for any educational program to be successful, many factors work hand in hand. based on pervious efl studies, teachers and learners are the keys to gain achievement. granted the fact that explicit and implicit practice plays a key role in education, knowledge of it can help teachers facilitate students’ vocabulary learning. this study investigated to determine the contribution of explicit and i...

Background: Physical activity has been recognized as one of the non-pharmacological methods in the treatment of hypertensive disorders. This study aims to compare the effects of aerobic exercise performed and alternative (AI) and constant intensities (CI) in hypertensive individuals. Methods: In this semi-experimental study, subjects were 20 hypertensive women who were asked to fill in the q...

Background & objectives: Recently it has been shown that some adipose tissue-derived hormones, such as apelin and omentin, can be effective in regulating metabolic metabolism. So the aim of the current study was to examine the effect of 12-weeks Pilates’ body training on serum levels of apelin and omentin-1 in inactive and overweight women. Methods: This is a pre-test and post-test clinical tri...

abstract this study evaluated and compared medical terminology and english for the students of medicine (ii) as two representatives of the textbooks available on the iranian market for teaching english to the students of medicine. this research was performed on the basis of a teacher’s and a number of students’ attitudes and the students’ needs analysis for two reasons: first, to investigate...

this study explored reading strategy use of tefl ma students when they read academic research articles in english. the purpose of this study was to investigate how this group of readers typically approaches reading academic research articles related to their field of study, and also what they do in reading such research articles. the aim of the present study was bilateral. first, the researcher...

abstract compound is a word-formation process that are made two free morpheme (independent) and forms a new word with a new meaning that consists of meaning of both two component of compound. avestan language is one of the ancient iranian languages that is one of the indo-iranian languages. indo-iranian languages is one branch of indo-european languages. structure of compound noun and adjectiv...

Background& purpose: Today, among athletes, the use of amino acid supplements with the aim of reducing muscle injuries is more important than in the past. the aim of this study was to survey the effect of branched chain amino acids (BCAA) consumption before exhaustive exercise along with 1-month vitamin E supplementation on lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and creatine kinase (CK) levels of active f...