BACKGROUND This study aimed at investigating the prevalence and risk factors of bovine thelaziosis, performed in the southeast of Iran, an endemic area for Iranian Sistani cattle. METHODS Between September 2012 to October 2014, 1924 cattle, Sistani breed (n= 1235) and Brahman breed (n=689) of all sex and age groups collected from Sistan and Baluchestan Province were examined using visual obse...

BACKGROUND Parasitological investigations on paramphistomosis were carried out over a 12-month period in the southeast of Iran to determine the prevalence and intensity of this disease. METHODS A total of 1000 cattle, Sistani breed (n= 450) and Brahman breed (n= 550) of all sex and age groups were inspected at random for the presence of paramphistomidae flukes in Zabol slaughterhouse from Dec...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to investigate how linguistic knowledge interacts with indexical knowledge in older children's perception under demanding listening conditions created by extensive talker variability. METHOD Twenty-five 9- to 12-year-old children, 12 from North Carolina (NC) and 13 from Wisconsin (WI), identified 12 vowels in isolated /hVd/ words produced by 120 talkers rep...

This report describes a pilot study investigating whether adult listeners are able to identify the dialect of child speakers from the recordings of isolated words. The recorded children are either speaking a Stockholm dialect or a Scanian dialect. Despite low agreement between the nine adult listeners, the results show that adult listeners can indeed identify dialect even in isolated short word...

In this paper, we address the problem of the morphological analysis of an Arabic dialect. We propose a method to adapt an Arabic morphological analyzer for the Tunisian dialect (TD). In order to do that, we create a lexicon for the TD. The creation of the lexicon is done in two steps. The first step consists in adapting a Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) lexicon. We adapted a list of MSA derivation...

The paper presents duration data based on V:C and VC: sequences in isolated words in ten dialects spoken in the north of Sweden (Norrbotten and Västerbotten) and Finland (Österbotten). Data are given as ratios of phonologically short to long vowels and consonants (V/V: and C/C:), and vowels to following consonants (V/C: and V:/C). Compared to Central Standard Swedish all the dialects employ gre...

BACKGROUND Under nutrition is a health problem in developing countries and the main aim of this study was determine of the nutritional status and some sociodemographic factors among rural under-5-year children in the North of Iran in 2013. METHODS This was a descriptive, cross-sectional study, which carried out on 2530 children (637 = Fars-native, 1002 = Turkman and 891 = Sistani) from 21 vil...

Research shows that cross-dialect lexical recognition can be asymmetrical, favouring non-dominant dialect speakers and prejudicing dominant-dialect speakers [10]. We ask if non-dominant dialect speakers exhibit similar perceptual effects when exposed to modified L2 input that aligns with their particular L1 dialect. The dialect feature examined is Spanish coda [-s]-aspiration. Participants were...

In scattered Swedish dialects, the vowels /i/ and /y/ are pronounced with a markedly low F2. This results in a ‘damped’ vowel quality that appears to be rather unusual in a typological perspective. To date, however, no experimental studies of this vowel type have been carried out using Swedish material. In this paper, formant frequencies are presented for one dialect suggesting that the /i/ vs....