apart from other aspects, desert is a natural environment and is one of the appealing terrestrial elements. putting its symbolic and fictional senses aside, the term “desert” bears mystic sense more than material sense. in addition to the worlds materialistic experiences, desert has attracted the attention of writers because it creates a kind of inner experience, which returns the individual in...

Abstract Introduction: Anabolic-androgenic steroids are one of the powerful drugs that cause long-term hormonal and psychological changes that can have a wide range of side effects for the athletes. Objective: The purpose of this study was to compare the Behavioral Activation-Inhibition Systems and Sense of Coherence in Bodybuilders with and without Use Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids. Material...

simplification universal as a universal feature of translation means translated texts tend to use simpler language than original texts in the same language and it can be critically investigated through common concepts: type/token ratio, lexical density, and mean sentence length. although steps have been taken to test this hypothesis in various text types in different linguistic communities, in ...

Introduction: Quality management through human resource active participation play a key role to pass over the limited resources, demographic and epidemiologic changes, globalization and advanced technologies challenges in health systems. Different approaches are used to improve services quality in health systems. This study was aimed to compare two human resources empowerment approaches in East...

a phase-locked loop (pll) based frequency synthesizer is an important circuit that is used in many applications, especially in communication systems such as ethernet receivers, disk drive read/write channels, digital mobile receivers, high-speed memory interfaces, system clock recovery and wireless communication system. other than requiring good signal purity such as low phase noise and low spu...