within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...

Introduction: Violence against women is more observed in families with some unique structures and conditions. This study aimed at exploring the impact of social capital and its components on violence against women with reference to the nature of family relationships.   Materials & Methods: This descriptive-correlative study was conducted on all married females with the age range of 15-50 years...

The present paper deals with the analysis and analysis of spatial justice and its relation with social capital using descriptive-analytical research method. To assess spatial justice, the distribution of urban facilities and their per capita amount (per capita of religious, educational, medical, green, cultural, etc.) are used at local level. Then, they have been ranked by the multi-criteria de...

Background: Social capital, as one the social determinant of health has an effective impact on decreasing mortality in a community. This study was conducted with the aim of determining the relationship between quality of life and social capital among health workers in medical and health network of Rey city. Methods: This study was a cross sectional design conducted in 2012.Sample size was 140 ...

Abstract Introduction: According to the psychological theories, the priority of adolescence is the acquisition of identity, which is influenced by physical, psychological, socio-cultural and spiritual factors of this period. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the role of agentic personality, social capital, moral intelligence and psychological capital in identity prediction. m...

one of the most important goals for increasing recognition and treatment revenue is transmitting vital data to medical care team, more quickly. nowadays, use of new technologies for transmitting data will deploy more and more daily. in this article, for transmitting electrocardiogram, first we code the signal into a suite of codes, then we will use bluetooth technology to transmit data from off...

Introduction: Ethical behavior is an important issue for all organizations, especially universities and higher education institutions that can be influenced by various factors including intellectual capital and social responsibility. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between intellectual capital and social responsibility and ethical behavior among faculty members. Method...

methodology non-native participants in this study were sixty ba students majoring in english literature and teaching english as a foreign language at khayyam university of mashhad. they were senior students, between 21 to 24 years old, who had studied english for at least three and a half years and had passed several courses including grammar, reading, conversation, and writing. this was assum...