rivers and runoff have always been of interest to human beings. in order to make use of the proper water resources, human societies, industrial and agricultural centers, etc. have usually been established near rivers. as the time goes on, these societies developed, and therefore water resources were extracted more and more. consequently, conditions of water quality of the rivers experienced rap...

the debate whether esp teachers need to have knowledge of the specialized field they are teaching has been an issue in the literature over the last two decades. the aim of conducting this study was to explore iranian learners’ and instructors’ beliefs and attitudes concerning the role of specialized knowledge in teaching esp classes. a seventeen item questionnaire was administered to 400 esp le...

supervisors play an undeniable role in training teachers, before starting their professional experience by preparing them, at the initial years of their teaching by checking their work within the proper framework, and later on during their teaching by assessing their progress. but surprisingly, exploring their attributes, professional demands, and qualifications has remained a neglected theme i...

apart from other aspects, desert is a natural environment and is one of the appealing terrestrial elements. putting its symbolic and fictional senses aside, the term “desert” bears mystic sense more than material sense. in addition to the worlds materialistic experiences, desert has attracted the attention of writers because it creates a kind of inner experience, which returns the individual in...

the speech act of disagreement has been one of the speech acts that has received the least attention in the field of pragmatics. this study investigates the ways power relations, social distance, formality of the context, gender, and language proficiency (for efl learners) influence disagreement and politeness strategies. the participants of the study were 200 male and female native persian s...

an investigation into oral interaction in language classes: a conversation analytic point of view the aim of this thesis is to analyze the interaction between language teachers and students in english language institutes. this work is done in the context of yasuj city. learning another language, which is in most cases english, involves many variables. one of these variables is the linguistic...

Nowadays sustainable development is one of the most important concerns of societies, because sustainable development satisfies the basic needs, improves the general life style, protects ecosystem, and generally provides a safer and better future for human. Since cities are the main factors to unsustainability, the major discussions of sustainable development are in terms of urban sustainable de...

چکیده «محکم و متشابه»، «نسخ» و «قرائات» از موضوعات مهم علوم قرآنی است. آیت الله معرفت در هر سه موضوع ضمن نقد دیدگاههای گذشته و رایج، به ارائه نظریاتی بدیع پرداخته اند. تعریف روشن از محکم و متشابه، تفاوت بین متشابه و مبهم، طبقه بندی تشابه به ذاتی و عرضی و ضابطه مند ساختن معانی تأویلی و باطنی، از جمله نوآوری های آیت الله معرفت در حوزه محکم و متشابه به شمار می رود. در موضوع نسخ، شاهد دو قرائت...

in reality, most structures involved in geotechnical engineering are three dimensional in nature, and although in many, plane strain or axisymmetric approximations are reasonable, there are some, for which 3-d treatment is required. the quantity of data, and the size of the various vectors and matrices involved in such analysis, increase dramatically. this has sever implications for computer r...