Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and its consequences may impact individuals’ mental health. Objectives: present study aimed to investigate the psychological status of individuals during COVID-19 outbreak in Iran following government’s social distancing plan. Methods: Data from 1,524 people were collected using a cross-sectional web-based survey via media. Demographi...

Background: During the past two years, a new health crisis that affected world was emergence of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Currently, most challenges and problems are mainly due to behavioral factors, so identifying these factors can play an important role in promoting public health. Therefore, this study designed conducted investigate Iranians’ attitude, practice, perceived sel...

This paper evaluates attitudes of Iranians toward crossing red traffic lights and their sensitivity to fines. Economic theory of crime under expected utility predicts that because of the possibility of severe punishments, risk adverse individuals would not cross red lights. This is implied by the Becker proposition. However, among 262 individuals surveyed, more than half of the sample has previ...

The present study on politeness is an attempt to examine (dis)agreeing strategies utilized by EFL learners while chatting on the internet. Subjects of the study were forty male and thirty-three female Iranian natives whose internet relay chat (IRC) interactions, composed of 400 excerpts, were collected between December 2007 and September 2008. Data analysis was based on the general taxonomy of ...

metadiscourse is a widely used term in current discourse analysis and language education, referring to an interesting, and relatively new approach to conceptualizing interaction between text producers and their texts and between text producers and users. despite the growing importance of the term, however, it is often understood in different ways and used to refer to different aspects of langua...

Iranians invented squinches to cover a square-plan space with dome. Filposh, type of squinch first found in Sasanian architecture, is conical vault constructed the transition zone’s corners transmit dome’s forces and weight. This technique can be seen three halls palace Ardeshir. In this paper, geometry zone using filposh between spherical dome square supporting walls Ardeshir Palace was re-exa...

A county grand jury will decide today whether to indict a Notre Dame student in con­ nection with the Dec. 6 accident that killed junior Michael Cogswell. The 21-year-old student has been subpoened to testify before the grand jury in St. Joseph County Superior Court, the county prosecutor’s office said. Notre Dame senior Douglas Meier said he also was sub­ poened to testify at the hearing, whic...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the oral health status of 35- to 44-year-old Iranians in relation to gender, place of residence and education. SUBJECTS AND METHODS In 2002, data (n = 8,301) were collected as part of a national survey using WHO criteria for sampling and clinical diagnoses across 28 provinces by 33 calibrated examiners who performed examinations under a dental light with a WHO probe. ...

Objectives: To determine the mean 24 hr urinary sodium (UNa) and chloride (UCl) excretion, and the association between these variables and blood pressure, since studies on the effect of habitual dietary salt intake and some electrolytes on blood pressure were reported different. Design: Experimental population-based study Setting: Urban areas, Isfahan city, Iran Subjects: Nine hundred and twelv...

Sacred values are different from secular values in that they are often associated with violations of the cost-benefit logic of rational choice models. Previous work on sacred values has been largely limited to religious or territorial conflicts deeply embedded in historical contexts. In this work we find that the Iranian nuclear program, a relatively recent development, is treated as sacred by ...