the current study examined iranian undergraduate efl students’ willingness to communicate with regard to their vocabulary knowledge. in general, participants were somewhat willing to communicate in english. the total mean score of 730 university students’ perception of willing to communicate was 83.53 out of 135. results, regarding four parts of willingness to communicate, revealed that part...

the following question poped up: is there any relationship between iranian high school efl learners reading comprehension and listening comprehension? then the following null hypothesis (ho) was developed to the test the above, mentioned question. "there is no relationship between high school efl learners reading comprehension and listening comprehension. for nearly 16 weeks, the experimental g...

Objective: The main objective of the study was to investigate the effect of factitious and true neurofeedback training on the balance performance of active males. Methods: Twenty physical education male students were selected through purposive sampling and were randomly divided into real neurofeedback and sham neurofeedback groups (with mean age 21.38±1.32 years and mean weight of 71.01...

Review: Purpose. Practice in today's health care center is recommended for patients with back pain and many researchers agree that the issue of the proposed stabilization exercise training in chronic pain conditions Mackenzie workouts with acute conditions, back pain the most appropriate option be. within the influence of the electric current applied to the treatment of back pain, however, is ...

the rationale behind the present study is that particular learning strategies produce more effective results when applied together. the present study tried to investigate the efficiency of the semantic-context strategy alone with a technique called, keyword method. to clarify the point, the current study seeked to find answer to the following question: are the keyword and semantic-context metho...

Objectives: the present research aimed to study the effects of whole body vibration, mental practice and combined vibration and mental practice on static and dynamic balance of elderly men. Methods & Materials: this was a semi-experimental research. The participants included 42 healthy, elderly men aged (60-80 yrs) from Mashhad who was randomly categorized into 4 groups: vibration (n=12), me...

in this study, the effects of oleothermal modification on physical and mechanical peroperties of fir wood (abeis sp.) blocks were examined. at first, some blocks of fir wood with 5 × 20 × 120 cm dimensions were prepared. the blocks were treated in soybean oil. the effects of 3 factors such as treatments temperature (180and 200 °c), holding time (12 and 15 h) and initial moisture content of wood...