Introduction: Self-efficacy as well as learning and study strategies improve students’ academic performance through facilitating learning. The present study was conducted to determine the relationship between self-efficacy and learning and study strategies of nursing and midwifery student of Hamedan University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This was a correlation study. All of Hamadan nursing a...

in this study, the effects of oleothermal modification on physical and mechanical peroperties of fir wood (abeis sp.) blocks were examined. at first, some blocks of fir wood with 5 × 20 × 120 cm dimensions were prepared. the blocks were treated in soybean oil. the effects of 3 factors such as treatments temperature (180and 200 °c), holding time (12 and 15 h) and initial moisture content of wood...

Aims: Lack of adequate sexual knowledge and attitude can lead to women's sexual anxiety. The purpose of this study was to predict the sexual anxiety according to sexual knowledge and attitudes of women on the brink of marriage. Instrument & Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out on 556 women on the brink of marriage referring to the family health center of Hamedan in 2...

this study attempted to explore if teaching english collocations through two different modes of awareness-raising and input flooding has any possible differential effect on immediate retention as well as retention in a delayed assessment. it also compared the possible differential effect of teaching english collocations implicitly and explicitly on actively using the items in writing. m...

Introduction: In recent decades, a significant increase has been observed in the average weight of people due to fast food consumption, which increases the risk of developing diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Given the importance of this issue, this study was conducted to investigate the predictors of fast food consumption based on the Prototype/Willingness Model   among students the School...

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...