The concept of teacher efficacy has received significant attention in educational contexts in the recent years and has been empirically probed at 2 levels: individual teacher efficacy and collective teacher efficacy. Having their origins in the social cognitive theory, teacher and collective efficacy perceptions are quite distinct constructs, each affecting educational decisions and student ach...

The present article reports a study carried out to investigate whether or not awareness of functional translation theories has any impact on the translation quality of translator trainees. 2oo Iranian undergraduate students took part in this study. They were divided into four groups -two- experimental and two control groups. After homogenizing the participants by a TOEFL test, a translation pre...

translation historiography is a research area that has attracted the attention of translation scholars in recent years. as a significant research area of translation historiography, exploring the national history of translation criticism can contribute to the delineation of how translation theory and practice correlate in a specific culture. moreover, it can indicate the extent of development o...

In 2012, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) engaged the scientific community to provide a vision for cancer epidemiology in the 21st century. Eight overarching thematic recommendations, with proposed corresponding actions for consideration by funding agencies, professional societies, and the research community emerged from the collective intellectual discourse. The themes are (i) extending the...

Public dialogue about social mobility in many countries has recently been dominated by the myth of meritocracy and uses a neo-liberal vocabulary aspiration, ambition, choice, considering as an individual project self-advancement involving moving up hierarchy (Lawler & Payne, 2018; Friedman Laurison, 2020). Meritocracy suggests that whatever your position at birth, society ought to offer eno...

the concept of teacher efficacy has received significant attention in educational contexts in the recent years and has been empirically probed at 2 levels: individual teacher efficacy and collective teacher efficacy. having their origins in the social cognitive theory, teacher and collective efficacy perceptions are quite distinct constructs, each affecting educational decisions and student ach...

having sufficient and accurate understanding about kinetics of phenomena, could be an important reason for further technological progresses. finding a white-box mathematical model for weight vs. time curves of electrophoretic deposition (epd) using large and small signal analysis has been studied thoroughly in the present investigation. weight-time curves of nano-mullite suspension have been tr...