this study investigates the relationship between field-related cognitive styles and global reading comprehension of hypertext. technically, field dependency is prevailing dominance of field on perception of parts, while global comprehension is skim-like reading to grasp the general content. in this research project, 60 senior and junior students of arak university majoring in english literature...

the main purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between listening proficiency and metacognitive listening strategies awareness among low, mid, and highly self-regulated students. three hundred and seventy one efl students participated in this study (all grade 3 and 4 high-school students who were studying in khansar in academic year 1391-92). to gather the data, three ...

why some learners are willing to communicate in english, concurrently others are not, has been an intensive investigation in l2 education. willingness to communicate (wtc) proposed as initiating to communicate while given a choice has recently played a crucial role in l2 learning. it was hypothesized that wtc would be associated with language learning orientations (llos) as well as social suppo...

‏‎the community dynamics of aquatic coleoptera(insecta)in one of the spring-stream habitats of bammo national park in fars province called cheshmeh-ye-ghanbari is studied as a pilot project and model for acquaintance with and furthering the biodiversity studies on fauna of iran. sixteen species-populations out of nineteen of this community were already identified for their taxonomy and for thei...

Background: Today, nursing education, basing on programs that emphasize the role of nursing instructors and special attention on students. Methods: This was a quasi- experimental study. The population of the study consisted of all nursing students in their last year of their field training who were being trained in their dialysis unit (n =114) and were divided into two experimental and control...

Background: Monitoring and/or control are the management main duties. This duty is so important which some of authorities believed that efficient management depends on Effective Control System (ECS).This study aimed at identifyingbarriersandfacilitators of performance monitoring and providing some strategies for effective health care monitoring.Materials and Method: This study was a qualitative...

nitric oxide (no) is a small molecule synthesized by most of mammalian cells with diverse biological activities including vasodilatation, host defense and wound healing. impaired wound healing is a common occurrence among diabetics and patients receiving glucocorticoid therapy. on the other hand the application of laser in biomedical area have been increased. thus, the current studies were desi...

Background and Aim: Accelerated population growth around the world is a critical barrier on the way of social, economical, and cultural development of countries. Regarding the importance of birth control programs for the Ministry of Health and Medical Education and the fact that employed women form a main stratum of the community with their own peculiar beliefs, the study of their fertility (p...

the treatment of in completely formed pulpless teeth has presented considrable problems. these teeth have wide open apexes and the walls of the root canal diverge toward the apical tissues. mechanical preparation cannot be done in the normal manner beacause of the large initial size and the taper of apical part of the canal , a mechanical stop cannot be produced at the apex of the canal and , t...