introduction: one of the main determinants of adolescents’ life satisfaction is parenting skills. due to the lack of educational trials in this field, this research was done to evaluate the effect of a parenting education program on girls’ life satisfaction in governmental guidance schools of shiraz city. methods: this study is aneducational randomized controlled trial. at first, 152 female stu...

the effects of postharvest application of cobalt chloride were investigated on vase life of rose stood individually in vials and the other ones placing daffodil flowers in a vase with a rose flower.  therefore, roses were treated with: cocl 2 (100, 200, 300 mg l -1 , respectively) or distilled water (control). the results showed that the decreased vase life of rose flowers, after daffodil was p...

in this article, it has been tried to analyze the mental satisfaction of the quality of life in different regions in terms of objective development. for this purpose, districts no. 3, 6, and 9 of mashhad city which through the measures of education, income, and employment were respectively among the deprived, the average, and the privileged regions were selected as the case study areas. moreove...

A new human life comes into being not when there is mere cellular life in a human embryo, but when the newly developing body organs and systems begin to function as a whole, the author argues. This is symmetrical with the dealth of an existing human life, which occurs when its organs and systems have permanently ceased to function as a whole. Thus a new human life cannot begin until the develop...

How people become unique persons is an ever-renewed puzzle for any observer of human life. Somehow, in the complex sets of social and cultural constraints that reduce margins of freedom, each person is actually the author of his or her life. Each trajectory is unique, and can be recognized by its specific melody (Zittoun et al., 2013). This uniqueness, we propose, can be seen as resulting from ...

Artificial Life is the study of all phenomena of the living world through their reproduction in artificial systems. We argue that Artificial Life models of evolution and development offer a new set of theoretical and methodological tools for investigating Piaget's ideas. The concept of an Artificial Life Neural Network (ALNN) is first introduced, and contrasted with the study of other recent ap...

purpose: to evaluate the health-related quality of life (hrqol) among strabismus patient. methods: one hundred and twenty-two strabismic patients ≥ 14 years who scheduled for surgery were selected non-randomly. the patients completed the adult strabismus 20 (as-20) and sf 36 questionnaires. measurements were performed preoperatively and 3 and 6 months postoperatively. changes in psychosocial an...