The aim of the present study was to investigate the importance of skopos in the translation of political texts from English into Persian. To do this, 30 Iranian translators were conveniently selected and equally divided into the in-house and freelance translators. They were asked to translate a translation test encompassing 10 short political texts that were extracted from English news websites...

Fifteen Iranian wheat cultivars (Triticum aestivum L.) were compared for salt (NaCl & Na2SO4 in 1:1 ratio) tolerance using three treatments: 1.26 (control), 6.8 and 13.8 dSm in a green house. During vegetable growth, shoot Na, K, K: Na ratio and agronomic traits such as 1000-grain weight, grain yield, biological yield, number of tillers, number of fertile tillers, spike length, salinity suscept...

background: burnout syndrome is the most dangerous threatening factor of worker’s health working in health. the aim of this study was determined the relationship between burnout and performance of health house workers in east azerbaijan. method: this is a cross sectional study which have been done on 89 health house workers in east azerbaijan’s. data collection by jackson and mazlak’s standard ...

BACKGROUND The Iran-Iraq war during the 1980-1988 has left many consequences on veterans and their families that persist long after the war ended. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of psychological problems and marital adjustment of Iranian veterans on their children's quality of life and happiness 24 years after the war ended. PATIENTS AND METHODS The sample was a...

WASHINGTON President Reagan contributed to a m as­ sive deception of Congress and the public in the Iran-Contra af­ fair and bears responsibility for thw arting the law by allow­ ing zealots to seize policy con­ trol, congressional inves­ tigators concluded Wednesday. “ These committees found no direct evidence suggesting that the president was a knowing participant in the effort to deceive Con...

Iranian traditional architecture is one of the world's architectures par excellence. It was one of the most important architectures in the medieval Islamic world. Iranian architecture has developed over millennia in response to its religion. Many traditional and vernacular buildings in Iran show that the architects had been so clever in harmonizing the Iranian religion and architecture in the p...

Dear Editor Symbols are powerful images which, in one pictogram, contain a host of associated ideas or cultural myths. Today as a medical symbol, the rod of Asclepius with its entwined single serpent has been universally adopted, although this was originally a symbol representing Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine, from around the 6th century B.C.E. The Caduceus of the Roman god Mercury (the ...