within communicative, interactive, and learner-centered framework of language teaching and learning, students need to learn four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing for their educational success. but of all the language skills, reading enjoys a paramount significance in so many second or foreign language academic contexts. in spite of its importance, language learners still have...

assigning premium to the insurance contract in iran mostly has based on some old rules have been authorized by government, in such a situation predicting premium by analyzing database and it’s characteristics will be definitely such a big mistake. therefore the most beneficial information one can gathered from these data is the amount of loss happens during one contract to predicting insurance ...

“any science seeks generalities; the aim is to transcend knowledge of particular cases by discovering general regularities or laws” (chesterman, 2001, p. 1). these were the words of chesterman whose paper has served as a typical example of numerous papers carried out on ‘translation universals’ since the mid-nineties. blum-kulka (1986) is among translation studies scholars who proposed ‘explici...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of marital conflicts in the relationship between communication beliefs, emotional disorders, marital relations with marital satisfaction of addicted women with addicted spouses. Method: The research method was descriptive and correlational. For this purpose, 100 women with addicted spouses referring to addiction treatmen...

This study was carried out to determine the best method and time of budding and grafting in walnut under controlled conditions in Saman, Chaharmahal Va Bakhtiari Province. The experiment was in completely randomized design with 13 treatments, including cleft, splice and whip-tongue grafting on February 4, chip budding on April 4, 19, May 5 and 20, and T-budding and patch budding each one on fir...

Introduction: Knee osteoarthritis is the most common arthritis and musculoskeletal disease. The low efficacy and significant side effects of synthetic drugs in the treatment of this disease have led many researchers to look for a drug that is effective but has fewer side effects. Recently, ginger is one of the most popular herbal remedies in the treatment of this disease. This study aimed to co...

from 1950s onward, new theories and critical approaches burgeoned across humanities. these theories were context-oriented; as a result, the analysis of discursive practices gained significance. thus, social, political, historical and cultural discourses that have been hitherto marginalized and considered inferior to literary texts, were introduced as important texts to be analyzed by critics. o...