This study attempts to investigate politeness strategies and politeness markers in email-request sent byIranian male and female EFL learners to professors. The comparison between strategies used by malesand females in email-request were also analyzed. 52 actual emails of M.A students of TEFL studying atAzad University consisted the data in this research. To analyze the corpus, politeness strate...

Background: Goldfishes are used as an ideal model for nutritional studies in larval and juvenile cyprinids. However, of the limited published data that is available on goldfish, protein requirements have varied from 29% to 53% goldfish larvae. So present study was undertaken determine growth performance C. auratus fed with different dietary lipid levels develop nutritionally balanced diets. Met...

The fast growth and development of wireless computer networks and multimedia applications make the Quality of Service (QoS) provided to their transmission an important issue. This paper aims to investigate the impact of varying the number of active stations on the network performance. This was carried out using different data rates. The investigations also considered both MAC protocol access me...

In 1996 a project was undertaken to determine the clinical impact of blood cultures taken in the emergency department. It found that 1.6% of all blood cultures taken resulted in changes in patient management. In response to these findings, guidelines were developed for more appropriate utilisation of blood cultures. It was predicted that the guidelines would result in a reduction in test orderi...