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This paper is an attempt to investigate the type and amount of lexical/phrasal and external modifiers employed in the English e-requests of Iranian EFL postgraduate students (nonnative speakers of English) to their professors during their education at Islamic Azad University, Najaf Abad Branch, Isfahan, Iran. To that end, the study employed both quantitative and qualitative approaches to investigate 60 English e-mails composed by the participants. More specifically, Blum-Kulka, House, and Kasper's (1989), Blum-Kulka and Olshtain's (1984), and Edmondson's (1981) classification of requests was employed for coding the modification of the collected electronic requests. Findings from the study reveal that the Iranian students’ e-mails are not overly adorned with politeness modification. This paper argues that such e-mails fail to create e-polite messages to faculty and therefore capable of causing pragmatic failure.

The calcaneo navicular coalition is congenital fusion of the two bones of the tarsus, the calcaneus and the navicular bone. With the talocalcaneal coalition, it constitutes the most common form of tarsal coalitions. Often asymptomatic, the calcaneo navicular coalition, generally easy at radiological diagnosis when it comes to oblic foot exercise, requires in case of intense pain, a surgical operation. Several surgical methods are proposed by the authors, including the double arthrodesis and resection of the coalition with the interposition of the extensor brevis muscle or fat tissue. The interest of this study is to shed light on the interest of the pedal muscle interposition after resection of the tarsal coalition at the talocalcaneal articulation achieved before the end of the growth for the prevention of recurrence and total disappearance of symptoms in children. As sample, we propose the observation of a girl aged ten years old, with symptomatic form of calcaneo navicular coalition treated surgically by resection with pedal muscle interposition. Clinical results, valued at an average of twelve months after surgery, were satisfactory.

Modern landmines are mainly non- metallic or contain small amount of metal, that they cannot be detected using conventional detectors. Ground Penetration Radar (GPR) is capable of detecting shallowly buried non-metallic objects. GPR is the best alternative for detecting non-metallic landmines. But, GPR also performs inadequately due to the presence of clutter which dominates the data and obscures the main information. In this paper symmetrical ?ltering method is going to be applied on measured B-scan data to reduce unsymmetrical clutter. Results of the symmetry ?ltering and symmetry point location algorithm are presented.

Weather forecasting is a very fundamental application in meteorology and technologically challenging problem. The estimation of temperature values are needed for agricultural, technical and environmental applications. Meteorological dataset has historical data of all weather parameters and the temporal analysis of this dataset can help to mine meaningful knowledge. There are number of techniques available in data mining, but Association Rule Mining is one of the most popular technique to mine large amount of dataset for finding the hidden relationship between various dataset variables values and identifies correlations between them. The scope of this research is to analyze temporal rules generated to predict day to day temperature variation of a specific region Surat, India. To accomplish this, the framework is proposed for prediction of day temperature variation from seasons. From the experiments, achieved higher accuracy compare to other data mining technique and the rules which show how day variations are related. Also prepared the list of parameters which is less in number to help for the prediction instead of all parameters and thus it helps in the reduction of the dataset size.

This study was an attempt to examine the association among autonomy and motivation of EFL learners’ academic achievement. To obtain the objectives of the present study two different research instruments were administrated. The Autonomy questionnaire and Motivation questionnaire were employed. In order to collect the necessary data, the instruments were given to 120 male and female college students majoring in English translation, teaching and literature at Tehran University who were randomly selected. The analyzed data demonstrated that there are significant positive relationship between autonomy and academic achievement as well as motivation and academic achievement. While the findings of the study also depicted that learners' autonomy did not correlate with motivation significantly. In addition, according to the regression analysis, the scores’ autonomy are better predictors of academic achievement than motivation scores.

The main role of financial reporting is transferring information to outsiders in a credible manner, which it is realized by high quality disclosure of financial information. We investigate the relationship between information disclosure with profitability ratios as return on assets, return on equity, return on sales and dividend payout. Also panel data techniques and Binary Logit econometric model has been used in the period of 2008-2012. The results show that there is no significant relationship between information disclosure with return on equity and dividend payout, but there is a significant relationship with return on assets and return on sales.

The problems of adaptation and of reduced possibilities of expression and externalizing of the psychic or somatic suffering of alexithymic patients is a special attention among specialists, being outlined a set of measures taken to reduce these deficiencies. One of the methods with curative potential on the human psyche is the music therapy, which offers endless possibilities for improving somatic and mental suffering. The interest for this art grows, more so when the latest researches finds many advantages attributable to the music, this being achieved thanks to the action of sound vibrations on the cerebral cortex, which may serve as a means of stimulation and potentiation of some intellectual and affective processes. However, the music can accomplish the major goal in achieving a cathartic process, acting as a purifier to the accumulated negative emotions, present in alexithymic patients . To develop a deeper perspective into communicative sphere, invite you to the reflection on the influence of musicby designing an intervention process in the future and awareness of how this can be done. Keywords: alexithymia, music therapy, emotional catharsis, music diagnosis.

Recently the sediment tracing has been increasingly employed as a means of establishing sediment source information. The first step of this approach is the selection of diagnostic properties, which distinguish potential sediment sources in an unequivocal manner. However the selection of the most effective properties is required in the design of cost-effective catchment management strategies. This contribution reports an attempt to address this issue by testing the discrimination of sediment source within two small drainage basins in Iran using four base cations (Na, K, Ca and Mg). By field investigation, 10 representative samples were collected from each sediment sources per catchments. Several statistical methods were applied to the data including the Kruskal-Wallis, discrimination function analysis (DFA) and multivariate stepwise selection algorithm. The results indicate that in the case of the Amrovan basin, K is the most sensitive discriminator of source type (65 %), followed in decreasing order by Na (60 %), Mg (55 %) and Ca (45 %).  In the case of the larger and more complex Atary drainage basin, Na and Mg are the best individual properties which successfully classify 54% of source material samples into the correct categories, followed in decreasing order by Ca (52 %) and K (45 %).

The thermal power plants are designed based on required conditions (like quality of steam, pressure and temperature of steam e.t.c.), but actually inlet conditions are not as per the design conditions. In practical situations, when power plants are installed there are lots of constraints. This tends to reduce or increase output power and heat rate of thermal power plants. These constraints are leakages, installation errors etc. So due to these conditions, the designed power and heat rate are never achieved. Due to these variations in the power output from plants, it is always a matter of disputes. So the correction curves for power and heat rate are generated for pressure drop in extraction line 5, as a parameter at different conditions. These curves indicate that if operating conditions are vary, then power output and heat rate also vary. This paper deals with the generation of the correction curves for 120 MW thermal power plant by using computer aided software for pressure drop in extraction line 5.

Graham Greene is a colossal figure in twentieth century literature. He is a prolific writer and has proved to be one of the main literary experts to the English speaking world. His writings are not just pieces of entertainment. They have more profound meaning and significance. Greene’s childhood seemed to be unhappy. From the events and influences of Greene’s early life readers can gather evidence of “flight, rebellion and misery during those first sixteen years when the novelists is formed.”1 Being a sensitive boy, Greene felt cramped in the environment in which he was placed. From his book of essays, The Lost Childhood and from his autobiography, A Sort of Life, we get an idea of Greene’s feeling of a sense of emptiness, boredom and lifeless depression during his early years.