Intensive forest management led to elevated losses of nitrogen from a recently harvested loblolly pine plantation in North Carolina. Measurements of nitrogen-15 retention in the field demonstrated that microbial uptake of nitrogen during the decomposition of residual organic material was the most important process retaining nitrogen. Management practices that remove this material cause increase...

Formulaic language and sequence as the core characteristic of real-life language and native-like fluency, has been a subject of inquiry in recent decades. The aim of the present study is to investigate the effects of two extensive reading text types, i.e., adaptive and authentic, on Iranian EFL learners’ development of lexical bundles. To this aim, 20 intermediate EFL learners were chosen to pa...

in order to achieve educational purposes and having better spiritual power in an education institute, the authorities must try to keep and support their human recourses. this study is conducted to determine the affective motivation factors on retension of faculty members at hormozgan university of medical sciences (hums). for this purpose, the view points of 71 faculty member’s (hums) through a...

abstract facial defects not only impact on the function and quality of life but also affect the psychological well-being and social behavior of patients. a nasal prosthesis can re-establish the esthetics and anatomical contour in patients with mid-facial defects, often more effectively than surgical reconstruction. for successful results, many factors such as retention, texture, color match and...

persian language has influenced arabic language in many different ways; especially in the lexical area of language. since many persian words have entered arabic language, this language has been affected by persian language and culture. many of these persian words can be found in an arabic lexicon called lesan-al-arab. the writers of this article have analyzed the arabic form of the word sepanjg...

this project investigates the relationship between lexical semantics and causative morphology in the acquisition of causative/inchoative-related verbs in english as a foreign language by iranian speakers. results of translation and picture judgment task show although l2 learners have largely acquired the correct lexico-syntactic classification of verbs in english, they were constrained by the m...

this study compares and contrasts lexical cohesion in english and persian abstracts of iranian medical students’ theses to appreciate textualization processes in the two languages. for this purpose, one hundred english and persian abstracts were selected randomly and analyzed based on seddigh and yarmohamadi’s (1996) lexical cohesion framework, a version of halliday and hasan’s (1976) and halli...

abstractthis study investigates ‘repetition’ in the english translation of the arabic novel, adrift on the nile (1993). it aims to explore the communicative functions of ‘repetition’ and to see if these functions have been maintained or lost in the process of translating the novel. in addition, it seeks to find the translation strategies used in rendering ‘repetition’. to achieve this aim, a de...