the present study was carried on to investigate the use of face-keeping strategies in reaction to complaints by male and female in two different cultures, persian and american english. to see if apology strategies are affected by cultural, contextual preferences and gender of interlocutors in two distinct languages of persian and american english. the hypotheses to be tested were 1) ifids, acce...

the quest for power has formed much of the world history especially in 20th and 21st centuries. oil (energy) particularly after industrial revolution has been a tool for conquest and power and has been transformed to a geopolitical issue. from a geopolitical point of view this has been the case for the last two centuries in central asia and caucasus. central asia and caucasus has always been...

Background: Diabetes is a worldwide problem nowadays. The present study was designed to assess the productivity of research on diabetes and to evaluate the gap between the burden of diabetes and research on diabetes, in both developed and developing countries. Materials and methods: An extensive search in PubMed database for diabetes publications, using diabetes as the Mesh term, was carried o...

ABSTRACT: In the last years, meningitis etiologic agents have changed rapidly. In the industrialized countries the most common microorganisms responsible to bacterial meningitis were Group.B.Streptococci and E.coli ,but in the Developing Countries, Salmonella.is considered one of the most common pathogens. Between to 1982-1989, studies carried out in the neonatal ward of Bahrami Hospital confi...

The slogan of WHO in 1986 is “healthy life, victory for all”. It shows more confirmation and attention to positive personal and social activities in direction of health maintenance and health promotion. But in the world that anticipating near one billion people added to young and adolescent population up to 2000 and majority of them live in undeveloped countries and don’t access to health facil...