as a culture-based phenomenon which involves both linguistic and social aspects, translation has beeninvestigated from various perspectives. the present critical discourse analysis (cda)-based study isan attempt to probe into the manipulation of ideologies in translations of political texts. a cda approach,based on fairclough (1989), van dijk (2004) and farahzad (2007), was adopted to conductth...

objectives: resilience is one of important subjects in health psychology. a lot of studies have investigated factors that are connected to resilience. the objective of this research was to determine role of the positive affect, negative affect and optimism, as predicting variables. method: the participants in the research were 201 students of shiraz university (100 males, 101 females) who exper...

aims: the internal unit and icu of hospitals are a suitable environment for growing of bacteria such as staphylococcus epidermidis and pseudomonas, acinetobacter. the aim of our study was to evaluate the effect of different disinfectants on bacteria isolated from the surface of hospitals in isfahan. instrument & methods: in this study, 200 samples were randomly selected from different parts of ...

Sir, We would like to respond to the article titled "Re-emergence of positive symptoms of schizophrenia during the course of treatment with risperidone" (Bajaj et al.), that was published in the Indian Journal of Psychiatry, Vol.41/No.2/April, 1999. It was quite interesting to note that these authors had observed a re-emergence of positive symptoms in 7 patients, out of 30 patients of schizophr...