In this paper we describe the results of a preliminary investigation of interand intra-speaker variability in the vowel cepstra extracted from a forensically realistic database of non-contemporaneous telephone recordings of 297 adult, male speakers of Japanese. The methodology adopted to conduct this investigation is based on one-way ANOVA analysis, with the novelty of replacing the standard Eu...

We praise the article by Mokhtari-Zaer et al. (2015) published in the Avicenna Journal of Phytomedicine on the effects of saffron on smooth muscle activity (Mokhtari-Zaer et al., 2015). It was a well-designed and interesting study on the therapeutic properties of Crocus sativus which is a precious plant cultivated in our country. We do believe that along with all other medicinal effects, saffro...

ABSTRACTThis research is motivated by the use of reading strategies English students based on gender in classroom. The study used a survey design involving 38 education program consisting 15 male and 23 female students. Data were collected using Survey Reading Strategies (SORS) questionnaire developed Mokhtari Sheory (2002). analyzed statistical test independent sample t-test was conducted to d...

Nowadays unmanned rotorcraft are designed to operate with greater agility, rapid maneuvering, and are capable of work in degraded environments such as wind gusts etc. The control of this rotorcraft is a subject of research especially in applications such as rescue, surveillance, inspection, mapping etc. For these applications, the ability of the rotorcraft to maneuver sharply and hover precisel...

The purpose of this article was to examine the metacognitive awareness reading methods used by field-dependent (FD) and field-independent (FI) Turkish EFL university students learning English as a foreign language. 270 from Istanbul’s (Cerrahpasa) University were picked for purpose. To begin, Group Embedded Figure Test assign individuals one two groups, FD or FI. Following that, we assessed par...

In this study, the reading strategies used by students of high and intermediate proficiency levels were qualitatively examined. Reading are important factors that affect someone's proficiency. development education, continuously carried out to facilitate learning process sharpen students' skills. The purpose study is discover English Department with in academic texts. This uses theory Grabe (20...

Reading strategies are crucial in education. This research focused on Timorese language students’ levels of reading strategies. It attempted to answer two questions; (1) What the metacognitive awareness strategies? and (2) How do students apply their experiences? A mixed-method design was adopted. Mokhtari & Sheorey’s (2002) Survey Strategies (SoRS) used collect quantitative data. The findi...

the gastrointestinal stromal tumor (gist) is a rare mesenchymal tumor of gastrointestinal (gi) tract. this tumor has tendency to liver metastasis and peritoneal recurrence, however; the primarily lymph node involvement or metastasis is rare. here we reported a 17-years-old girl with multifocal gastric gist and multiple lymph node involvement at presentation and recurrence in celiac lymph nodes....

Title of Document: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MENTAL HEALTH, PHYSICAL HEALTH, PHYSICAL APPEARANCE AND MARITAL DISSATISFACTION Elizabeth Davenport Pollock, M.S., 2006 Directed By: Associate Professor Manouchehr Mokhtari, Department of Family Studies This study examines the relationship between mental health, physical health and physical appearance and marital dissatisfaction for women interviewed ...

The philosophy literature has been struggling with the problem of defining causality. There has been extensive discussion about it. Hume taught that talk of causation was metaphysics and should be consigned to the flames (D. Hume, 1748). We present a comparison between two approaches that model this notion: The first one is the normative approach which is based on an interventionist conception ...