until now many studies have been done over recent decades throughout the world to show the right age to start english. in iran, research is still at an early stage in terms of evaluating teachers’ beliefs about teaching children english. the problem of at what age to start teaching english and how to teach english to elementary school children has not been solved neither in this country nor els...

Background & Objectives:  Craving is a major barrier to the effective treatment of substance  addiction. This study conducted in order to Modelling structural relations of craving based on sensitivity to reinforcement, distress tolerance and self-compassion with the mediating role of self-efficacy for quitting. Materials and Methods: The method of this study was descriptive-correlational. The...

This article determines influence of education of emotional intelligence components on mental health improvement and self-imagination of Arak Payam Nour University’s athlete girl students. This is survey (analytic-descriptive) research which is quasi-empirical one. It was conducted in form of pre- and post-test with control group. 24 students were catego-rized in two 12-person experimental an...

deployable scissor type structures are composed of the so-called scissor-like elements (sles), which are connected to each other at an intermediate point through a pivotal connection and allow them to be folded into a compact bundle for storage or transport. several sles are connected to each other in order to form units with regular polygonal plan views. the sides and radii of the polygons are...

 The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence components (including problem solving, happiness, independence, stress tolerance, self actualization, emotional self–awareness, reality testing, interpersonal relationship, optimism, self–regard, impulse control, flexibility,social responsibility, empathy and assertiveness) with performance self–eva...

the present study aimed at exploring cognitions of iranian english teachers within the context of english for academic purposes (eap). to this end, the cognitions of two groups of eap teachers with respect to their pedagogical content knowledge (pck) and their sense of professional identity (pi) were probed. two language teachers and two content instructors who had at least five years of eap te...