this study investigates the relationship between field-related cognitive styles and global reading comprehension of hypertext. technically, field dependency is prevailing dominance of field on perception of parts, while global comprehension is skim-like reading to grasp the general content. in this research project, 60 senior and junior students of arak university majoring in english literature...

in his last years of life americans had almost forgotton steinbeck, and those who had not, occasionally criticized him for supporting and praising the u. s. military intervention in the vietnam war. althought ateinbeck incorporates different themes into his works, each one bears many signs of his concern and sympathy for america and the american common people in particular. steinbecks to a god ...

according to cheng (1999), in recent esl/efl literature, asian (especially east asian) learners of english as a foreign/second language have been arguably reported as reticent and passive learners. the most common allegations are that these students are reluctant to participate in classroom discourse; they are unwilling to give responses; they do not ask questions; and they are passive and over...

Imām Khomeyni like many other mystics demonstrates that the existence of the Last Prophet (Mohammad) as the first theophany in the world of pluralities has both genitive and substitutive supremacy over the whole cosmos and finally is the key and the foundation of all cosmos. Thus he (the Prophet, i.e. his Idea) has the Manifesto-Final aspect of the Qur’an, either for its heavenly, Unmanifistate...

Having a review approach, it has been attempted to recognize and reconstruct ethical ideas of Abdollah Ibn Maschr('39')ud, one of the distinguished scholars of the prophetchr('39')s companions. He is a scholar belonging to the age before development of Islamic civilization and like many of his contemporaries he has been remained unknown and his effect on evolution of ethical thought in Islam Wo...

in the first part of this thesis we explored wetting and its dynamics for small droplets. first, we showed how a simple feature of water droplets on a surface, i.e. laplace pressure, can be exploited to build a micropump. we investigated capillary pumping in microchannels both experimentally and numerically. putting two droplets of different sizes at the in/outlet of a microchannel, will ge...