The present study aimed at finding Catford‟s category shifts applied in the Persian translation of Charles Dickens‟ novel Great Expectations to determine the most frequently used category shift and to check whether there is a significant difference between category shifts in the translation. To this end, 200 simple declarative sentences from the first 20 chapters...

the main purposes of this study were to investigate health problems and their associated risk factors among employees of iranian petrochemical industries. this cross-sectional study was carried out at 21 iranian petrochemical companies. study population consisted of 3580 workers (including 44.2% shift workers and 55.8% day workers). data on personal details, shift schedule and health problems w...

influence of aluminum, gallium, indium- doping on the boron-nitride nanotubes (bnnts) investigated with density functional theory (dft) and hartreefock (hf) methods. for this purpose, the chemical shift of difference atomic nucleus was studied using the gauge included atomic orbital (giao) approch. in the following, structural parameter values, electrostatic potential, thermodynamic parameters,...

Municipality of Tehran with huge number of employees and with the aim to reduce stress and promote the work efficiency, seriously wants to achieve suitable and utilizable studies. Osipow's job stress test is one of the best tools to reach this aim. Data population includes securities building of municipality of Tehran (88 persons from region 18 and 72 persons from region 20), who were randomly ...