one important issue that any material or test designer should bear in mind is to be careful about developing teaching and testing reading materials which would not be to the benefit of a group of readers or examinees and to the detriment of some others. one of the factors which may cause difference between the performances of english learners or test takers is the selection of reading tests wit...

abstract introduction: adequate intake of fruits and vegetables (at least five servings a day) is recommended as a nutritional behavior of great importance in prevention of chronic diseases. this study aimed to compare the intake of fruits and vegetables in adult males and females of isfahan and to assess its association with personal and demographic factors, as well as seasons. methods: this c...

introduction. one of the proplems that both medical students and educational programmers are involved in is the importance of basic science materials in comprehention of clinical subjects and student's performance after that. our goal is to measure the correlation coefficient between the cbse and cpse and the predictive validity of cbse for cpie. methods. analytic cross-sectional study was...

in this study, some external morphometric characters viz. carapace width (cw) and length (cl), chelar propodus width (chw) and length (chl) and abdominal width (aw) and also body weight (bw) of the blue swimming crab, portunus pelagicus (linnaeus, 1758), were examined. relative growth and regression slope compared among these parameters between 151 males and 158 females. specimens were collecte...

trichuriasis is an intestinal parasitic disease which is caused by trichuris trichiura, a soil transmitted helminth. in order to evaluate the iron status of trichuriasis in patients a total of 120 (49 males and 71 females) cases with trichuris trichiura as well as 54 healthy individuals were evaluated. blood samples were analyzed for serum iron, transferrin saturation percent, haemoglobin and o...

This study was carried out to determine some biological characteristics including age, growth and somatic condition of Carasobarbus luteus and Capoeta trutta in the Turkish part of the Tigris River. The examined samples of C. luteus were distributed between II-IX years of age. The length-weigth relations of females and males were calculated as Log W =-4.7314 +3.0113 Log FL and Log W = -4.7631 +...