the major aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between social and cultural capital and efl students’ critical thinking skills. this study takes this relationship in to account to see if people with different sociocultural status are different regarding their critical thinking skills. to this end, 160 university students majoring in english language and literature, english trans...

  Background and Aims: Physical, psychological and social problem along with significant changes in life style, diminish stoma patients quality of life. At the meanwhile self-efficacy can improve these patients’ quality of life. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between self-efficacy and quality of life in Ostomates.   Materials and Methods: In this descriptive cross-sectiona...

Introduction: One of the important factors for behavioral changes in chronic patients, especially cardiac patients, is the increased self-efficacy of these patients. The aim of this study was to determine correlation between defenses mechanism and self-efficacy in Ischemic Heart patient’s referred to Feiz hospital of Isfahan in 2017. Methods: This study was a correlational analytical study tha...

abstract sensitive and precise voltammetric methods for the determination of trace amounts of furaldehydes, mainly as furfural (f) and 5-hydroxymethyl-2-furaldehyde (hmf), in waste waters and other matrices is described. determination of total furaldehyde at < ?g g-1 levels in alkaline buffered aqueous media was individually investigated. by the use of ordinary swv and adsorptive square wave ...

Introduction: Health promoting behaviors are one of the key determinants of health. One of the most important situations in which health promoting behaviors are of particular ‎importance, is about female marginalized households. Therefore, this study was ‎conducted to determine the mean scores of health promoting behaviors and its six ‎dimensions, and also its relation to self-efficacy, social ...

the present study set out (a) to examine the categories of pedagogical knowledge related to the act of teaching of novice and experienced teachers as gleaned from their verbal report of what they were thinking about while teaching and (b) to compare the categories of pedagogical knowledge of novice and experienced teachers. the aim of comparing these two groups of teachers was to see whether di...

abstract this study examines the relationship between reading anxiety and difficulty of texts as well as the relationship between reading anxiety and students perceived difficulty of the texts. since difficulty is a relative concept, i limited its definition by sticking to the readability formula. we also took students perceived difficulty levels into account. therefore, in the present study, ...