while different elements including social, economic and cultural elements play a vital role in the emergence of behavioral patterns in humans, one cannot ignore the influence of the physical and spatial characteristics of built environment as a back ground for occurrence of anomic behavior on committing crimes. therefore, a series of approaches and theories such as “crime prevention through env...

As a culture-based phenomenon which involves both linguistic and social aspects, translation has been investigated from various perspectives. The present Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)-based study is an attempt to probe into the manipulation of ideologies in translations of political texts. A CDA approach, based on Fairclough (1989), Van Dijk (2004) and Farahzad (2007), was adopted to conduc...

In this two-stage empirical research, the authors attempted to study the impact of promoting translation sub-competences defined by PACTE's Multi-Componential Model for Translation Competence on the promotion of total translation competence as the first stage. The experiment for this purpose was conducted on a group of Iranian undergraduate students comprising of their exposure to a targeted sy...

there are many evident that people are more interested in walking in attractive urban spaces and inappropriate physical and psychological condition can reduce their presence in a remarkable amount. the current research investigates the influence of physical design and psychological elements and their criteria on selective physical activity and specifically walking in urban public spaces. howeve...

There are many evident that people are more interested in walking in attractive urban spaces and inappropriate physical and psychological condition can reduce their presence in a remarkable amount. The current research investigates the influence of physical design and psychological elements and their criteria on selective physical activity and specifically walking in urban public spaces. Howeve...

as a culture-based phenomenon which involves both linguistic and social aspects, translation has beeninvestigated from various perspectives. the present critical discourse analysis (cda)-based study isan attempt to probe into the manipulation of ideologies in translations of political texts. a cda approach,based on fairclough (1989), van dijk (2004) and farahzad (2007), was adopted to conductth...