Abstract Introduction: Anger and aggression are associated to many personal and social outcomes. The prevalence of this disorder is seen in some communities, including prisoners. Objective: Investigating the prevalence of intermittent explosive disorder symptoms in prisoners in central Rasht Prison. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional survey was conducted on 1801 prisoners in central...

an investigation into oral interaction in language classes: a conversation analytic point of view the aim of this thesis is to analyze the interaction between language teachers and students in english language institutes. this work is done in the context of yasuj city. learning another language, which is in most cases english, involves many variables. one of these variables is the linguistic...

the purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships between teachers’ immediacy behaviors and iranian students’ willingness to talk in english classes. analysis of the results from willingness to talk scale represents a relatively high level of willingness to talk in english classrooms among iranian language learners. the total mean score of students’ willingness to talk was 66.3 ou...

Introduction: This study was to investigate and compare the personality traits and cognitive distortions of people convicted of robbery, drugs, and financial crimes. Methods: A descriptive causal comparison was performed among all prisoners of financial crimes, robbery, and drugs in Shirvan prison; in which two hundred forty male prisoners were selected voluntarily. Neo-five-factor questionnair...

Introduction: The current research was done to investigate the effectiveness of group training of anger control with rational, behavioral and emotional approach on reducing the aggression of male prisoners of central jail, Shahrekord, Iran. Method: This research is a pilot study with control group. Statistical population was all the male prisoners of central jail, Shahrekord, in 2010. 40 priso...

a professional is someone whose work involves performing a certain function with some degree of expertise. but a narrower definition limits the term to apply to people such as teachers and doctors, whose expertise involves not only skill and knowledge but also the exercise of highly sophisticated judgment, and whose accreditation necessitates extensive study, often university-based as well as p...

this study investigated (a) the learners’ existing reading strategy repertoire, (b) the effect of instruction in reading strategies on learners’ strategic performance, and (c) the effect of explicit instruction in top-down reading strategies on reading comprehension ability of intermediate learners. the study was conducted with 40 intermediate efl learners in two groups of experimental and cont...

attempts have been made to study the thermodynamic behavior of 1,3 butadiene purification columns with the aim of retrofitting those columns to more energy efficient separation schemes. 1,3 butadiene is purified in two columns in series through being separated from methyl acetylene and 1,2 butadiene in the first and second column respectively. comparisons have been made among different therm...