rivers and runoff have always been of interest to human beings. in order to make use of the proper water resources, human societies, industrial and agricultural centers, etc. have usually been established near rivers. as the time goes on, these societies developed, and therefore water resources were extracted more and more. consequently, conditions of water quality of the rivers experienced rap...

abstract target-oriented approaches to translation studies are regarded as recent theories of translation. one of the most famous theories among these approaches is descriptive translation studies presented by toury (1995). this theory gives a new dimension to translation studies and gives importance to the descriptive rather than prescriptive studies. it also identifies three sets of transla...

abstract the current study set out to address the issue as to whether the implementation of portfolio assessment would give rise to iranian pre-intermediate efl learner autonomy. participants comprised 60 female in pre-intermediate level within the age range of 16-28.they were selected from among 90 language learners based on their scores on language proficiency test -key english test. then, t...

hydrochlorothiazide (hct) is a diuretic agent which is shown to be effective in the treatment of hypertension. literature reports have demonstrated that urinary excretion data may be used to assess the bioavailability of various formulations containing this thiazide. also hct consumption by the athletes is one of the drugs which should be regulated by world anti-doping agency (wada), because of...

This research was carried out to evaluate the effect of two mycorrhiza species on growth, yield and oil content of geranium under salinity stress. The experiment was done at research greenhouse of Faculty of Agriculture, Lorestan University, Iran, in 2014. Four levels of substrate (sterilised and non-sterilised control soil and sterilised soil inoculated with Glomus mosseae or G. intraradices),...

Abstract In this experiment, the effect of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) Glomus mosseae and G. etunicatum on root colonization, plant growth and nutrient uptake, chlorophyll content (a, b, total and cartenoid) and carbohy-drate content were studied in six genotypes of mint (Mentha spicata L.) in pots. The AM inoculation significant-ly increased the fresh and dry weight of sh...

the aim of this study was to identify the problems of translating markedness structures from english to persian in order to look closely at what possible difficulties translators may face. it also seeks to probe the strategies applied accordingly by iranian translators in translating them. from three translation of blindness novel, the sentences with marked structures were elicited and also the...