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This article presents some tools of discourse analysis through twenty spoken medical texts, ten in English and ten in Persian. The main objective of this article is to explain and exemplify different concepts regarding the field of discourse analysis in order to study these spoken texts in two languages to find the points of difference between them. First twenty spoken medical texts were recorded and transcribed. About one hundred sentences in each language that contained these features were chosen Then they were compared from the perspectives of fourteen features, including turn-taking, different types of interruptions, back-channel support, filled pauses, spoken discourse markers, intonation, repetition and false starts. The transcriptions were analyzed for the points of difference in each language and it was found that English speakers use more turn taking, silent interruption, filled pauses and intonation markers in their speech. Persian speakers are more active in using spoken discourse markers, .repetition, back channel support and false start. Chi-square was used to see whether these differences are significant and meaningful or not. It was estimated through chi-square that there was a significant difference between the two groups in turn taking, silent interruption, back- channel support, filled pauses, Falling-rising intonation, Rising intonation, Level intonation, and repetition and false starts in the way that English speakers are more inclined in using these features than Persian ones.

Distribution theory is powerful tool for dealing with pseudo-functions including impulsive phenomena, absolutely divergent integrals and their Fourier transforms. A new theory of generalized functions which is an extension of classical theory of distributions has been introduced and various properties have been generalized. The purpose of this paper is two dimensional fractional cosine transform is extended in the distributional generalized sense. Operators on the testing function E and its dual space E^* are obtained.

Since in Iranian university context, reading comprehension is the most important skill to be acquired by the students, this study wanted to show whether implementing pre-, while-, and post-reading activities has a significant impact on Iranian EFL Learners’ reading proficiency or not. 28 sophomore students at Islamic Azad University in Lahijan (Iran) participated in this study and were divided into two groups: experimental and control group. The former received teaching reading activities such as deducting, inferring, note-taking, etc. as the treatment while the latter did not receive such a treatment. The treatment proved to be effective, that is, the experimental group surpassed the control group according to the post-test. Finally, it is hoped that material developers, teachers and testers will benefit from the findings of this study.

Dufour effect on unsteady MHD flow through porous medium past an impulsively started inclined oscillating plate with variable temperature and mass diffusion is studied here. The fluid considered is gray, absorbing-emitting radiation but a non-scattering medium. The Governing equations involved in the present analysis are solved by the Laplace-transform technique. The velocity profile is discussed with the help of graphs drawn for different parameters.

The motion of an infinitesimal body with variable mass is studied. The equations of motion of the restricted three body problem with infinitesimal body of variable mass are introduced. The Jeans' law of mass change is applied. To tackle the dynamical problem, the Hamiltonian of the problem is formed with the time as independent variable. The solution of the equations of motion is formulated based on Lie series developments. Numerical representation of coordinates and momenta are given.

The growing trend tendency of web-based business world, emphasized on existence of an important and complementary component such as electronic banking as an undeniable necessity .In recent decades with development of communication and information tools, the volume of e-commerce significantly increased Such that between 2002 and 2006 on average each year 50% has added to the volume of trade exchange through electronic contexts. And its amount from 2,293 billion dollars in 2002 has reached to over 12,837 billion dollars in 2006. Given the widespread impact of electronic commerce and global markets dominance, it is necessary that the tools and contexts of transfer and exchange of money to keep pace with appropriate and desirable rate to the growth of e-commerce development. Adequacy of international Capital banks introduces the major risks associated with electronic banking as follows: strategic risk, credit risk, operational risk, liquidity risk, market risk and credit risk (reputation and history).One of the main identified risks in this field is that, All financial institutions Given the characteristics of the environment in which they operate And their activity amount are faced with operational risk that should be controlled As much as possible and determine the needed capital to manage it. Our main goal in this study is to identify operational risk factors in the electronic banking of Keshawarzi Bank. We first seek to identify risk factors that lead to this, so by control and reduction of impact of these factors the severity of this risk type is reduced and to bring about better management

The research reported in this thesis was on “Effects of job satisfaction on employee’s performance”. The purpose of research was to study the various factors that have been significant in determining employee performance and their importance with respect to the employees of Pakistan. The secondary data was collected by Internet and also from the material printed by different Scholars from all over the world. The primary data was gathered by floating questionnaires in Hassan leather industry Sheikhupura, Pakistan. SPSS was applied to analyze the gathered information through running Correlation tests on the variables in the study. The reliability of the data was measured with the help of the Cronbach’s Alpha value which too was calculated using the SPSS software. The findings provided an insight and estimation towards the impact of financial and Non-Financial reward system on employee’s performance. All the variables have been found to be significant in determining employee’s performance. The paper elaborates the characteristics and implications regarding the variables in detail to give a picture and a base for further research.

The present research dealt with evaluating the Human Resources Information System (HRIS) efficiency employing effective factors on users’ satisfaction such as system quality, information quality, and system application. The research sample included all staff in the Bureau of Prisons in Markazi province, Iran. The sample data were analyzed based on four factors including age, gender, education level, and years of service. Hypotheses testing revealed that there is a significant correlation between all of the considered variables. Results indicated that the ease of use of information system, authorized access to information system, integrated reports provided by information system, timely response of information system to individuals’ needs, information system variability and flexibility under different settings and continuity and uniformity of information system programming, information accuracy, security, completeness, newness, coordination and simplicity as well as correct information volume and understandability of information, information use in job performance improvement, feasibility of objectives and information system excellence, task simplification, transparency, clarity and understandability of information system, easy use, and output and productivity excellence of information system have a relatively significant impact on users’ satisfaction improvement.

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have important roles in employment and GDP. One of the success pillars of SMEs is brand management improvement. This study evaluated the strategic performance of brand management in foods sector’s SMEs based on Keller’s Brand Report Card (BRC) in Iran. The research design of this paper is descriptive- survey type. The data gathered from 100 managers of 50 SMEs by using a 37-items questionnaire from 6 provinces. Results indicated that however the overall brand management performance has a good score but the performance in sub-categories are not equal. Freidman test indicated the priorities of brand performance in 10 sub-categories. Kruskal-wallis test showed that priorities of four sub-categories performance among different sectors of food industry.

In this work the speech disorder namely Apraxia of Speech is discussed. The basics of the disorder are described here. The speech parameters are identified which characterize the disorder and correction system is designed to improve the speech quality. The speech signal samples of people of age between five to eighty years are considered for the present study. These speech signals are digitized and enhanced and analyzed for the Speech Pause Index, Jitter, Shimmer, HNR, Pitch variations Tx graphs, Normalized Percentile fo characteristics and % Close Quotient EGG graphs using MATLAB, PRAAT, SFS and EXCEL platforms.