background: the spread of technology has influenced different aspects of human life, and teaching and learning are not exceptions. this study aimed to examine the potential contribution of the use of technology in teaching english language to medical students.   methods: this qualitative-action research study was conducted in birjand university of medical sciences (bums), with 60 medical studen...

objectives: verbal self-instruction strategy is one of the useful techniques for treating individual with learning disability. the purpose of the present study was to determine the effect of verbal self-instructional package on the social competence of students with learning disability. methods: the study was done in a quasi-experimental research and pre-test, post-test design with control grou...

introduction: it has been reported that acute administration of morphine impairs learning and memory processes in rats. furthermore, recent studies showed that saffron extract improved ethanol-induced impairments of learning behaviors in mice, and also prevented ethanol-induced inhibition of hippocampal long-term potentiation. it can be postulated that there are some common mechanisms responsib...

change the interests of young people toward communicating in cyberspace, using mobile phone and sms communications is a threat in the some critics’ point of view, which can be an opportunity to learn anytime, anywhere. mobile learning is an approach to targeted nourishing of curious minds of technology generation in the wireless communication world. thus, this study toward establishing the grou...

in the current turbulent environment, sustainable organizational success cannot be achieved without considering organizational learning. due to the global pressures, higher education institutions including agriculture colleges should turn to learning organizations to face the challenges ahead. hence, the purpose of this descriptive correlational study is to investigate organizational learning a...

results twelve original studies fulfilled the inclusion criteria. the current literature suggests that the learning curve of robotic rectal surgery varies between 15 and 44 cases and is probably shorter to that of laparoscopic rectal surgery. conclusions there are only a few studies assessing the learning curve of robotic rectal surgery and they possess several differences in methodology and ou...

learning is a cornerstone of intelligent behavior in animals. this behavior has been mostly studied in organisms with a fairly complex nervous system. however, recent reports of learning in unicellular organisms suggested the existence of associative learning in unicellular organisms. in particular, the capability to associate different light intensities with cathodal stimulation in paramecium ...

this talk will introduce the idea that talent development is related to learning where learning is the physiological process of neuro-plastic changes in the brain. to develop talents, individuals must move from novice or beginner’s status to expertise levels of knowledge or skills in a particular domain. learning depends on maximizing an individual’s potential through the experiences he or she ...

the present study aimed to study guidelines for jihad-e-keshavarzi organization of gilan province to become learning organization through strengthening organizational citizenship behavior and attitudes of employees. a questionnaire based survey was applied to 159 employees estimated through stratified random sampling. the face and content validity of questionnaire was confirmed by panel of expe...

the aim of this research was to explain the difference in the dimensions of learning organization between federations of team and individual sports. this research was a comparative survey. the statistical population consisted of 795 fulltime employees of iran sport federations. out of 212 returned questionnaires, 158 questioners were from individual sport federations and 54 from team sport fede...