like any other learning activity, translation is a problem solving activity which involves executing parallel cognitive processes. the ability to think about these higher processes, plan, organize, monitor and evaluate the most influential executive cognitive processes is what flavell (1975) called “metacognition” which encompasses raising awareness of mental processes as well as using effectiv...

Paddy soils provide the staple diet for nearly half of the world's population. The formation of the Anthrosols is induced by tilling the wet soil (puddling), flooding and drainage regimes associated with the development of a plow pan and specific redoximorphic features. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of long-term rice cultivation on physico-chemical properties and clay mineralo...

The bentonites of Aftar region, with average of 15 meters thickness and about 10 km long, are volcanoclastic sequence of Semnan Formation that formed in a shallow sea water environment. Based on the field, XRD data, microscopic and scanning electron microscopic (SEM) studies, as well as chemistry, the bentonite beds contain zeolites (clinoptilolite and mordenite), gypsum, calcite, celestine, op...

In Iran, a large extent of the soils and water are facing with salinity; so the geotechnical properties of arid and saline soils are important for engineering design. In this study, the effects of salinity on geotechnical properties of fine-grained and coarse-grained soils containing fibrous clay minerals have been studied. The results showed that salinity was mostly a flocculated agent in fine...

The Hatamabad prospect area is located in northeast of Qaen, South Khorasan Province and in northeast of Lut block. The geology of area consists of volcanic rocks with basalt- andesite composition and sedimentary sequences (mudstone, limestone, and conglomerate) with Paleocene-Eocene age that monzodioritic dikes were intruded in them. Monzodioritic dikes have high-k calc-alkaline and metalumino...

Infrared spectroscopy (IR) is a powerful tool to decipher the molecular groups in the minerals. This technique of detection, using atomic vibrations of molecules, that is identified through a process of absorption, makes possible the necessary mechanisms of phase analysis of minerals. In this paper, after a brief description of infrared spectroscopy, two groups of minerals will be explained by ...

wireless sensor networks (wsns) are one of the most interesting consequences of innovations in different areas of technology including wireless and mobile communications, networking, and sensor design. these networks are considered as a class of wireless networks which are constructed by a set of sensors. a large number of applications have been proposed for wsns. besides having numerous applic...