charles dickens was a voracious reader even in his childhood. his early reading of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century picaresque fiction greatly influenced his writing style. his first novel, the pickwick papers, is a tale of rogues and swindlers, adventures and quests, satire and comedy, and innocence and experience. oliver twist, dickens’ second novel, is a young boy’s progress through a cor...

abstract this paper discusses several commonly used models for strategic marketing¹ including market environmental analysis methods (i.e. swot and pest analysis) and strategic marketing tools and techniques (i.e. boston matrix and shell directional policy matrix)and shows how these models may help a firm to achieve its strategic goals. at first, the main reason for doing this research is de...

rivers and runoff have always been of interest to human beings. in order to make use of the proper water resources, human societies, industrial and agricultural centers, etc. have usually been established near rivers. as the time goes on, these societies developed, and therefore water resources were extracted more and more. consequently, conditions of water quality of the rivers experienced rap...

in this thesis, we consider a mathematical model of cancer with completely unknown parameters. we study the stability of critical points which are biologically admissible. then we consider a control on the system and introduce situations at which solutions are attracted to critical points and so the cancer disease has auto healing. the lyapunov stability method is used for estimating the un...

 Aim and background: Studies indicate that chronic pain is a comprehensive medical complaint,in a way that many adults are engaged in this process. Thus in this study the aim was to examine the structural relationship of early maladaptive schemas and pain with the mediating role of mindfulness in university students. Methods and Materials: The participants included 201 undergraduate students wh...

since its introduction in 1959, translation quality assessment (tqa) has been among the most addressed research topics in translation studies. during recent years, there has been a crucial increase on the study of tqa. various methods have come on scene. although these methods are based on scientific theories, most of them have remained at the level of theory. juliane house’s model is among tho...

در این پژوهش نهشته های کربونیفر بالایی- پرمین ناودیس تنگ شمشیربر روستای چمن ساور، واقع در شمال غرب دامغان از دیدگاه بایواستراتیگرافی، لیتواستراتیگرافی، پالئواکولوژی و محیط رسوبی مطالعه گردیده است. این توالی رسوبی891 متر ضخامت دارد و قابل تفکیک به سازندهای دورود، روته و قشلاق می باشد. سازند دورود در منطقه چمن ساور 222 متر ضخامت دارد و به ترتیب از توالی ضخیم آهک های آنکوئیدی، لایه های آهکی- تخر...

a semi-empirical mathematical model for predicting physical part of ignition delay period in the combustion of direct - injection diesel engines with swirl is developed . this model based on a single droplet evaporation model . the governing equations , namely , equations of droplet motion , heat and mass transfer were solved simultaneously using a rung-kutta step by step unmerical method . the...

Objective: The present research aimed at determining the mediating role of self-compassion in the relationship between early maladaptive schemas and craving in substance-dependent individuals under methadone maintenance treatment. Method: This research was descriptive-correlational of structural equation modeling type. Among the substance-dependent individuals under methadone treatment referrin...