abstract: the potato tuberworm, phthorimaea operculella (zeller), is an important insect pest of potato (solanum tuberosum l.) in the storage and field in most parts of the world especially in tropical and subtropical regions due to its close relationship with the host, high reproductive potential and high economic losses. information on host preference, life table parameters and digestive en...

abstract: postmethod is a newly developed pedagogy which as an alternative to method rejects the notion of good or bad methods and the concept of best method that can be generalized and appropriate for all contexts. instead, it treats each context as unique and one of a kind which cant be compared with other cases. this study is a postmethod-oriented one which investigates whether and how far t...

current studies in second language (l2) learning have revealed the positive role of corrective feedback (cf) in both oral and written forms in different language features. the present study was an attempt to investigate the effect of both direct and indirect written corrective feedback (wcf) on the use of grammatical collocations in l2 writing. the study also sought to examine whether the effec...

this study investigated the effects of manipulating the cognitive complexity of tasks along +/- few elements and the time limits on l2 learners writing performance. to conduct the study, 60 iranian efl learners with two levels of proficiency, low and high intermediate, were selected and assigned to three groups based on the time devoted to task completion. the participants performed both a simp...

This experiment was conducted to evaluate drought tolerance of different safflower genotypes as a split- plot experiment based on a complete block design with three replications. The main plot was irrigation at three levels on the basis of 70, 120 and 170 mm cumulative evaporation from Class A pan and ten different genotypes of the safflower were considered as subplots. Results of analysis of v...

In order to identify the yield related traits and to compare the yield and yield components twelve imported faba bean genotypes were evaluated in a randomized complete block design with three replications in a greenhouse experiment at Shahrekord University. The analysis of variance showed highly significant variation among the genotypes for all of the traits including plant height, dry straw we...