This study aimed at investigating the effects of English as foreign language proficiency onlexical attrition of Iranian learners in Nouroz holidays. For this purpose, 90 students studiedEnglish translation at Qazvin Azad University were selected. They were sophomore and wereaccessible for the present study. After administering a proficiency test (OPT), 60 students wereselected according to the ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the knowledge, attitude and practices of relief workers posted in rescue and relief bases of the Red Crescent Society of Mazandaran province of Iran during Nouroz holidays. METHODS Two hundred and nineteen relief workers were selected as the study sample from thirteen Norouz rescue and relief bases of Red Crescent Society in Mazandaran province, which has 13 cities, for th...

Farhat Ali Khan and Shabana Irum Department of Botany, Hazara University Mansehra, Pakistan Shazia Erum and Aish Muhammad Plant Genetic Resource Institute, National Agricultural Research Centre, Islamabad, Pakistan Faisal Nouroz Department of Botany, Hazara University Mansehra, Pakistan and Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Department of Biology, University of Leicester, UK Saima Kanwal Food Scien...

Using data from a nationally representative survey conducted in 1998-1999, this paper examines the expenditure of Australian households on domestic and overseas holidays. During 1998-1999, 37% of the estimated 7.12 million Australian households took holidays, of these 55% within Australia, 33% went overseas and 12% took both types of holidays. The size of the domestic and overseas holiday marke...

Background: Every year, eating, exercise, work, and travel patterns change during the holidays and these behavioral changes at a larger scale may cause death due to cardiovascular disease (CVD). Considering the importance of CVD, the present study was conducted for the first time in Iran to determine the differences in the ratio of deaths due to CVD on holidays and working days. Materials an...