Introduction: The goal of professional development centers is to enhance the skills and knowledge of faculty members. Therefore, the professional development center offers a range of services. Purpose of this article was to study activities of the professional development center in the top world's universities. Methods: The Brady model used in   this comparative study. Fifteen world top univers...

Present study was designed to investigate the effects of three teaching- learning approaches including discovery, interactive and transmission approaches on the students learning performance in biology lesson. In this quasi- experimental research three experimental groups (N1=60, N2=71, N3=63) were used in order to identify any significant difference between the students learning performance wh...

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...

nowadays enhancing critical thinking in learners is considered one of the foreign language teachers’ tasks due to its high position in foreign language classrooms. when it comes to selecting materials for language classrooms, there are obviously some criteria that teachers should apply. the present study aimed at a critical thinking based analysis of ten picture story books and ten folktales th...

abstract tasks nowadays are at the center of attention in sla research. task types is one of the critical issues in this regard, their effectiveness and suitability to any particular context, their characteristics and the result they yield are among some of these issues. on the other hand, discourse markers (dms) have been very much investigated and their effectiveness in conveying the meaning...

The Prophet (s) said: when the believer acts an action, he / she strengthens it. Moral teaching management in organization accentuates teaching productivity. Productivity, beingconceptually in close connection to trustworthiness in prophessional ethics, is reciprocally connected to ethical teaching. Those scholars of education concerned with ethical teaching, survey this kind of teaching. In t...

simplification universal as a universal feature of translation means translated texts tend to use simpler language than original texts in the same language and it can be critically investigated through common concepts: type/token ratio, lexical density, and mean sentence length. although steps have been taken to test this hypothesis in various text types in different linguistic communities, in ...