in this study, partial and complete replacement of live food ( artemia nauplii) with a microdiet was investigated in post-larval indian white shrimp, fenneropenaeus indicus . post-larvae (pl 1 ) were stocked into nine 20-l vessels (5-l water volume) at a density of 50 l -1 . shrimp were fed six times a day over 10 days. at the end of the feeding period, there was no significant difference in qu...

the purpose of the study was to activate the passive lexical knowledge through noticing and to investigate the effect of sentence writing as the post task of noticing activity on strengthening the effect of noticing. forty-two iranian female adult upper-intermediate english students of a state university in 2 homogenous groups participated in noticing the lexical items whose production were not...

the present paper studies the objectives and functions of constructing the new towns before and after the revolution in iran. before the revolution, new towns were established based on political – bureaucratic objectives, for the operation of huge oil resources and affiliated industries, to accommodate the workforce in industrial complexes, to implement the policy of regional decentralization...

despite possessing the adequate purchase potential for the fast moving consumer goods (fmcgs), the poor are not reckoned as a viable market by the fmcg marketers and as a result, the purchase preferences of poor are largely unexplored for the concerned products. the present paper bridges the gap subsisting in the pertinent literature by exploring the purchase behavior of poor consumers in the r...

conclusions the clinical success rates of endodontically treated premolars restored with fiber posts and direct composite restorations, direct composite restorations with cusp capping and simple direct composite restoration were perfect after one year of follow-up evaluation. background endodontically treated teeth need to be restored in a manner to provide protection for the remaining tooth st...

we present new whole major and trace elements data for a suite of adakitic dacite to rhyolite rocks from the sahand region. these rocks formed in the pliocene to pleistocene during the the collision between the arabian and eurasian plates following subduction of neo–tethys ocean. these subvolcanic intrusions were emplaced into late cretaceous and eocene sedimentary، volcano–clastic and volcanic...

there are no known studies that have been conducted focusing on the congruency or discrepancy of pre service agricultural education programmes in relation to secondary school agriculture teaching in zimbabwe. the purpose of this study was therefore to make a qualitative investigation on the contribution of pre service agricultural education training programmes to the teaching of high school agr...

results analysis showed that there were no significant differences between the groups at baseline (p < 0.05). comparison of the results between the two groups before the two-step test showed that anger and vitality scales between the two groups have no significant differences, but on the other scales (depression, dizziness, fatigue and tension), differences between pre and post-test groups were...

assessing learners' needs is an integral part of any curriculum and course design , namely english for specific purposes (esp), syllabus design, materials development, teaching methods and testing issues. critical approach to needs analysis, which is a relatively recent approach, acknowledges the rights of different stakeholders including teachers, students and administrators in the process of ...