Backgound and purpose: Recent rise in elderly population points to the need for social support, and focusing on these people’s relationships and quality of life. Social support acts as a mechanism to tackle isolation and loneliness, and high level of quality of life results in more joy, satisfaction, healthy life, economic prosperity, educational opportunities and creativity. This study aimed a...

Why has man been created? Can human life be considered meaningful? What can be agreed with as the role of religion in making life meaningful? To answer the question one should study the concept of a meaningful life, life-giving agent and its characteristics. One can consider creativity as the agent giving meaning to life. By the creativity is meant such elements like knowledge, freedom and de...

today, scouring is one of the important topics in the river and coastal engineering so that the most destruction in the bridges is occurred due to this phenomenon. whereas the bridges are assumed as the most important connecting structures in the communications roads in the country and their importance is doubled while floodwater, thus exact design and maintenance thereof is very crucial. f...

Introduction: Hypertension is one of the most common chronic diseases in the world today. Various studies have shown that people with hypertension have a lower life quality than people with normal blood pressure. Despite various studies on hypertension, little information is available on the life quality in patients with hypertension. Due to the relative ambiguity in this regard, the study has ...

Background and Purpose: Stress has adverse effects on the quality of sleep and professional life in nurses engaged in intensive care units (ICUs). This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between the qualities of work life and sleep in nurses employed in the ICUs of Mazandaran province in Iran. Methods: This cross-sectional, descriptive-correlational study was conducted on 180 nurses em...

1.1 introduction “i see translation as the attempt to produce a text so transparent that it does not seem to be translated. a good translation is like a pane of glass. you only notice that it’s there when there are little imperfections- scratches, bubbles. ideally, there shouldn’t be any. it should never call attention to itself.” “norman shapiro” (venuti, 1995:1) edward fitzgerald is the br...