the history of plant’s used for mankind is as old as the start of humankind. initially, people used plants for their nutritional proposes but after the discovery of medicinal properties, this natural ?ora became a useful source of disease cure and health improvement across various human communities. berberis vulgaris is one of the medicinal plants used in iranian traditional medicine. berberis ...

this study attempted to explore if teaching english collocations through two different modes of awareness-raising and input flooding has any possible differential effect on immediate retention as well as retention in a delayed assessment. it also compared the possible differential effect of teaching english collocations implicitly and explicitly on actively using the items in writing. m...

In this study, 5608 records of Kordi sheep body weights collected during 21 years (1990 to 2010) in Sheep Breeding Station of Shirvan were used to estimate genetic, phenotypic and environmental trends. Best linear unbiased predictions (BLUP) of breeding values were obtained by derivative free restricted maximum likelihood (DFREML) using univariate animal model. Genetic, phenotypic and environme...

The aim of present study was to estimate genetic and phenotypic trends for body weight traits at some ages in Lori-Bakhtiari lambs. In this study a total of 7721 records on birth weight, 6462 records of one month weight, 7275 records of weaning weight 5745 records of 6 month weight, 3326 records of 9 month weight and 3088 records of 12 month weight of Lori-Bakhtiari sheep was used to reveal the...

drought is transient phenomenon , slow , repetitive and integral part of the climate of each region. drought begins with a substantial reduction in precipitation over the long-term average rainfall and over time, reduced soil moisture and surface and ground water resources will continue to decrease. this phenomenon is the most important in bakhtegan basin because of its importance in strategic ...

abstract this study aimed at analyzing a corpus of emails gathered from iranian students studying in england. the corpus contained 996 emails that were investigated by employing the framework of chen (2006) to find common patterns in the discourse of these emails. another aim of the study was to find how two request acts (want statements and query preparatory) were used in the emails. the...

there are two major theories of measurement in psychometrics: classical test theory (ctt) and item-response theory (irt). despite its widespread and long use, ctt has a number of shortcomings, which make it problematic to be used for practical and theoretical purposes. irt tries to solve these shortcomings, and provide better and more dependable answers. one of the applications of irt is the as...