This study tries to evaluate the servant organization based on OLA model in the form of a case study in Bank Melli Iran branches in Arak. For this purpose, a number of 91 individuals were selected from among the employees of the Bank Melli Iran branches throughout the city in Arak via stratified random sampling. The data were collected using OLA instrument, and later analyzed by means of parame...

the main purpose of this study was to investigate any relationship between high school efl teachers metaphorical understandings of their role in class and their self-efficacy beliefs. teachers metaphors were elicited through two different prompts: one picturing what they believed a language teacher should be like in class, and the other demonstrating what they are actually like in class; such...

to discuss my point, i have collected quite a number of articles, anthologies, and books about "wuthering heights" applying various ideas and theories to this fantastic story. hence, i have come to believe that gadamer and jauss are rightful when they claim that "the individaul human mind is the center and origin of all meaning," 3 that reading literature is a reader-oriented activity, that it ...

although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...

a large number of single research studies on the effects of strategy-based instruction (sbi) in teaching english as a foreign or second language has been conducted so far. however, the lack of a comprehensive meta-analysis targeting the effectiveness of english language sbi is observed. moreover, the findings of experimental studies regarding the context of the english language, proficiency lev...

Extended Abstract Introduction and Objective: The cow cockle has a great potential for producing medicinal products due to its triterpenoid saponins. This experiment was aimed to investigate different cow cockle ecotypes under drought stress conditions and select the tolerant ecotype(s) based on agronomic traits using selection indices under different irrigation regimes. Materials and Methods...

In order to determine the most important components of anise grain yield using regression analysis and path analysis, an experiment was conducted with 12 anise population in a randomized complete block design with three replications at research farm of the agricultural faculty, University of Zanjan in 2014 and 2015.  The evaluated traits were days to flowering, days to maturity, grain filling p...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between risk-taking behavior and performance of Bank Melli Iran branches located in the West Azerbaijan province of Iran. The performance is measured by the profitability index, i.e. profit-to-income ratio in the Bank Melli Iran branches of the West Azerbaijan province. The research data covers all the branches in the area within a si...