Background and Objectives: Fire risk is a potential risk in operating rooms. To have safety, fire risk management and its prerequisites including knowledge enhancement should be considered in operation rooms. The aim of this study was to determine knowledge of operating room staff about fire resources and fire prevention in Valiasr hospital, Boroujen. Material and Methods: In this cross-section...

this thesis attempts to investigate the effects of prelistening activities on enhancing iranian efl learners` listening comprehension. the present study investigated ways in which learners` background knowledge could be activated in order to enhance their l2 listening comprehension by limiting the number of possible text interpretations prior to listening. the experiments conducted in this stud...

Introduction: Increasing student's knowledge and attitude about HIV, HBV and HCV appear important and essential to prevention of such diseases. The aim of present study was survey of educational intervention on knowledge and attitude of dental students of Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences toward standard precautions for prevention of blood born diseases. Materials and Methods: This stud...

abstract the variables affecting the nature of reading comprehension can be classified into two general categories: reader’s variables, and text variables (alderson, 2000). despite the wave of research on vocabulary knowledge as reader’s variable, the role of this knowledge in c-test as a text-dependent test and its interaction with lexical cohesion of the test as a text feature has remained a...

abstract the aim of this study was threefold: (1) to investigate the relationship between knowledge of semantic prosody and efl learners general language proficiency; (2) to examine the relationship between qualitative as well as quantitative knowledge of words, and (3) to compare the performance of efl learner on receptive and productive measures of semantic prosody. the study is based on a...