Digital games have become popular due to great technological improvements in recent years. They have been increasingly transformed from co-located experiences into multi-played, socially oriented platforms (Herodotou, 2009).Multi-User Online Games provide the opportunity to create a social environment for friendships and strengthen the relationships. However, several researchers supported the i...

Multitasking is part of the everyday lives of both adolescents and adults. We often multitask during social interactions by simultaneously keeping track of other non-social information. Here, we examined how keeping track of non-social information impacts the ability to navigate social interactions in adolescents and adults. Participants aged 11-17 and 22-30 years old were instructed to carry o...

the interactions and linkages between urban centers and peripheral settlements are increasingly recognized as key factors in the process of social, economic and environmental changes in peripheral settlements. despite this, most practices are implicitly based on a dichotomous view of population and activities in urban and peripheral area. this paper presents that how interactions between urba...

Article history: Received 3 March 2010 Available online 3 November 2010 JEL classification: L22 L51 O31 O38

Islam is regarded to pay attention to the characteristics of urban life which can be practiced on the urban settings. Not surprisingly, Islam has made a great focus on the form and design of cities and prescribed detailed and elaborate regulations for individual and communal life. Seen from other way round, the penetration of Islam into various regions such as Iran, Europe, and Africa had an un...

Qualified and healthy lifestyle consists of extensivebroad dimensions of physical health, resistance againstdiseases, fast recovery following disease, better socialcommunications, flexibility in facing social problems,better education, better interactions, stress management,transcendental individual and social behavior, as well asmorality. A variety of the contemporary academic studiesand scien...

objective(s):neurotoxicity of anticancer drugs complicates treatment of cancer patients. vinblastine (vbl) is reported to induce motor and cognitive impairments in patients receiving chronic low-dose regimen. materials and methods: the effects of vbl treatment on motor, learning and memory functions of male and female wistar rats were studied by behavioral related tests. animals were given chro...