English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP) uses the results of needs analysis for curriculum development and materials production. ESAP courses should be based on students’ academic needs. Consequently, the present study investigated the English language needs of Iranian undergraduate students of Law. Participants included 218 undergraduate students, 33 graduate students, and 10 content teac...

while referring to professor horngrens approaches including: absolute truth, conditional truth costly truth and behavioral approaches in management accounting. the author also reviews the historical developments of this branch of knowledge in accounting during 15 to 20 centuries, and considers the roles of scientists in different fields.

as this is the first issue of the international archives of health sciences, a scholarly journal of kashan university of medical sciences, we start with an editorial of dr. rouhullah dehghani, the editor-in-chief, to explain the aims and views of the editorial board members and the scope of the journal.

data envelopment analysis (dea) is an efficient method to perform evaluation of units. in dea we try to evaluate units with undesirable factors in input & outputs by satisfaction function, testing some models. on the other hand benefiting this concept, we can identify non-efficient units. also we can recognize why these units are inefficient and calculate the reason of their inefficiency and ho...

november arrives and as each year the iranian congress of ophthalmology organized by the iranian society of ophthalmology, a national and very popular re::::union:::: of the iranian ophthalmologists and some colleagues from the surrounding countries. this year a new congress center (aboreyhan international conference center, shahid beheshti university) at north of tehran has been chosen for thi...

A door silently opens, activated by a video camera and a face recognition system. Computer access is granted by checking a fingerprint. Access to a security vault is allowed after an iris check. Are these scenes from the latest Hollywood spy thriller? Perhaps, but soon it could be in your office or on your desktop. Biometric authentication technologies such as face, finger, hand, iris and speak...

Emerson’s Temporalities: The Eternal Present vs. the Not Yet Danielle Follett (bio) 1. introduction In “Experience” (1844), Emerson writes, “Our life seems not present, so much as prospective.”1 Here and elsewhere he expresses an intuition of human natural vitality a process becoming progression toward glimpsable but yet existent, more harmonious state. “Not for affairs on which it is wasted,” ...