Introduction: This study was conducted with aim of investigating the relationship between religious orientation and self-esteem of students. Methods: The present research was of a correlational study. The research population consisted of all students (boys and girls) studying at Islamic Azad University, Payam Noor and Applied Science universities in Darehshahr city in the academic year of 2013-...

Understanding the process and underlying mechanisms of speciation remains a challenging subject in evolutionary biology. Identifying genes that are essential to confer reproductive isolation is difficult and time consuming, and those that have been described as ‘speciation genes’ vary in terms of demonstrable effect (Swanson & Vacquier, 2002; Tregenza, 2002; Noor, 2003; Pitnick et al., 2003; Ri...

background and purpose: regarding the role of body image and self-esteem in mental health in women, research examined the mediating role of self-esteem and body image in relation to the self-compassion and mental health in female students research method: the population is composed of girl students of payam noor of delfan city. for this purpose, 280 students were selected by random cluster samp...

this research aims at investigating electronic journals’ acceptance among payam-e-noor university faculty members as well as studying the influential factors in that. of all faculty members approached in this study, 169 ones returned the questioners. findings show that e-journals’ acceptance among faculty members is at average level on the basis of which it seems both printed and electronic jou...

background: reduction of physical activity among people is one of the most important problems of society which is resulted from life industrialization. the aim of this study was to survey knowledge and theory of planned behavior constructs inclusive attitude, intention, subjective norms and perceived behavioral control regarding girl student’s physical activity in naein payam noor university in...

conclusions our findings highlighted the importance of ei and its aspects in asds in the university students recruited in the present study. therefore, improvement in ei and its dimensions can decrease autism symptoms and signs in individuals with asds. overall, the result of this study emphasizes the key role of ei as a plausible health predictor. background autism spectrum traits may present ...

in order to evaluation the effect of drought stress on germination indices and early seedling growth of medicinal herb dill (anethum graveolens l), an experiment was conducted in the agricultural laboratory of urmia payam noor university in 2015 as a randomized complete block design with four replications. treatments were five levels of drought stress (0, -1, -2, -3 and -4 bar induced by polyet...

Computer anxiety as a kind of state anxiety that refer to “the negative emotional and cognitive reactions in some people that occur during work with the computer” and maybe considered as a challenge to their capabilities. In the present study, computer anxiety and positive and negative attitudes to it were examinated among undergraduate students of Kangavar Payam-e-Noor University. This descrip...