previous studies have aimed at testing a hypothesis but the present study is data-first research in which researcher tries to form a theory from data rather than the use of data to test a hypothesis. this study aims at exploring teachers perceptions of the strengths and weaknesses of the current syllabus for college preparatory course. eight experienced teachers were selected to collect data du...

the present study aimed at exploring cognitions of iranian english teachers within the context of english for academic purposes (eap). to this end, the cognitions of two groups of eap teachers with respect to their pedagogical content knowledge (pck) and their sense of professional identity (pi) were probed. two language teachers and two content instructors who had at least five years of eap te...

data envelopment analysis (dea) is a powerful tool for measuring relative efficiency of organizational units referred to as decision making units (dmus). in most cases dmus have network structures with internal linking activities. traditional dea models, however, consider dmus as black boxes with no regard to their linking activities and therefore do not provide decision makers with the reasons...

مطالعه 148 نمونه از سازند سروک در برش تنگ چنارباشی در جنوب شرق شهرستان ایلام واقع در مرکز استان ایلام از جهت سنگ چینه نگاری، سیستماتیک، زیست چینه نگاری (بر اساس فرامینیفرا و الیگوستژینید) و چینه نگاری سکانسی بر اساس (hunt&tucker, 1992 ; 1995) انجام شد. با مطالعه سنگ چینه نگاری مشخص شد که در این مطالعه مرز زیرین سازند سروک با شیل آهکی و میان لایه سنگ آهک سازند گرو پیوسته و با سنگ آهک های رسی س...

‏‎despite the different criticisms on contrastive analysis it has been proved that the results of it(when processed) can be useful in a tefl environment, specially at the level of phonology.this study is an attempt to compare and contrast the sound systems of kurdish and english for pedagogical aims.the consonants,vowels,stress and intonation of the two languages are described by the same model...

this study was conducted to investigate the effect of favorite-text on iranian intermediate efl learners’ vocabulary development. sixty learners from nour-al-mahdi english institute participated in the present study. having been homogenized by oxford placement test (opt), they were randomly assigned into two groups of 30, control and experimental. then both groups sat for a pre-test which was a...

Pegmatite-aplite dykes from north east of Lorestan Province is located about 25 km east of Boroujerd city and consists of three major zones, from outside to inside including graphic, layered and core zone that obviously shows the effect of fractional crystallization in pegmatites. Microprobe analysis performed on minerals (tourmaline, plagioclase and muscovite) from each three zones. Tourmaline...

چکیده هدف اصلی این پژوهش شناسایی الزامات نظام مدیریت کیفیت فراگیر در حوزه پژوهشی دانشگاه اصفهان بود. سوالهای پژوهش با توجه به مولفه های مدیریت کیفیت (تعهد مدیران، بهبود مستمر فرایندها ، مشتری محوری ، منابع انسانی ، مدیریت اطلاعات ، زیرساختهای کیفیت ، استفاده از نتایج ، انعطاف پذیری، مشارکت در فعالیتهای پژوهشی، ایجاد فرهنگ کیفیت و تناسب ساختارهای سازمانی) که بر اساس مطالعه استانداردهای بین المل...

In this study, for climate zoning and determining the effects of climate change on discharge of Jajrood River Basin, data from 9 available stations in Jajrood River Basin were used. In order to create climatic zones in the Jajrood River Basin, multivariate cluster analysis was used. To validate the data, discriminant analysis was employed. For investigating the effects of temperature and precip...