‘Scepticism’ in public attitudes towards climate change is seen as a significant barrier to public engagement. In an experimental study, we measured participants’ scepticism about climate change before and after reading two newspaper editorials that made opposing claims about the reality and seriousness of climate change (designed to generate uncertainty). A well-established social psychologica...

Energy is an inescapable part of today’s society and economy. Accomplishment of every work depends on the sufficient and incessant supply of energy. But the conventional fossil energy sources like oil are ultimately limited. Moreover, the increasing demand and flinching supply of oil has made the sustainable energy supply more vulnerable. So this vulnerability of conventional source of energy c...

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This study tried to examine EFL translators’ uncertainty and uncertainty management strategies through employing think aloud procedures. The participants of this study were some MA andBA translators selected from several universities in Iran. To this aim, a proficiency test was firstly administered among the volunteers. Then, think aloud protocol and retrospective interview were used to collect...

An 18 year old man with an incessant monomorphic VT was referred to the electrophysiology service for arrhythmia associated with decreased left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). The patient complained of occasional palpitations and was in functional class I. The past history was not significant and physical examination was unremarkable. The electrocardiogram showed wide QRS tachycardia sugg...