ii abstract the legend of human being’s refulgence was distorted completely in the age of modernity. this new age, had some drastic negative effects, besides its positive qualities. one significant negative effect of it was the emergence of neurosis in human beings. aldous huxley’s brave new world was one of the novels of the 02 th century that contained the prophecy of criticizing ...

the concepts of similarity and dissimilarity have been the interest of many researchers. basically, in the studies the similarity between two objects or phenomena, has been discussed. in this thesis, we consider the case when the resemblance or similarity among three objects or phenomena of a set, 3-similarity in our terminology, is desired. later we will extend our definitions and propos...

among the low–dimensional allotropes of carbon, nanotubes and graphene have attracted very much attention from nano–science and nanotechnology specialists. they have been proposed as building blocks in nanometer device engineering. however, these structures are not defect–free. in this thesis, we focused on defective carbon nanotubes and graphene, and studied the effect of couple of very common...

به طور کلی در فرآیندهای مارکوف ارگودیک دو بعدی یافتن فرم بسته توزیع ایستا، تنها برای حالات خیلی خاص امکان پذیر است. با توجه به این مشکل و نیز با توجه به اهمیت توزیع ایستا، بررسی و مطالعه رفتار مجانبی توزیع ایستای این فرآیندها مورد توجه قرار گرفته است. زنجیر قدم زدن تصادفی دو بعدی که در برخی متون به آن، فرآیند qbd دو طرفه نیز می گویند، یکی از این فرآیندها است. یک فرآیند qbd زمان گسسته یک زنجیر م...

this study was designed and conducted to find out if there is any significant relationship between iranian efl learners preferance for one of the three degrees of obtrusiveness in foreign language instruction (focus on form, forms and meaning) and their preferred experiential learing style. to collect the data two questionnaires were used. the first one on the degree of obtrusiveness and the se...

this study focuses on jane austens representation of her heroines in two of her novels: pride and prejudice, and mansfield park. i have concentrated only on a single idea: how jane austen takes her heroines through a course of psychogical reformation to which almost everything else in her novel is subsidiary. although i have discussed only pride and prejudice, we can trace austens carefully pla...

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...

abstract the variables affecting the nature of reading comprehension can be classified into two general categories: reader’s variables, and text variables (alderson, 2000). despite the wave of research on vocabulary knowledge as reader’s variable, the role of this knowledge in c-test as a text-dependent test and its interaction with lexical cohesion of the test as a text feature has remained a...

‏‎this study investigated the effect of prior knowledge on the listening comprehension performance of fl learners. twenty students, male and female, drawn from the two intact groups of the senior and junior english language and literature majors were chosen as the participants of this study . the two groups were then randomly assigned into the experimental and control group. the experimental gr...

oxidative addition reactions of 1,4-diiodo-butane and 1,3-diiodo-propane with [ptme2(ph2phen)]; in which ph2phen=4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline, were studied in different solvents such as acetone and benzene.oxidative addition reaction of [pt me2(ph2phen)] with i(ch2)4i and i(ch2)3i produced the [pt me2i(ch2)4(ph2phen)i] (1a) and [pt me2i(ch2)3(ph2phen)i] (1b).all the platinum (iv) products w...