Using modern, electronic technology to promote the culture and worldview of technology producers and to subjugate its consumers is the gist of what McPhail (2006) calls electronic colonialism theory (ECT). As an example of electronic technology, Internet-mediated English educational materials are rapidly growingbut they do not appear to have been critically analyzed in terms of their potential ...

The Spanish Flu was one of the disasters in history Iran, especially Southern which led to death a significant number people Iran. It started on October 29, 1917, and lasted till 1920 – disaster that we can claim changed history. In First World War battlefields southern Iran 1918, there nothing left until end I when battle between Iranian warriors (especially Dashtestan Tangestan Bushehr, Arabs...

There are countless high mountains in Tibet, and ancient Tibetans believed that gods resided on every one of them. The worship of mountain gods was one of the most important forms of nature worship among ancient Tibetans; it was fundamental to their entire belief system. Each mountain god possessed his own territory and was in charge of particular affairs. Around each god sprang up myths, legen...

study of the works left behind from the pre-islamic culture of iran and the periods after that indicate the fact that growing the hair of one’s head and beard has not been regarded as a negative point. the faces of noble and the common people, the akaemenid kings, and the sasanid clerics indicate that shaving the head and face in the pre-islamic era had been almost unknown, except in some rare ...

background: happiness as one of the main positive health indicators has drawn more attention in recent years among policy makers and health system managers. there are few studies performed to measure happiness in population-based settings in iran. in response to this need, our study tends to assess iranians subjective happiness in tehran, capital city of iran. m aterials and methods: present st...

getting married with relatives is considered as the salient kinds of marriage in iran and it is of a particular position in the culture of ordinary people. among the different kinds of marriage of relatives, the cousin marriage is of the most frequency.  the main question of the present research is linked to” the sort of the view point and behavioral status of iranian concerning the marriage of...

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini urged Iranians yesterday to rejoice in their final break with the “ world-devouring plunder’’ America, and the Tehran gov­ ernment began mobilizing the people for a “ holy war” of belt-tightening and possible rationing to grapple with econ­ omic woes. President Abolhassan BaniSadr declared there was “ no reason to worry” about the U.S. econom ic em bargo ag a in st I...

BACKGROUND Social health is a dimension of health affected and interacts with other dimensions. Considering the rate of world changes, foresighting the influence of future events and possible trends on social health could bring about advantageous information for social policy makers. METHODS This is a qualitative study of futurology with cross impact analysis approach. After studying possible...

Genetic polymorphisms have been shown to be involved in dopaminergic neurotransmission. This may influence susceptibility to Parkinson's disease (PD). We performed a case-control study of the association between PD susceptibility and a genetic polymorphism of MAOB and COMT, both separately and in combination, in Iranians. The study enrolled 103 Iranian patients with PD and 70 healthy individual...