background: despite the great body of knowledge on the effects of patient education, it has not been institutionalized in hospital settings. a collective effort was implemented to establish sustainable patient education in the clinical care of neurosurgical patients in a university hospital in arak through an action research in 2011-2012. this article shares a part of experiences and knowledge ...

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Identifying cognitive strategies that people use to support resilient performance has rarely been the focus of experimental work. Our experiments have found that the pervasiveness of failures during human computer interaction can be recognized by individuals, but underlying cognitive and attentional causes cannot. Understanding how individuals recover from failure and adapt to new environmental...

We adapted the nanoparticle-labeling technique from microscopical applications for DNA-chip detection. Nanoparticles can be detected by simple optical means (e.g., reflection or transmission), and exhibit a high stability. So alternative optical readout devices can be applied for the detection of specific DNA-binding on microstructured spots of complementary, surface-immobilized capture DNA. Se...

Photovoice is a participatory action research method which aims to enable students to create compelling visual representations and identify the local social issues.  This paper attempted to investigate the impact of photovoice as an innovative method on the levels of reflection manifested in EFL learners' narratives. To this end, a convenience sample of 48 Iranian intermediate EFL learn...