This study examined the establishment of coherence relations by Persian EFL learners in their reading of stories. 201 undergraduate EFL learners read narrative passages and selected appropriate coherence elements of different types necessary for the proper construction of meaning. The results demonstrated a consistent pattern of a text-specific hierarchy for the comprehension of conjunctive rel...

The Pearson-Fisher chi-squared test can be used to evaluate the goodnessof-fit of categorized continuous data with known bin endpoints compared to a continuous distribution, in the presence of unknown (nuisance) distribution parameters. Rayner and McAlevey [11] and Rayner and Best [9],[10] demonstrate that in this case, component tests of the Pearson-Fisher chi-squared test statistic can be obt...

Coherence relations have proved a useful tool in recent computational models of discourse. However, there is much disagreement between theorists about which set of relations to use, and also between analysts working within a particular theory as to how to analyse individual texts. These difficulties arise from the fact that present conceptions of relations lack a solid empirical basis. This pap...

as the form and appearance of a literature work inevitably affect thestructure and shape ofthatwork, theyplay animportant role in its permanence.in this study, factors and elementsaffecting the cohesion, coherence, form and structure of allegories and debates in parvin'scollection were analyzed using a systematic method. the results of the study can becategorizedin four groups. first, in p...

The coherentist theory of justification provides a response to the sceptical challenge: even though the independent processes by which we gather information about the world may be of dubious quality, the internal coherence of the information provides the justification for our empirical beliefs. This central canon of the coherence theory of justification is tested within the framework of Bayesia...

Recordings of motor cortical activity typically show oscillations around 10 and 20 Hz; only those at 20 Hz are coherent with electromyograms (EMGs) of contralateral muscles. Experimental measurements of the phase difference between approximately 20-Hz oscillations in cortex and muscle are often difficult to reconcile with the known corticomuscular conduction delays. We investigated the generati...

objectives: within the context of health-related quality of life studies, it was necessary to translate and evaluate the psychometric properties of the sf-12 health survey version 2. the aim of this study was to investigate the factorial structure, convergent validity and reliability of this instrument in a healthy iranian sample, following translation and establishment of content and face vali...

Background. Coherence is considered one of the most important qualities written discourse. Despite its fundamental importance, it still a fuzzy and abstract concept in English Second Language (ESL) contexts. Consequently, many ESL learners struggle to produce coherent text. Morphological, phonological, orthographic awareness, vocabulary knowledge, grammatical competence have been identified as ...

the entanglement between a ?-type three-level atom and its spontaneous emission fields is investigated. the effect of spontaneously generated coherence (sgc) on entanglement between the atom and its spontaneous emission fields is then discussed. we find that in the presence of sgc the entanglement between the atom and its spontaneous emission fields is completely phase dependent, while in absen...

Let $f: Arightarrow B$ be a ring homomorphism and let $J$ be an ideal of $B$. In this paper, we investigate the transfer of the property of coherence to the amalgamation $Abowtie^{f}J$. We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for $Abowtie^{f}J$ to be a coherent ring.