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...

The problem of Destiny and Predestination and, following it, determinism because of its complicated nature has always been misused in different ways. As is understood by Amavid texts including letters and speeches clearly, determinism has been a common idea in their age. The paper deals with the problem with regard to the part by Amavid rulers and considers some Amavid caliphates` speeches in i...

armenias geopolitics and its historical experience have had a determining impact on the character of its foreign policy .present-day armenia is a small, landlocked country with _11,620 square miles area armenias landlocked nature makes it dependent on the benevolence of its neighbors for access to the outside world a fact that gives it a sense of isolation and vulnerability. as it was indic...

1.0 overview it seems that grammar plays a crucial role in the area of second and foreign language learning and widely has been acknowledged in grammar research. in other words, teaching grammar is an issue which has attracted much attention to itself, and a lot of teachers argue about the existence of grammar in language teaching and learning. this issue will remind us a famous sentence f...

1.1 introduction “i see translation as the attempt to produce a text so transparent that it does not seem to be translated. a good translation is like a pane of glass. you only notice that it’s there when there are little imperfections- scratches, bubbles. ideally, there shouldn’t be any. it should never call attention to itself.” “norman shapiro” (venuti, 1995:1) edward fitzgerald is the br...

in the first part of this thesis we explored wetting and its dynamics for small droplets. first, we showed how a simple feature of water droplets on a surface, i.e. laplace pressure, can be exploited to build a micropump. we investigated capillary pumping in microchannels both experimentally and numerically. putting two droplets of different sizes at the in/outlet of a microchannel, will ge...

در این تحقیق، نمونه های بتن معمولی با میلگرد روکشدار، 40 و 60 میکرون روی، اپوکسی و بدون پوشش ساخته و در شرایط استاندارد و تسریع شده و همچنین شرایط محیط دریای عمان (تر و خشک ، مستغرق و ساحل) به مدت 14 ماه عمل آوری شده است. بر روی 92 نمونه ساخته شده، آزمایش مقاومت فشاری بر اساس استاندارد bs 1881 part 116، مقاومت الکتریکی، جذب آب بر اساس استاندارد bs 1881 part 122 ، آزمایش نفوذ پذیری تحت فشار آب ب...