the core concept of plagiarism is defined as the use of other people's ideas or words without proper acknowledgement. herein, we used a questionnaire to assess the knowledge of students of tehran university of medical sciences (tums) regarding plagiarism and copyright infringement. the questionnaire comprised 8 questions. the first six questions of the questionnaire were translations of exercis...

introduction. what is the conception of talented students about university and academic and social life? does this conception change before and after entering the university? how these changes occur and in which direction? are these changes important? do the talented students have any solution for academic life problems? method. in a qualitative study 20 medical talented students were selected....

Abstract Academic lectures are potential sources of vocabulary learning for second language learners studying at universities where English is the medium instruction, as well those in Purposes (EAP) programs. Topic-related likely to occur frequently academic texts, and speech consists a reasonable proportion occurring sequences words. Yet no intervention studies have explored single words collo...

The nature of the contents of academic Web sites is of direct relevance to the new field of scientific Web intelligence, and for search engine and topic-specific crawler designers. We analyze word frequencies in national academic Webs using the Web sites of three English-speaking nations: Australia, New Zealand and the U.K. Strong regularities were found in page size and word frequency distribu...

How many words-and which ones-are sufficient to define all other words? When dictionaries are analyzed as directed graphs with links from defining words to defined words, they reveal a latent structure. Recursively removing all words that are reachable by definition but that do not define any further words reduces the dictionary to a Kernel of about 10% of its size. This is still not the smalle...