the present study is an attempt to investigate the use of vague expressions by intermediate efl learners. more specifically, the current study focuses on the structures and functions of one of the most common categories of vague language, i.e. general extenders. the data include a 22-hour corpus of english-as-a-foreign-language conversations. a comparison is also made between this corpus and a ...

Despite the abundance of research investigating general and academic vocabularies and developing dozens of word lists, few studies have compared academic vocabulary with general service word lists such as conversation vocabulary. Many EAP researchers assume that university students need to know all the words in West’s (1953) General Service List (GSL) as a prerequisite to academic words (e.g., ...

Testicles were isolated from dromedary camels in a local slaughterhouse at breeding and non-breeding seasons. Sperms were recovered from different parts of the epididymis (caput, corpus and cauda) and stained separately on slide glasses by eosin nigrosin staining method and dried by a hair dryer and carried to the laboratory. In the lab, slides were observed for evaluation of the proportion of ...

Background: Many hormones are involved in the regulation of reproduction. Leptin hormone which is mainly secreted by adipose tissue plays an important role in energy homeostasis and reproduction. It seems that leptin is an important linkage between body metabolism and reproductive system. Moreover, it has been shown that leptin and leptin receptor express in reproductive organs of some species....

ignoring two main characteristics of the concentration-response data, correlation between observations and presence of outliers, may lead to misleading results. therefore the special method should be considered. in this paper in to examine the effect of phenylephrine in rat corpus cavernosum, outlier robust nonlinear mixed estimation is used. in this study, eight different doses of phenylephrin...

introduction idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura is a platelet autoimmune hemostatic disorder. in this study, an itp case with abdominal signs and hemorrhagic corpus luteum is presented. case presentation the patient is a 28-year-old nonpregnant woman admitted to ed for constant acute abdominal pain, accompanied by nausea and vomiting. itp was the prominent disease in her medical history which ...