purpose: the present study seeks to explore the effects of general language proficiency, text readability, and medical knowledge on comprehending medical texts. material & method: 63 medical students in the second year of their study were randomly selected from the english language classes. they answered 100 multiple-choice questions on grammar and vocabulary to establish the level of language ...

Medical Linguistics is relatively a quite new field to work with. Working on the language of medicine has stimulating challenges medical practitioners/historians and linguistics. Though lot efforts have been made by classical scholars do linguistic analysis ancient literature very minutely, but then from middle ages until recently was ignored scholars, consequently little done identify towards ...

In the research community Function Points is considered as a de facto standard. Even according to Gartner Group "function points will provide the primary means for measuring application size, reaching a penetration of approximately 50% of development organisations by the year 2000" (Hotle, 1996). We do not know what sources this conjecture is based upon. However, we observe that in many major c...

This  research  aimed  to  screen  'essay  writing'  difficulties  that  non-native  university students  at  postgraduate  levels  usually  experience  regarding  scholarly  publication  in mainstream, English journals. Two sets of variables including written literacy competencies in Persian and English languages were mapped over language uses (General vs. Academic). Initial screenings  from  ...

Abstract Electrochemical ozone production (EOP) is an attractive technology for disinfection and sterilization purposes. This work reports a study on the EOP performance of solid polymer electrolyte (SPE) electrolyzer, including optimization electrode configuration operation conditions. It proven that highly affected by configuration. Tests using BDDs with different B/C ratios demonstrate BDD-4...