background: today, obesity is considered as a health problem that increases the risk of some diseases. therefore, identifying the effective factors on obesity is of great importance. shift work is one of the indicators for increased risk of obesity in society and also shift work may cause various health problems for workers in military organizations. the current study aimed to investigate the r...

copper smelting slags are hard materials. therefore,to recover their copper by flotation method, grinding should be carried out to obtain optimal particle size. copper smelting slags in the bardeskan district, with work index of 16.24 kwh/st, were grinded for 65 minutes to reach an acceptable degree of freedom for the flotation tests, with particle size of 80%, smaller than 70 μm. with this gri...

Critical thinking in the college classroom actively engages students in higher order thinking about course material: questioning, applying, analyzing, synthesizing and/or evaluating it using reasoning, logic, and problem-solving abilities. It moves beyond the mere acquisition and retention of information. The resources below provide research, bibliographies, methods, articles, and handouts for ...

We apply the method of Fuzzy Analytic Network Process (ANP-Fuzzy) to evaluate strategic leadership, because its indexes are complex, inter-relationship, and fuzzy. First, construct indexes system of strategic leadership ,which constitutes of personal abilities and organizational abilities. Second, interpret the fitness of ANP-Fuzzy for strategic leadership and the method’s implication steps of ...

Article history: Received 19 May 2009 Received in revised form 13 July 2009 Accepted 22 August 2009 Available online 15 September 2009 A latent variable analysis was conducted to examine the nature of individual differences in lapses of attention and their relation to executive and fluid abilities. Participants performed a sustained attention task along with multiple measures of executive contr...

This study investigated associations between working memory (measured by complex memory tasks) and both reading and mathematics abilities, as well as the possible mediating factors of fluid intelligence, verbal abilities, short-term memory (STM), and phonological awareness, in a sample of 46 6- to 11-year-olds with reading disabilities. As a whole, the sample was characterized by deficits in co...