with the increasing population and the need for more food, as well as with the development of science and technology, human approach to unnatural and often chemical inputs to increase agricultural production has been a great expansion and problems such as increased cancers, chronic diseases has created environmental pollution. implementation of organic organic is a solution to these problems . ...

abstract this study investigates the teachers’ correction of students’ spoken errors of linguistic forms in efl classes, aiming at (a) examining the relationship between the learners’ proficiency level and the provision of corrective feedback types, (b) exploring the extent to which teachers’ use of different corrective feedback types is related to the immediate types of context in which err...

Background : There is contradictory evidence regarding the effects of calcium intake on the weight and body fat percentage. The objective of the present study was to investigate the relationship between calcium intake and anthropometric indices among adults. Methods and Materials: The present cross-sectional study was conducted on 94 employees of the Lorestan university of medical scienc...

Background: The aim of this study was to investigate effects of a 12-week aerobic and resistance exercise on body composition of adolescents with Down syndrome.  Method: A Semi-empirical perusal with 41 adolescents with Down syndrome, aged 15.5±2.7 years, divided into three groups: Aerobic Training Group (ATG n=16), Resisted Training Group (RTG n=15) and Control Group (CG n=10). ...

abstract this study is carried out to determine the chemical composition in the three vegetative stages of the haloxylon sp., degradation parameters, with adding naoh and ca(oh2 ). for this purpose, in may and october and january 2010 enough some haloxylon sp. of the ammary area was prepared. crude protein and ash percentage are decrease, neutral detergent fiber percentage with pragress stage ...

Background: A unique subset of Individuals with normal body mass index (BMI= 18.5-24.9 kg/m2) and high body fat percentage (above 30% in women and 23% in men) that are termed as normal weight obese, are at increased risk for development of the metabolic syndrome and chronic diseases because the adipose mass and the excess of fat mass are an important source of proinflammatory cytokines. The aim...

the present study sought to investigate the impact of using mind-mapping technique instruction on female elementary efl learners reading comprehension; it also investigated their attitudes towards using mind-mapping technique as a tool to improve their reading comprehension. this study followed a quasi-experimental design with two intact groups as experimental, and control groups. the participa...

Objectives This research aimed to investigate the impact of Pilates exercise on motor performance indexes and low back pain of inactive middle-aged women.  Methods & Materials This was a quasi-experimental study with pretest and posttest design performed on 43 inactive females with mean (SD) age of 44.4 (5.1) year with low activity, body fat percentage above 35%, and Waist Hip Ratio (WHR)...

for several years, researchers in familiarity of efl teachers with post-method and its role in second and foreign language learners’ productions have pointed out that the opportunity to plan for a task generally develops language learners’ development (ellis, 2005). it is important to mention that the critical varies in language teaching was shown is the disappearances of the concept of method ...

a large number of single research studies on the effects of strategy-based instruction (sbi) in teaching english as a foreign or second language has been conducted so far. however, the lack of a comprehensive meta-analysis targeting the effectiveness of english language sbi is observed. moreover, the findings of experimental studies regarding the context of the english language, proficiency lev...