the present paper investigates how far ideologies can be tease out in discourse by examining the employed schemata by two ideologically opposed news media, the bbc and press tv, to report syria crisis during a period of nine months in 2011. by assuming that news is not a valuefree construction of facts and drawing on micro structural approach of schema theory, for the first time in discours...

Salinity is one of the environmental factors that has a critical influence on plant growth and development.  Researchers have shown that some plant growth regulators such as nitric oxide improves the plants resistance to environmental stresses such as salinity, heat, cold and drought. Sodium nitroprusside (SNP) commonly was used as a nitric oxide (NO) donor in plants. The aim of this resea...

vocabulary as a major component of language learning has been the object of numerous studies each of which has its own contribution to the field. finding the best way of learning the words deeply and extensively is the common objective of most of those studies. however, one effective way for achieving this goal is somehow neglected in the field. using a variety of activities such as games can r...

Since about 20% of the world's arable land and 50% of productions in the world are subject to salinity stress, it affects all stages of plant life from germination to seed production. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of salinity stress on physiological and biochemical characteristics of some wheat cultivars. For this purpose, a factorial experiment was conducted in a complete...

In order to investigate effects of Azomite application in reducing salinity stress in basil herb, a pot factorial experiment based on completely randomized design with three replications was conducted in the research greenhouse of Agriculture Faculty, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. Treatments were consisted of salinity stress at three levels (0, 50 and 100 mM) as the first factor and the appli...

nowadays enhancing critical thinking in learners is considered one of the foreign language teachers’ tasks due to its high position in foreign language classrooms. when it comes to selecting materials for language classrooms, there are obviously some criteria that teachers should apply. the present study aimed at a critical thinking based analysis of ten picture story books and ten folktales th...

The aim of this study was to investigate of betaine effect on growth performance, hematology and resistance of Schizothorax zarudnyi to salinity stress. For this purpose, 120 fish (6.58±0.29 g) were fed with levels of 0 (control), 0.5% (treatment 1), 1% (treatment 2) and 2% (treatment 3) 2 times per day for 8 weeks. At the end of the period, the fish were biometric and exposed to 20 g. L-1 sali...