background: high-intensity interval training is a new training method that has been less explored in patients. aim: the purpose of this study was to compare the effect of eight weeks of interval training with continuous training on changes in hrr and lipid profile in cardiac patients post-coronary artery bypass graft. methods: in this clinical study, 30 cardiac patients of tehran heart centerth...

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...