the main aim of this study was identifying effects of post modernism paradigm and to criticize of its functions in the field of curriculum and its epistemological domains. to get this purpose, it was used an analytical-inferential method. after inquiring in viewpoints of advocate and critic thinkers of this intellectual stream, the results were demonstrated that although this paradigm has insuf...

since the evolution of public administration as an academic and scientific discipline, different competitive approaches have come forward in this area. public administration as a profession, a scientific field and a political process; or, public administration as an area totally distinguished from business management; and legal, political and administrative approaches towards public administrat...

extended abstract 1. introduction the present study aims to investigate the potentials of two significant translation paradigms in children’s literature: 1) skopos paradigm; and 2) equivalence paradigm. the former seeks equivalence in the source text while the latter seeks it in the target text. to this end, three translations of “the little prince” by mohammad ghazi, ahmad shamlou, and abolhas...

the place of a topic like ‘procedures for developing religiosity’, as a novel and innovative topic, seems to have been standing empty beside topic like ‘origins of religiosity’, and ‘the origin of religion’. the present article, after describing the content, use, and requirements of the topic under investigation, deals with introducing and categorizing paradigms of religiosity. in order to come...

A paradigm shift, suggested by Thomas Kuhn [1], is not just a small change in science, or the modification of a theory. It is a scientific revolution and completely changes the way in which science looks at the world. It often dictates how the public looks at the world. For example, Darwin's theories [2] were intensely debated by scientists and theologians. This debate spilled over into the pub...

T he evolution of organisms has been both constrained and facilitated by many internal and external mechanical limitations. Mechanical sensing systems used by primitive cells to ensure survival have been retained, often in modified form, in multicellular animals and in the tissues and organ systems of mammals to form specialized sensors that monitor both the internal state of the organism as we...