Introduction and purpose: Aging population is increasing and it is of great importance to predict factors that promote physical and mental health status of elderly. This study aimed to predict the perceived rejection based on early maladaptive Schema among active and inactive elderly. Methods & Materials: We used cluster sampling method to collect 150 elderly (included 75 active and 75 inact...

Objectives Among different people, especially the elderly who are undergoing their specific physical, emotional, and psychological conditions, quality of life is considered an issue that is of paramount importance. The present study aims to make a comparison between the quality of life in elderly women who lead an active life with those with a non-active one with special emphasis on physical ac...

this study was an attempt to investigate the effect of using c-test passages on the reading comprehension and incidental vocabulary learning of iranian intermediate efl learners. the participants were 60 male efl learners at kish mehr institute in garmsar. in fact, there were two groups, an experimental group and a comparison group with 30 students in each. the participants were pretested throu...

the following null hypothesis was proposed: h : there is no significant difference between the use of semantically or communicatively translates scientific texts. to test the null hypothesis, a number of procedures were taken first, two passages were selected form soyrcebooks of food and nutrition industry and gardening deciplines. each, in turn, was following by a number of comprehension quest...

‏‎the hypothesis is that recent and frequent exposure to lexical items leads to a more fluent production of speech in terms of rate of speech. to test the hypothesis,a one-way anova experimental design was carried out. 24 sednior students of efl participated in a one-way interview test. data analyses revealed that those who were exposed frequently to the lexical items over a week prior to inter...

Objective The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of unilateral and bilateral electrical stimulation of the brain on balance in elderly. Materials and methods: Thirty-six elderly in Ilam city participated in study. In the pre-test, static balance was taken and then the participants were randomly divided into three groups: unilateral brain stimulation, bilateral brain stimulatio...