Abstract Background: Hand hygiene is the simplest and most effective preventive measures to reduce cross infection in hospitals. However, compliance with recommended instructions is commonly poor among healthcare workers. The present study aimed to explore potential behavioral determinants of hand hygiene compliance among healthcare workers in intensive care units. Methods and Materials: A ...

Gillnets are sometimes abandoned or lost at sea due to sea storms, tearing by a hard object, or the failure of fishermen to find the fishing area. In this study, the data related to the frequency of illegal abandoned fishing nets in Golestan province were collected through field patrols and questionnaire information from spring to winter 2016. 88,465 abandoned fishing nets were collected in the...

this study purported to compare and contrast the use of self-mention and evidentials as two mtadiscourse features in opinion columns of persian and english newspapers. the theoretical basis of this study is the idea that metadiscourse features vary across cultural boundaries. for this purpose, 150 persian and 150 english opinion columns were collected based on three factors of topic, audience a...

the present study aimed at investigating the relationship between iranian efl teachers’ classroom management orientations and their teaching styles. additionally, the difference between male and female teachers’ teaching styles and classroom management orientations and their relationship with experience and age were explored. three hundred efl teachers filled in attitudes and beliefs on classro...

Introduction: In recent decades, a variety of teaching methods has been offered for teaching different fields of science, but the old method of questions and answer is still popular and in use. This teaching method, generally applicable to small groups, is based on questioning and finding answers by students which can increase active learning. This study evaluated students' viewpoints toward cl...

abstract this study aimed at analyzing a corpus of emails gathered from iranian students studying in england. the corpus contained 996 emails that were investigated by employing the framework of chen (2006) to find common patterns in the discourse of these emails. another aim of the study was to find how two request acts (want statements and query preparatory) were used in the emails. the...

Background & Objectives: Previous studies and reports show that majority of motorcyclists do not use helmet in Iran. The aim of study was to evaluate the performance of motorcycle helmet use based on health belief model in Markazi province in Iran.Methods: This cross- sectional study was carried out on 384 subjects selected based on convenience sampling. Participants completed a designed questi...