the main purpose of this paper has been to predict english students’ academic achievement on the basis of achievement goals, motivational –usefulness beliefs and the kind of mobile usages. the population of the study consisted of english language students in the faculty of foreign language at isfahan university from both undergraduate and graduate levels in 2011-2012. by applying a random sampl...

Dishonesty in academic settings is a reckless behavior that is unique to students and is associated with cheat    ing and plagiarism of academic tasks. Incidents involving dishonesty in higher education have increased considerably in the past decade, with regard to the extent of these practices, the types of dishonesty employed, and their prevalence. The current study examines the profile of "a...

by relying mainly on the accessibility approach to anaphora, this article intends to analyze the types, distributions and retrieval of anaphors in two forms of spoken discourse: casual and controlled talk. for the specific purposes of the study, twenty sophomore iranian students were randomly selected to conduct the talks. the subjects were divided into two groups of casual and controlled talk....

OBJECTIVES To compare the evaluation and management of pediatric cutaneous abscess patients at three different emergency department (ED) settings. METHOD We conducted a retrospective cohort study at two academic pediatric hospital EDs, a general academic ED and a community ED in 2007, with random sampling of 100 patients at the three academic EDs and inclusion of 92 patients from the communit...

background: considering the negative consequences of using physical restraints, we conducted this study to identify patients who are more frequently restrained in a psychiatric emergency ward as an initial step to limit the use of restraint to the minimum possible. methods: this was a retrospective case control study conducted in iran psychiatric hospital in tehran, iran. we reviewed the files ...