Learning styles are considered among the significant factors that aid instructors in deciding how well their students learn a second or foreign language (Oxford, 2003). Although this issue has been accepted broadly in educational psychology,further research is required to examine the relationship between learning styles and language learning skills. Thus, the present study was carried out to in...

AIMS Left ventricular (LV) lead placement to the most delayed segment offers the greatest potential benefit to cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). We assessed the impact of interventricular (VV) optimization on acute changes in cardiac output (CO) in patients with and without LV pacing of the most delayed segment. METHODS AND RESULTS In 124 patients, the most delayed segment was defined ...

Critical pedagogy is regarded as an exhaustive system of learning through which learners' critical consciousness, self-regulation and autonomy, individuality, and learning achievements are promoted. Therefore, 60 Iranian upper- intermediate EFL learners (both male and female) from among 75 students based on their OPT test scores were selected. These participants were divided into a control grou...

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Flight testing of aircraft in which new design concepts, problems, and deficiencies are examined, involves the collection of a large quantity of data or test parameters allocated onto blocks within a telemetry frame or Data Cycle Map (DCM). Individual parameters are sampled at different rates and may vary in both their word length and the number of words used to represent them. During a flight ...

Study objective. To compare patient satisfaction with emergency department (ED) opt-in and opt-out HIV screening. Methods. We conducted a survey in an urban ED that provided rapid HIV screening using opt-in (February 1, 2007-July 31, 2007) and opt-out (August 1, 2007-January 31, 2008) approaches. We surveyed a convenience sample of patients that completed screening in each phase. The primary ou...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, use of online instruction through different mobile applications has become more common in education all over world. Therefore, this research investigated potential effects using WeChat-based on Iranian EFL learners’ vocabulary knowledge. To achieve objective, 44 intermediate subjects were picked out among 67 students based findings Oxford Quick Placement Test (OQPT...

the present study was an attempt to investigate the acquisition of negationproperties by persian monolingual and kurdish-persian bilingual learners of englishacross different levels of language proficiency and within a generative framework.generative models are generally concerned with issues such as universal grammar(ug), language transfer, and morphological variability in nonprimary languaged...