Objective The purpose of the present study was to investigate the center of pressure (CoP) movements during the jump-landing while defending on the net in professional volleyball players and compare it with beginner volleyball players. Methods In this research, 10 professional volleyball players and 10 beginner volleyball players voluntarily participated in this study. The CoP movements in ant...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate two perforated sills in the stilling basin and their impact on characteristics of the hydraulic jump, such as the length of the roller of hydraulic jump, decrease in the secondary depth of the hydraulic jump, and the required tailwater depth. Also, the optimal distance of two perforated sills from the beginning of the stilling basin with a fixed height ...

One of the usual ways to dissipate excess energy in the dam's downstream is hydraulic jump. Hydraulic jump is a rapidly varied flow, in which the flow conditions change from supercritical to sub-critical with a large amount of energy loss. In this research, a combination of two water jets in the form of overflow dam and underflow through a slot on the body of an ogee dam with the USBR standard ...

this thesis attempts to investigate the effects of prelistening activities on enhancing iranian efl learners` listening comprehension. the present study investigated ways in which learners` background knowledge could be activated in order to enhance their l2 listening comprehension by limiting the number of possible text interpretations prior to listening. the experiments conducted in this stud...

language learning courseware has been receiving growing attention by english educators since its advent. a variety of softwares have been designed by software designers and resorted to by language educators to supplement language textbooks. this experimental study investigated how the application of computerized version of language textbooks and the reception of the entire course through comput...