cardiovascular disease (cvd) is the driving force behind the discrepancy in life expectancy between indigenous and nonindigenous groups in many countries. preceding cvd many indigenous groups exhibit a cluster of cardiometabolic risk factors, including overweight-obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure. in turn, modifiable lifestyle risk factors contribute to the developmen...

comparative literature,when it is looked at by french school ,investigates,studies and compares historical roots of the folk(national) literature with other kinds of such literature.comparative literature research works have always been under each others influence since the beginning of literary activity up to second part of the twentieth century,that is when american literary school was ushere...

background: antimicrobial peptides play a role as effectors substances in the immunity of vertebrate and inverte­brate hosts. in the current study, antimicrobial peptide was isolated from the haemolymph of the american cock­roach, periplaneta americana . methods: micrococcus luteus as gram-positive bacteria and escherichia coli as gram-negative bacteria were candi­date for injection. induction ...

farsi and english are both indo-european languages with similarities in their roots. as such, this experiment was conducted to understand which english accent (i.e. american, british or australian accents) would be easier for iranians to adapt. to answer this question, 30 medical students performed three different activities of (i) listening to audio texts in three accents, (ii) taking part in ...

textbooks play a pivotal role in language learning classrooms. the problem is that among a wide range of textbooks in market which is appropriate for a specific classroom and a group of learners. in order to evaluate elt textbooks theorists and writers have offered different kinds of evaluative frameworks based on a number of principles and criteria. this study evaluates a series of elt textboo...

occupy wall street was a flag which went to the hands of the american protestors. this flag reflected the simulation of occupy wall street to the occupation of palestine and the main reference of the protest was aimed at zionism. the deep roots of this occupation dates back to the occupation of the american natives’ territories and in fact the same american monopoly in the path of american hist...

The present study examined email communication practices of two groups of students in Iran and the United States to uncover the probable differences between Iranian and American email communication norms. The study also aimed at investigating how power distance in academic centers influences students’ choices of communication strategies in email writing. The use of two politeness strategies nam...

McCarthy scholarship has predominantly tended to stress the writer’s revisionism with regard to his rendering of the myth of the American West in Blood Meridian (1985). McCarthy’s novel has beenmainlyhailed as a critique of the violence of manifest destiny. This study aims to delineate aspects of McCarthy’s narrative which resist the predominant view of him as a revisionist. In this re...