reading comprehension plays a central role in nonfiction general english university courses in different efl situations and one of the important factors affecting it is vocabulary size. accordingly, the present study aimed at investigating the effect of unknown vocabulary size on efl learners’ reading comprehension. to this end, 40 tefl freshmen were ed to participate in this study on the basis...

The project focuses on examining the advantages of random verification with real examples. Random verification has two necessary parts, hierarchical testbench and coverage metrics. The layered testbench allows a verifier to improve the coverage by only modifying the randomization constraints at the highest level of abstraction. Although it might take a verifier more time to build such hierarchi...

provides an overview of subject repositories (srs) throughout the world in response to the open access movement (oam). it mainly highlights the current trends of repository development in library and information science (lis) field. this paper covers all repositories in lis field as registered in opendoar (directory of open access repository) database. the main objective of the paper is to sele...

from the very beginning of the attempts made to organize electronic commerce in international field, the most important subject has been classification of electronic commerce under any legal systems of the organization, i.e. gatt, gats, trips or a combination of the provisions of the gatt and gats. the hybrid and trips systems did not have the required capacity for the subject matter both theor...

a field study was conducted in semnan to measure the vaccination coverage rate in children from birth to 24   months and correlate the outcome with personal family and social characteristics of the subjects in 1372 (1994).   a total of 210 children below the age of 24 months, living in semnan were selected randomly from thirty district   points of the town .   to gather the data a two section q...

asymmetric information in iran’s insurance market: case study for automobile insurance in iran insurance companythis research aims to test the presence of asymmetric information by using the dynamic information of automobile policyholders in the iran insurance company (iic). the conditional independence test is conducted by bivariate probit model, the dynamic properties which are presented for ...

In coverage-based testing, coverage conditions are generated from the program text. For example, a branch generates two conditions: that it be taken in the false direction and in the true direction. The proportion of coverage conditions a test suite exercises can be used as an estimate of its quality. Some coverage conditions are impossible to exerise, and some are more cost-effectively elimina...