this study compares the amount and type of direct and indirect strategies and peripheral modifications employed by persian speakers and persian language learners in the request speech act, in different contexts (concerning formality, familiarity and importance of the subject of request). a discourse completion test, as well as direct observation, was used as the main instrument for data collect...

In this thesis, media convergence strategies and added value of digital news services are investigated, focusing on the newspaper industry and it’s audience. Convergence implies that previously unalike areas come together, approaching a common goal. A subordinate concept of convergence, i.e., media convergence, is a concept that has become common when denoting a range of processes within the pr...

AIM This study examined the career anchor characteristics that are possessed by Japanese occupational health nurses. METHOD Sixteen occupational health nurses participated in the semistructured interview. Data analyses were conducted using descriptive qualitative methods. RESULTS The data showed the following five categories: practices concerning relationships and positions; development of ...

access to the right to the highest attainable level of health is a constitutional right that obliges governments and other players to take step to increase all individuals' chances of obtaining good health. at the least, health and education are two crucial requirements for this as well. iran's vision 2025 is going to lead the country to a developed state with the highest rank of economic, scie...

Learners sometimes have incoherent and fragmented intuitive prior knowledge that is (partly) "incompatible" with the to-be-learned contents. Such knowledge in pieces can cause conceptual disorientation and cognitive overload while learning. We hypothesized that a pre-training intervention providing a generalized schema as a structuring framework for such knowledge in pieces would support (re)or...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to investigate the pursuit of achievement goals in medical students and to assess the relationship between achievement goals, learning strategy, and motivation. METHODS Two hundred seventy freshman and sophomore premedical students and sophomore medical school students participated in this study, which used the Achievement Goals Scale and the Self-Regulate...

the purpose of the managerialism is economy, efficiency, effectiveness in provision public services. also it emphasizes to follow the market strategies instead of bureaucracy. due to increasing productivity of public services management by using flexible styles and public opinion, this approach has provided to response the problems of traditional theory of administration. negative aspects of ma...

Recently, the sharing economy has emerged as a new consumption style. Although sharing's additional environmental loads and rebound effects are concerning, it potential to reduce by suppressing production effective use of products. In this study, we investigated differences among consumers based on their usage experiences future intentions, focusing various services. We consumers' motivations b...