this study investigates the cohesive devices used in the textbook of english for the students of psychology. the research questions and hypotheses in the present study are based on what frequency and distribution of grammatical and lexical cohesive devices are. then, to answer the questions all grammatical and lexical cohesive devices in reading comprehension passages from 6 units of 21units th...

this study investigates the problem of translating religious allusions in persian literature, namely the ones borrowed from quranic verses and hadiths. the purpose of this study is to shed light on how different translators dealt with such a task and also to provide guidelines for translators in coping with religious allusions.

nowadays enhancing critical thinking in learners is considered one of the foreign language teachers’ tasks due to its high position in foreign language classrooms. when it comes to selecting materials for language classrooms, there are obviously some criteria that teachers should apply. the present study aimed at a critical thinking based analysis of ten picture story books and ten folktales th...

 In the university timetabling problem, necessity of considering variables corresponding to lessons, teachers, classes, days of the week and hours bring about a large scale mix integer linear programming problem. Usually the problem is so big that the exact mathematical programming solvers can not solve them in a small period of time. So variety of heuristic algorithms is proposed to solve such...

We can call “EFQM excellence model” as a transition from the great number of different models and approaches to unity in context of organizational improvement and excellence.Doing self assessment to find areas for improvement (AFIs) is the most important applications of this model. Organizations specially those ones which are on lower levels of total quality management will encounter lots of AF...