The Gilaki and Mazandarani occupy the South Caspian region of Iran and speak languages belonging to the North-Western branch of Iranian languages . It has been suggested that their ancestors came from the Caucasus region, perhaps displacing an earlier group in the South Caspian . Linguistic evidence supports this scenario, in that the Gilaki and Mazandarani languages (but not other Iranian lang...

Raana Zakeri, Shirin Nosratnejad. MSc of Health Services Management, School of Management and Medical Informatics, Iranian Center for Evidence-Based Medicine, Iranian Center of Excellence for Health Management, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; PHD in Health Economic, Iranian Center of Excellence in Health Services Management, Department of Health Services Management, School ...

Mitra Torabi, Farnaz Naeemzadeh, Vida Ebrahimi, Negar Taleschian-Tabrizi, Fariba Pashazadeh, Hossein Nazemie. Students’ Research Committee, Iranian Evidence-Based Medicine Center of Excellence, School of Pharmacy, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Students’ Research Committee, Iranian Evidence-Based Medicine Center of Excellence, School of Medicine, Tabriz University of Medic...

BACKGROUND Support for breastfeeding is a public health priority. One of the major factors that can negatively affect breastfeeding is the lack of breast milk. There are many instructions on the subject of breast milk in Iranian traditional medicine resources. This article attempts to investigate causes and reasons for the lack of breast milk from the perspective of the great scholars in this f...

The present study examined email communication practices of two groups of students in Iran and the United States to uncover the probable differences between Iranian and American email communication norms. The study also aimed at investigating how power distance in academic centers influences students’ choices of communication strategies in email writing. The use of two politeness strategies nam...

This study attempts to examine Iranian English language teachers’ perception towards the use of discourse markers (DMs) in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom. It is the contention of this study that past research studies have not paid sufficient attention to how teachers perceive the use of discourse markers in the English language classroom. This research extends on Fung’s (2011...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to provide research and collaboration overview of Iranian research efforts in the field of traditional medicine during 2010-2014. METHODS This is a bibliometric study using the Scopus database as data source, using search affiliation address relevant to traditional medicine and Iran as the search strategy. Subject and geographical overlay maps were also ap...

BACKGROUND About 15% of couples have infertility problems which 40% of them are related to the male factors. Genetic factors are candidate for about 10% of male infertility conditions. Among these, AZFa, AZFb, AZFc and AZFd regions on the Yq are considered most important for spermatogenesis. Microdeletions of these regions are thought to be involved in some cases of azoospermic or oligospermic ...

BACKGROUND Caucasian norms are still used in the orthodontic treatment of Iranian patients, despite the different ethnic backgrounds of Iranians. The aims of this study were to evaluate the cephalometric features of an Iranian population and to establish cephalometric norms for Iranian living in the central region of Iran (Isfahan). MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 238 lateral cephalometric r...

This study reports an investigation of Iranian test-takers’ use of cognitive and metacognitive strategies while performing on IELTS reading tests. Specifically, the study set out to investigate: a) the relationship between Iranian test-takers’ use of cognitive and metacognitive strategies and their L2 reading test performance on the reading section of the IELTS test; and b) the role gender migh...