this study attempted to explore if teaching english collocations through two different modes of awareness-raising and input flooding has any possible differential effect on immediate retention as well as retention in a delayed assessment. it also compared the possible differential effect of teaching english collocations implicitly and explicitly on actively using the items in writing. m...

Background and Aim: Administration of the therapy protocols can increase psychological well-being with resultant decrease in the work-family conflict. The purpose of this study was to make a comparison between the effects of group-based acceptance and commitment therapy and group-based reality therapy on work-family conflict and psychological well-being with maintenance effect among married fem...

among the low–dimensional allotropes of carbon, nanotubes and graphene have attracted very much attention from nano–science and nanotechnology specialists. they have been proposed as building blocks in nanometer device engineering. however, these structures are not defect–free. in this thesis, we focused on defective carbon nanotubes and graphene, and studied the effect of couple of very common...

two groups of students were assigned as experimental and control ones, and were given instruction on directed reading-thinking activities and after some treatment, they were post-tested. although the initial pre-test did not show any significant differences, the final post-test result revealed that the cooperative reading comprehension helped the experimental group. the cooperative students’...

Introduction: Patients with multiple sclerosis(MS) experience many physical and emotional disorders. Therefore, this study aimed the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy on emotional dysregulation in multiple sclerosis patients. Methods: The research method in present study was based on the practical aim, the experiment of type the single-subject with ABA design. The statistical ...

Introduction: Quality of life and aggression are variables that are important for adolescents with behavioral problems. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of family mode deactivation treatment, cognitive-behavior therapy, and acceptance-commitment therapy on quality of life of mothers and aggression of female adolescent with behavioral problems. Methods: The research metho...

this research concentrates on the lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy, microfacies and sedimentary environment of the asmari and gachsaran formations at southwest firuzabad. the thickness of the studied section in all 608.95 meters that 220.8 meters belong to the asmari formation and 387.95 meters belong to the gachsaran formation (champe and mol members). in the study area, the asmari formation...

Background & Aims: The aim of this study was to determine the efficacy of treatment based on acceptance and commitment to increase the quality of life in patients with breast cancer. Materials & Methods: For this purpose, in a quasi-experimental study, 30 women with breast cancer in Omid Hospital, Urmia Iran were randomly selected and divided into two groups (n = 15) and control (n= 15)...

Introduction: University students have a lot of problems in the field of adjustment especially social and health adjustment. Therefore, present research aimed to investigate the effectiveness of group therapy based on acceptance and commitment on social and emotional adjustment of nursing students. Methods: This research was carried out as a semi-experimental, with a pre-test and post-test des...

this thesis is a study on insurance fraud in iran automobile insurance industry and explores the usage of expert linkage between un-supervised clustering and analytical hierarchy process(ahp), and renders the findings from applying these algorithms for automobile insurance claim fraud detection. the expert linkage determination objective function plan provides us with a way to determine whi...