two groups of students were assigned as experimental and control ones, and were given instruction on directed reading-thinking activities and after some treatment, they were post-tested. although the initial pre-test did not show any significant differences, the final post-test result revealed that the cooperative reading comprehension helped the experimental group. the cooperative students’...

the present paper deals with criminal issues. for example, legal injunction on the necessity of returning a deposit has a legal nature and legal injunction on the punishment of those who breach the trust has a criminal nature. existing social issues are the basis of classification of some instances into the issue, some of which are based on variation and others on quality. therefore, the motiva...

the primary goal of the current project was to examine the effect of three different treatments, namely, models with explicit instruction, models with implicit instruction, and models alone on differences between the three groups of subjects in the use of the elements of argument structures in terms of toulmins (2003) model (i.e., claim, data, counterargument claim, counterargument data, rebutt...

the purpose of this study was to find the relationship between critical thinking and self-regulation with reading comprehension of iranian female elementary language learners. the present study is a correlational one having a descriptive design. two questionnaires, critical thinking questionnaire and self-regulation questionnaire which were valid and reliable questionnaires and four reading com...

one of the applications of nanotechnology is use of carbon nanotubes for the targeted delivery of drug molecules. to demonstrate the physical and chemical properties of biomolecules and identify new material of drug properties, the interaction of carbon nanotubes (cnts) with biomolecules is a subject of many investigations. cnts is a synthetic compound with extraordinary mechanical, thermal, el...

at the beginning of his magnum opus al-hekmat al-muta’aleiat fi al-asfar al-aqliiat, mulla sadra says that he has nominated and arranged his book according to “the four journeys” of the mystics. what he and the mystics say on these journeys reminds those familiar with greek philosophy of plato’s phaedrus and republic (journey of souls onto sky and the allegory of cave, respectively). in spite o...

The most famous works of those of far past time in the field of mutashabihat are the book Mutashabihat ul-Quran" by Abd al-Jabbar and " Mutashabihat ul-Quran wa Mukhtalafuh" by Ibn Shahr Ashub Mazandarani. Their definitions of muhkam and mutashabih are common and based on the need to understand the purpose of mutashaih verses, with the help of other arguments and reference to muhkamat. In the i...