Background & Aims: The Borderline Personality Feature Scale for Children (BPFS-C) developed to assess borderline personality features in children aged 9 years and older. This scale was adopted from the borderline scale of PAI and assessed affective instability, identity problems, negative relationships, and self-harm dimensions. The aim of this study was to investigate the validity of this s...

nitric oxide (no) is a small molecule synthesized by most of mammalian cells with diverse biological activities including vasodilatation, host defense and wound healing. impaired wound healing is a common occurrence among diabetics and patients receiving glucocorticoid therapy. on the other hand the application of laser in biomedical area have been increased. thus, the current studies were desi...

abstract: about 60% of total premium of insurance industry is pertained?to life policies in the world; while the life insurance total premium in iran is less than 6% of total premium in insurance industry in 2008 (sigma, no 3/2009). among the reasons that discourage the life insurance industry is the problem of adverse selection. adverse selection theory describes a situation where the inf...

Introduction: Curriculum plays a central role in effective teaching and educational change in higher education. The present study was conducted to design and validate a tool for assessing the curriculum quality of universities in Iran. Methods: This study was performed using a mixed method of explorative plan-tool development model. First, in qualitative part of this study, questionnaire consis...

chapter one is devotod to collect some notion and background informations, which are needed in the next chapters. it also contains some important statements which will be proved in a more general context later in this thesis. in chapter two, we show that if the marginal factor-group is of order np1...pk,n>1, then we obtain a bound for the order of the verbal subgroup. also a bound for the bear-...

just as motivation is important in sla research, demotivation constitutes an important factor, too. there are many studies done on demotivation and burnout of teachers. many of these studies have been conducted on one or two aspects of english instruction. consequently, there are few studies which have been done on more than two aspects of english teaching. the aim of this study is to find out ...

Aim: Conflict of mothers and daughters-in-law is a common issue, especially in Asian countries characterized by a collectivistic culture and a patrilineal society. The main purpose of this research was the development and validation of quality of mother and daughter-in-law’s relationship scale, including construct validity, convergent validity and internal consistency. Methods: This was a corre...

a novel ultra wideband microstrip bandpass filter using radial stub loaded resonator and interdigital coupled lines is presented in this paper. the radial stub loaded resonator and decagonal patch form a resonator named m to create tuneable multiple notches in the passband for suppression wlan interference. to realize sharp roll-off, two adjustable transmission nulls are located at the lower an...

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate factorial structure (construct validity) and reliability of the Persian version of the Revised Shyness Scale among university students. Method: 182 students were randomly selected from five schools of Chamran University using stratified sampling, and completed the Persian version of the Revised Cheek Briggs Shyness Scale (PRSS) and Rosenb...