In order to improve quantitative and qualitative properties and vase life of rose cv. Dolcvita, an experiment was conducted in a randomized complete blocks design with ten treatments and three replications in a hydroponic greenhouse adjacent to Yasouj city, Iran. Treatments included control, spermidine (0.5, 1 and 1.5 mM), calcium sulfate (2.5 and 5 mM), spermidine 0.5 mM+ calcium sulfate 2.5 m...

assigning premium to the insurance contract in iran mostly has based on some old rules have been authorized by government, in such a situation predicting premium by analyzing database and it’s characteristics will be definitely such a big mistake. therefore the most beneficial information one can gathered from these data is the amount of loss happens during one contract to predicting insurance ...

“any science seeks generalities; the aim is to transcend knowledge of particular cases by discovering general regularities or laws” (chesterman, 2001, p. 1). these were the words of chesterman whose paper has served as a typical example of numerous papers carried out on ‘translation universals’ since the mid-nineties. blum-kulka (1986) is among translation studies scholars who proposed ‘explici...

abstract the first purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of consciousness-raising (c-r) activities on learning grammatical structures (simple present tense in this case) by iranian guidance school efl learners. the second one was to investigate the effect of gender on learning the simple present tense through c-r activities and tasks. finally, this study aimed to investigate the ...

  Background: This study was designed to determine the effects of calcium-vitamin D supplementation on insulin resistance, inflammatory factor and biomarkers of oxidative stress among healthy pregnant women and pregnancy outcomes.   Methods: This randomized double-blind controlled clinical trial was performed among 42 p regnant women, aged 18-40 year old who were carrying singleton pregnancy at...