The present study aims to investigate the relationship of metacognitive skills in learning and academic goal orientation with self–regulated learning in female high school students of second grade in Ardakan city. This study was a correlational study that carried out in 210 female students who were selected by randomly cluster sampling between female high school students of second grade i...

Background: Industries like steel, along with wealth generation and economic development, create many environmental problems, such as air, water, and soil pollution and waste generation. Since environmental protection is considered one of the pillars of sustainable development, solutions should be adopted that minimize environmental hazards, and promote the existing industry towards sustainable...

Background and Objectives: Implementation of industrial development programs, without considering environmental considerations has caused continuous entrance of pollutants to air. Therefore, the purpose of this study was assessing the ecological risk of some heavy metals in the dust of a number of non-metallic industries and determining the best indices in pollution assessment of Ardakan area. ...

  Background : Puberty as a stage of life is an important developmental process. Teen girls have numerous health care needs and their specific issues should be considered. This study was conducted determine the effect of health belief model in adopting prevention and control of health behaviors during puberty among female high school students in Ardakan city.   Methods: This study is a randomiz...

Coastal and inland dune sands in desert environments are compositionally and texturally controlled by physical and chemical processes such as the wind action, marine/fluvial processes, weathering, air temperature and precipitation. The objectives of this research are study of sedimentological characteristics, calculation of CIA in the Aeolian sediments and classification of sand dunes in the Ya...

Background: Exclusively breast-fed up to six months is the best status for children providing them with physical, physiological and mental needs and causes decreasing some infections among them. This is less addressed in research up to now. The study thus aimed to determine prevalence of exclusive breast feeding up to six months and some of its related factors in Ardakan. Methods: In a descr...

the Siahkuh playa is one of the greatest deserts in Yu.d province and is located in the north-north eastern of Ardakan city. In playa regions, different sub-environments with different mineral potentials can be recognized. In Siahkuh playa, various evaporite minerals such as gypsum in different form (sugery, nodular and euhedral crystals), halite (fibrous, cylindrical, hopper-shaped crysta...