Background: Lifestyle in adolescence has the most important role in the prevention from  osteoporosis in adulthood. Therefore this study was done to investigate the lifestyle preventive from osteoprosis among Zanjanian girl students. Methods: In this descriptive – analytical study, 864 students were selected from guidance schools and high schools of Zanjan city based on  Multi-stage random sam...

Background and Objectives: The amount of physical activity as an essential determinant of healthy lifestyle in females is less than is required. Theory-driven health education interventions, particularly Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), are effective in promoting and sustaining physical activity. This research evaluated the TPB-based educational intervention on exercise behavior and anthropome...

the main purpose of this study was to investigate any relationship between high school efl teachers metaphorical understandings of their role in class and their self-efficacy beliefs. teachers metaphors were elicited through two different prompts: one picturing what they believed a language teacher should be like in class, and the other demonstrating what they are actually like in class; such...

charles dickens was a voracious reader even in his childhood. his early reading of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century picaresque fiction greatly influenced his writing style. his first novel, the pickwick papers, is a tale of rogues and swindlers, adventures and quests, satire and comedy, and innocence and experience. oliver twist, dickens’ second novel, is a young boy’s progress through a cor...

Introduction: Considering the well-known importance of physical activity in determining the health level of people, especially children and teenagers, identifying factors predicting the level of physical activity can be effective in providing effective strategies to improve the health of this group. Therefore, the present research was conducted with the aim of identifying the role of perceived ...

Introduction and purpose:In old age, physical activity decreases and its reduction is a risk factor for many illnesses associated with unhealthy lifestyle. Hence, physical activity is an important part of the elderly health program.The aim of this study was to determine the physical activity and its effective factors in the elderly in Qazvin. Materials and Methods: This descriptive-analytic st...

abstract the present study was conducted to examine the effect of proficiency on students interaction while carrying out the grammar-based task(s) in collaboration. in particular, the study examines whether the level of proficiency affects the learners’ focus of attention to grammatical and lexical features. the study takes a further step and examines whether there is any difference in the use...