The objective of this study was to examine differences between fluent English-speaking ethnically diverse (ED) individuals (from Hispanic, Asian and Middle-Eastern descent) and monolingual English-speaking Anglo-Americans (MEAA) on commonly used tests of information processing and attention. A sample of 123 (84 ED and 39 MEAA) healthy individuals participated. The results revealed that the MEAA...

Evaluation offers many benefits for citizen science including the ability to inform design and improve project programming; aid in understanding impacts on volunteer outcomes; validate successes; advance best-practices field. However, evaluation subsequent use of its findings remains limited. Here, we applied an existing typology document among 15 leaders who were deeply involved a collaborativ...

cold stress during the beginning of the season usually causes damage to rice plants in the north of iran. in this study, the expression of four genes namely osp5cs2, osttp1, oscoin and oslti6a, was studied in 14-day-old seedlings of a cold tolerance pr genotype and a cold sensitive hashemi variety during cold stress (5°c for 24h) by means of differential display method. pcr products were quanti...

Information Structure, the packaging of information to satisfy the immediate communicative needs, exerts a powerful force on all structural levels of language. We show how this concept can be defined, we argue for focus, givenness, topic, frame setting and delimitation as important subconcepts, and we illustrate the wide variety in which these information structural functions are expressed in l...

in different codes, document is recognized as a valid evidence, but in article 1335 of the civil code it is used as an expression that denies its validity as an independent evidence and limits its documentary effect as introduction of knowledge of judge; so the expression of the legislator in this article about the document is inconsistent with other articles of that code as well as with articl...