Carbon sequestration project is a joint initiative of the government of Iran, UNDP and GEF. The site of the project is a part of rangelands in east of southern khorasan that, due to the proximity to Afghanistan border, has been degraded intensively by afghan immigrants. The project purposes have been identified in global, national and local levels that indicate continuous and systematic relatio...

 The present study attempts to improve the “value” system of Shahed University students at various theological, economical, political, social, artistic and religious levels. For this purposes 242 students and 50 instructors were randomly selected and responded to 45 statements of Allport’s et al. Questionnaire (SOV), for which the validity and reliability were confirmed. The findings revealed t...

recent years have witnessed an increased attention to form focused instruction and consciousness raising activities (ellis, 2002; doughty & williams, 1998) on the one hand and extensive and meaningful exposure to the target language (klapper & rees, 2003; day & bamford, 1998) on the other. due to significance attributed to above mentioned issues by scholars, this study attempted to bridge them ...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the strategies for groundwater resources management, including competition groundwater pumping, optimal control in groundwater pumping, groundwater use and tax policy, water users' participation in groundwater pumping control, and cooperation among government and water user associations in Narimany plain located in Khorasan Province. Irrigation wate...

to teach english adequately, qualified teachers are needed. unfortunately, there are still teachers who are teaching english without an academic degree in tefl. it is necessary for teachers to have a major in english to have subject knowledge, but it is not sufficient. teachers need to have an understanding of the social, cultural, moral, ethical, and pedagogical issues of education and practic...