Special potentials of plaster causes that it becomes one of the mostly used materials in Iranian architecture in various historical periods. The potentials including low price than other materials, optimum resistance to environmental factors, fast hardening, ductility and good paintability are the main reasons for being using widely in Iranian architecture. These features results in using the p...

Nowadays, consideration to social capital has found increasing necessity and researches indicate that management and improvement of this capital has prominent advantages in communities and organizations. Organizations can increase the efficiency of their resources toward theire goals by reinforcing social capital. This article has investigated the relationship between social capital and employe...

the purpose of this thesis was to investigate how differently metacognitive, cognitive, and social/affective strategies affect l2 learners’ reading comprehension. to this end, the study employed a quasi-experimental design with a placement test as a proficiency test to find the homogeneity of groups. three classes were randomly selected as the experimental groups (n =90), and each class was tau...

why some learners are willing to communicate in english, concurrently others are not, has been an intensive investigation in l2 education. willingness to communicate (wtc) proposed as initiating to communicate while given a choice has recently played a crucial role in l2 learning. it was hypothesized that wtc would be associated with language learning orientations (llos) as well as social suppo...

cultural iran is a scope that is more extended than the political territories of iran as a political unit. this concept means that cultural geography(mehdi moghanlo-1383-1) of iran is greater than its political geography which, according to history, has a long history extending west-east from kandahar to the euphrates and north-south from the persian gulf to the caucasus including transoxiana a...

due to extraordinary large amount of information and daily sharp increasing claimant for ui benefits and because of serious constraint of financial barriers, the importance of handling fraud detection in order to discover, control and predict fraudulent claims is inevitable. we use the most appropriate data mining methodology, methods, techniques and tools to extract knowledge or insights from ...

‏‎in this research,the authors conducted a study comparing two groups of male and female english language learners studying in a elt institute,in terms of their performance on their achievement test including listening comprehension,vocabulary,grammar,and reading comprehension and found no significant difference between the group except in listening comprehension part of the test in which the f...

Objectives The goal of the study is to compare the social capitals of two groups of families (families with and without the elderly). But some scholars of social sciences have introduced family life as the ashlar of social capital and have stated that the root of today’s social chaos is the lack or absence of it. So family as an independent capital has a close relationship with other im...