The short-term in-service EFL teacher education programs are assumed to be of crucial importance in upgrading teachers' methodologies and gearing their teaching more closely to the students' needs. Therefore, a dynamic in-service program for EFL teachers is needed to keep abreast of the time.The present study aims to investigate the role of experience in EFL teachers' satisfaction of the in-ser...

For more than a century, the power system has been an amazing balancing act—how much electricity is generated to be exactly how consumed. This quite unique situation. Most other complex systems—natural or man-made—have buffers built in: rivers can have reservoirs; supply chain systems warehouses; and gas tanks. These decouple flows make operation flexible, fluctuations contained in local areas....

librarians are frequently consulted about proper citation formats and support the use of pc-based personal bibliographic citation management programs, such as endnote, often used by faculty and graduate students. recently, free or inexpensive web-based tools have been developed that create citations and format bibliographies. an analysis of citations generated by these programs shows that they ...

celadon as one of the oldest potteries originated at china during the shang period (3500 b.c (in zhejiang province. from the han dynasty (206-221 a.d), true celadon ware started to appear and these advances would be followed by various kilns in northern and southern china until 17th century. the main aims of this study include: determining the date of first arrival of celadon pottery to iran an...

decentralization is the process of dispersing decision-making closer to the point of peripheral area, service or action. basically decentralized governance, if properly planned and implemented, offers important opportunities for enhanced human development. the studies about this issue in different countries show that most of the decentralizations have been implemented in european countries and ...