a motor task performance and imagery show several parallel characteristics. in this study, the effect of a voluntary speed change in mental images of a complex difficult sequence of karate techniques on subsequent motor performance was assessed. 24 male karate volunteers (mean age: 24.58±5.27 years) who were well skilled at performing the sequence movements participated in the pretest. during t...

One of the elements in Persian poetry and sonnets (Ghazal) is penname, which in addition to marking poetry in the name of the poet, sometimes has an amphiboly to another means; but in the poetry of poets such as Hafez - which have a special and coherent intellectual system - in the form of a main metaphor or central metaphor, penname is involved in determining their intellectual system. In this...

in this research, different english translations of sa‘di’s bustan were studied. an anecdote was selected randomly with its three english translations to identify whether or not the translators have managed to convey the messages of the original poem. the three selected translations were examined according to two of the criteria that larson (1984) has proposed (accuracy and naturalness) for tes...

nima yooshij applied various techniques in order to describe diverse poetic subjects. this research deals with analysing the usage of these expressive techniques from two perspectives - poetic and structural. nima applied structural expressive techniques more often than poetic expressive techniques in order to describe various poetic subjects. these techniques include adjectives, adverbs, adjec...

sorrow is one of the poetic subjects which is frequent since the ignorance period through elegiac poems which are full of kindness and sad motions. but since the recent & new era in particular since he romanticism era it gains progress in such a way that it does not only appear through the poetic couplets which illustrate an experience of poetic elegical sense, but also it becomes of potential ...

The aim of this study is to determine the impact of imagery on self-efficiency and spike implementation of girl volleyball players in Tafresh, considering the mediating role of positive self-talk. For this purpose, in a non-equivalent pretest-posttest control group design, 45 female football players aged 17-25 with sports record of 6 months to 2 years were selected out of high schools and uni...