Objective Empowerment is a process that helps the physically-handicapped people to break the poverty loop, achieve self-reliance and self-sufficiency, and join the mainstream of life. This study aimed to investigate the empowerment (sense of meaningfulness, effectiveness, autonomy, self-efficacy and sense of security, and their related factors) of the physically-handicapped people (motor, visce...

abstract the purpose of this study was to find out the effect of applying the principles of group-dynamic assessment (g-da) on learning of conditional structures in english by iranian efl learners at the intermediate level, which according to the formal educational system in iran, includes students who are in their second year of studying in high schools of koohdasht city. this study was a qua...

since the 1960s the age effects on learning both first and second language have been explored by many linguists and applied linguists (e.g lennerberg, 1967; schachter, 1996; long, 1990) and the existence of critical period for language acquisition was found to be a common ground of all these studies. in spite of some common findings, some issues about the impacts of age on acquiring a second or...

Transfusion of blood products from an infected person with AIDS, is meant to infect recipient. Blood Products such as whole blood, red blood cells, platelets, plasma, frozen blood precipitate, factor VIII, factor IX, can be infected with HIV. Transmissions from blood factors can be seen in plasma from thousands of donors that were collected in a container and were used to treat hemophilia. Bloo...