the present study was carried on to investigate the use of face-keeping strategies in reaction to complaints by male and female in two different cultures, persian and american english. to see if apology strategies are affected by cultural, contextual preferences and gender of interlocutors in two distinct languages of persian and american english. the hypotheses to be tested were 1) ifids, acce...

abstract lexical knowledge of complex english words is an important part of language skills and crucial for fluent language use (nation, 2001). the present study, thus, was an attempt to assess the role of morphological decomposition awareness as a vocabulary learning strategy on learners’ productive and receptive recall and recognition of complex english words. so 90 sophomores (female and ma...

this study investigated how group formation method, namely student-selected vs. teacher-assigned, influences the results of the community model of teaching creative writing; i.e., group dynamics and group outcome (the quality of performance). the study adopted an experimental comparison group and microgenetic research design to observe the change process over a relatively short period of time. ...

abstract poor reading comprehension can result in failure in using references, benefiting from professional gatherings and resources, keeping up with the growing body of knowledge in the virtual world of the internet, and failing to achieve in efl programs. the purpose of the present quasi-experimental study was to explore the effects of background knowledge and previewing narrative and expos...

تولید بیوگاز از فضولات دامی یکی از روشهای مهم تولید انرژی از منابع تجدید پذیر است و یکی از روش های کاهش تولید گازهای گلخانه ای و حفاظت از محیط زیست محسوب می شود. در این تحقیق اثرات دما، ph، cod و نوع بیومس در طی 18 روز در یک هاضم بی هوازی با ساختمان ساده و بدون همزن بر روی بیوگاز تولیدی بررسی گردید. مطالعه آزمایشگاهی اثر دما بر میزان بیوگاز تولیدی از فضولات گاوی در 7=ph و 3/14ts= اولیه ثابت در ...

Secretion of pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines play a critical role in the regulation of metabolic conditions. This study examines the effect of eight weeks aerobic training on Adipolin cytokine and insulin resistance index in type 2 diabetic male rats. Eighteen 8-10 weeks Wister rats with 200-220 gr are selected and they divided equaly into two diabetes [DBT] and control [CON] g...