the purpose of this study was to examine the comparative effect of story retelling and role playing on efl learners’ vocabulary learning and reading comprehension. to carry out the purpose of the study 90 female learners of tabarestan language school located in noshahr were non-randomly selected. they took pet test and among these 90 participants 62 students were selected as homogenous learners...

  Introduction : Oxidative stress is considered as one of the factors that can damage tissues . The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of short term dark chocolate supplementation pre-incremental exercise on vascular lipid peroxidation in active young girls.   Methods : This is a semi-experimental study. 16 active girls in two groups of experimental (dark chocolate supplementation)...

the present study was conducted to investigate the effect of implicit focus on form through input flooding and the effect of noticing, explicit focus on form on linguistic accuracy. to fulfill the purpose of the study, 86 iranian pre-intermediate efl learners of one of the language institutes were chosen by means of administering ket as the homogeneity test. these learners were pretested throug...

target tracking is the tracking of an object in an image sequence. target tracking in image sequence consists of two different parts: 1- moving target detection 2- tracking of moving target. in some of the tracking algorithms these two parts are combined as a single algorithm. the main goal in this thesis is to provide a new framework for effective tracking of different kinds of moving target...

 Background: Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common disease of the synovial joints, especially in professional athletes. Endurance training causes OA in joints, particularly their knee joint. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of volume and intensity of two different types of endurance training on the incidence of knee OA in healthy male rats. Methods: In this ex...

Background and Objective: Silybum marianum has antioxidant, stabilizes cell membranes and regulate cell permeability properties. The aim of this study was to determining the effect of short-term silymarin supplementation on some of antioxidant (GPx and SOD) and oxidative stress (MDA) indices response in serum active men after one-session exhaustive aerobic exercise. Materials and Methods...

flow in natural river bends is a complex and turbulent phenomenon which affects the scour and sedimentations and causes an irregular bed topography on the bed. for the reason, the flow hydralics and the parameters which affect the flow to be studied and understand. in this study the effect of bed and wall roughness using the software fluent discussed in a sharp 90-degree flume bend with 40.3cm ...

learning-oriented assessment seeks to emphasise that a fundamental purpose of assessment should be to promote learning. it mirrors formative assessment and assessment for learning processes. it can be defined as actions undertaken by teachers and / or students, which provide feedback for the improvement of teaching and learning. it also contrasts with equally important measurement-focused appro...

in the new age, in regard to human success in education in the globalizing world, one can consider english proficiency and individual differences as two important issues. in efl settings, reading skill plays an important role in education. it seems that using multiple intelligences theory in efl classes which values individual differences by tapping different intelligences, can be rewarding. as...