel from European languages to other literatures has long been the object of study and has been, most recently, evoked in discussions of World Literature. The introduction of modern novel into the Persian literary system through translation occurred about the turn of the twentieth century. The genre was unprecedented in Persian and the concept of adabiyat wa...

topicalization and focus movement have been discussed in literature with respect to a vriety of their properties. in persian, syntactic objects within tense phrase, including phrasal arguments, may freely be displaced to a higher position and the reordering of these elements is mainly considered to be the result of discourse functional elements such as topic and focus. the present study is an e...

In recent years, author profiling (AP) has become a very relevant task for natural language processing (NLP). The main goal of 43 Research in Computing Science 115 (2016) pp. 43–56; rec. 2016-04-22; acc. 2016-05-15 AP is automatically determine demographic aspects from an author, for example, genre and age. In this paper we present a method for author profiling; particularly, we are interested ...