during 2010-2011 a faunistic survey was carried out for collection and identification of edaphic mesostigmatic mites (acari: mesostigmata) in jiroft and suburb. mites were extracted from soil samples by berlese funnel. the mites were cleared in nesbit fluid and were mounted in hoyer medium on microscopic slides. in this study 43 spices from 26 genera and 16 families were collected and identifie...

abstract: advertisements are the most accessible type of authentic materials, and this is one reason why they are used more and more in english teaching classes. for this cause, studies in the field of advertisements are very widespread nowadays. for pun is one aspect which makes advertisements more interesting, it is used more than before in advertisements. use of puns makes an advertisement m...

Background: The goal of crisis medicine management is to provide uniform ways to encounter with, interfere and renovation in the case of disasters in health system. With regard to the importance of hospitals’ awareness against crisis, the present study has tried to explain a process based model for crisis medicine to prevent inter- and intra- hospital incidents and minimize the resulting physic...

there are two major theories of measurement in psychometrics: classical test theory (ctt) and item-response theory (irt). despite its widespread and long use, ctt has a number of shortcomings, which make it problematic to be used for practical and theoretical purposes. irt tries to solve these shortcomings, and provide better and more dependable answers. one of the applications of irt is the as...

The recent upheavals in the Middle East, especially the Syrian crisis, have created new equations in the region. It seems that this crisis will ultimately affect the strategic axis of Iran, Syria and Hezbollah in the region. The present paper is mainly aimed at answering these key questions: 1) How will the current upheavals in Syria affect the triple axis and also Iran’s national security...

Background and objectives: Iran is an earthquake-prone country that has faced numerous crises in recent decades. The main purpose of this study is to consider the performance of educational managers to confront with the 2003 Bam earthquake crisis. This paper is an applied study. Method: This paper is a historical study with a qualitative approach. Various sources, including educational managers...

the current study aimed at investigating the relationship between motivation and test preparation strategies (tpss) used by iranian pre-university students in their preparation period for the university entrance exam (uee). due to the importance of uee in iran, this study also attempted to show its impact on these two important variables. to this end, 100 pre-university students in an iranian p...