as a culture-based phenomenon which involves both linguistic and social aspects, translation has been investigated from various perspectives. the present critical discourse analysis (cda)-based study is an attempt to probe into the manipulation of ideologies in translations of political texts. a cda approach, based on fairclough (1989), van dijk (2004) and farahzad (2007), was adopted to conduc...

objective: the present study aimed to clarify dissociative symptoms in patients with schizophrenia and its association with negative and positive symptom of schizophrenia. methods: based on the 4th edition of diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm-iv) criteria, 80 schizophrenic subjects were randomly selected from patients who referred to the clinics of psychiatry hospital i...

in this paper, we propose and evaluate a novel design of a lightly doped drain and source carbon nanotube field effect transistor (ldds-cntfet) with a negative differential resistance (ndr) characteristic, called negative differential resistance ldds-cntfet (ndr-ldds-cntfet). the device was simulated by using a non equilibrium green’s function method. to achieve this phenomenon, we have created...

the recent report by barnhill and king about obesity prevention policy raises important issues for discussion and analysis. in response, this article raises four points for further consideration. first, a distinction between equality and justice needs to be made and consistently maintained. second, different theories of justice highlight one additional important source of disagreement about the...

mammary secretions of 913 quarters from 229 pregnant holstein heifers were obtained aseptically to determine the prevalence of coagulase-negative staphylococci isolated during periparturient period. quarter samples were collected 14 to 10 days before expected parturition. analysis of culture data indicated that 78.5% (717/913) of samples were negative, 20.5% (187/913) contained coagulase-negati...

as pseudomonas, acinetobacter, and staphylococcus that appropriate disinfection can reduce these pathogens. the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of different disinfectants on gram-negative bacteria isolated from the surface of accidents and burn hospital in yazd. materials and methods: in this study, 240 samples were randomly collected from different parts of accidents and burn hosp...

background self-esteem is a stable sense of personal worthiness. there is insufficient evidence from the available research to fully determine the relationship between self-esteem and early trauma. objectives this is a correlational study aims to investigate the relationship between early traumas as a predictor of negative self-esteem by controlling the effect of maladaptive schemas in 11-13 ye...

the purpose of the present research was study effect anxiety of social negative evaluation in children’s social seclusion aged 8 to 12 in tehran city. therefore, 250 children (125 boys and 125 girls) were randomly chosen in order to answer fear short scale of negative evaluation )bfne) and social seclusion scale (ucla). the data from this research were analyzed by using of pearson`s product mom...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of atorvastatin on negative symptoms in patients with chronic schizophrenia. the study was a prospective, double-blind, 6-week trial. forty patients participated in the study; 19 patients were assigned to the atorvastatin group as well as 21 patients to the placebo group. for assessing negative signs, we used scale for the assessment of negative...