Background: Emergency operation centers (EOC) have been established in recent years aimed to organize and coordinate through disasters. These centers are responsible for decision-making in response and recovery phases after events. This study is aimed to develop a standard function evaluation criteria for EOC. Materials and Methods: This mixed method study with sequential triangulation appro...

The present study is a cross-sectional research in terms of applied purpose and descriptive-survey research and in terms of time index. Its purpose is to investigate the effect of specialized training and job commitment by examining the mediating role of self-fulfillment and educational adequacy among teachers. Breeding is a Germi city. the statistical population included all education teachers...

since the 1960s the age effects on learning both first and second language have been explored by many linguists and applied linguists (e.g lennerberg, 1967; schachter, 1996; long, 1990) and the existence of critical period for language acquisition was found to be a common ground of all these studies. in spite of some common findings, some issues about the impacts of age on acquiring a second or...

recent studies in scientific education as well as foreign and second language instruction suggest that thinking has rarely been an integral part of education and training in classroom. some scholars decried the lack of emphasis on thinking in the institutes and schools. they noted that memorization and drills were rewarded,while inquiry, reflection, and consideration of alternatives were frowne...

Objective To be up-to-date, the medical community must have the ability to communicate in the electronic environment and search for information resources. The present study aims to develop a questionnaire to assess the attitudes of Iranian medical students towards searching for information resources by formulating clinical questions and evaluate its validly and reliability. Methods This is a d...

abstract lexical knowledge of complex english words is an important part of language skills and crucial for fluent language use (nation, 2001). the present study, thus, was an attempt to assess the role of morphological decomposition awareness as a vocabulary learning strategy on learners’ productive and receptive recall and recognition of complex english words. so 90 sophomores (female and ma...

  Background & Aims : Questionnaires and scales which are used in the researches to achieve the goals should be standardized to insure the results of the researches. This study planned to standardize, reliability and validity of the concepts of Health Belief Model in pill and condom users.   Materials & Methods : In this study by reviewing documents and some of the applied questionnaires in the...

the debate whether esp teachers need to have knowledge of the specialized field they are teaching has been an issue in the literature over the last two decades. the aim of conducting this study was to explore iranian learners’ and instructors’ beliefs and attitudes concerning the role of specialized knowledge in teaching esp classes. a seventeen item questionnaire was administered to 400 esp le...