Teknolojik gelişimin hızlı olduğu, kültürler arası etkileşimin gün geçtikçe arttığı, küreselleşmenin zirve yaşadığı 21. yüzyılda, yabancı dil öğrenmeye yönelik ilgi artmaktadır. Özellikle 1990 sonrası başlayan ve son yıllarda ekonomik, kültürel siyasi gelişmelerin etkisiyle yabancılar tarafından oldukça gören Türkçe, dünyada en çok öğrenilen diller arasına girmeyi başarmıştır. Yabancı öğretimin...

GIS-based ordered weighted averaging and Dempster–Shafer methods for landslide susceptibility mapping in the Urmia Lake Basin, Iran Bakhtiar Feizizadeh a b , Thomas Blaschke a & Hossein Nazmfar c a Department of Physical Geography, Centre for Remote Sensing and GIS, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran b Department of Geoinformatics (Z_GIS), University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria c Department ...

Persian gardens are valuable historical and cultural human-built landscapes however, deteriorating gradually. Thus, comprehensive studies would be helpful in obtaining deeper insights into different aspects meaning of gardens. The descriptive-analytical approach was used to review the EmaratBirooni garden Urmia (Campus University) as it is only remnant Qajar period demonstrating a clear image p...

BACKGROUND Studies in higher education indicated that students' expectation for their educational services are not provided sufficiently, particularly in developing countries that implies on gap between the students perception on current situation and their expectations from educational services. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to determine the gap between student perception and expectat...

Background The topic of food safety has become a major public health issue worldwide. Over recent decades, the growing concern for food safety has brought about greater research regarding the risks associated with the consumption of produce that has been contaminated by pesticides, heavy metals and/or toxins. Objective The study was conducted to determine the concentration of Pb in the muscle...

BACKGROUND Self care of diabetes is essential for control of disease and improvement of quality of patients' life. The aim of this study was to assess factors influencing self-care practice of patients in urban area of Urmia, Northwest of Iran. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, 400 diabetic patients were randomly selected from eight healthcare centers in Urmia City in 2010. Data collecti...

OBJECTIVES Students attend sedentary life style and less like vigorous physical activity. This study investigated the effects of School-based intervention on increasing physical activity for decreasing obesity among high-school obese and overweight boys, based on the components of PRECEDE PROCEED Model, to participate in median - vigorous physical activity among the first Period of high school ...

INTRODUCTION Nowadays maxillofacial fractures have increased. In this study prevalence of different kinds of maxillofacial fractures and their associated factors are surveyed in patients referred to Imam Khomeini Hospital, Urmia in 2011. METHODS The study was across-sectional observational study. 637 cases of patients with a confirmed diagnosis of maxillofacial fractures in 2011 referred to I...

The aim of this study was to determine the Nosema species by microscopic and molecular method its association with honeybee colony losses (Colony Collapse Disorder) in apiaries Urmia, Northwest Iran. For purpose, samples were collected from 840 colonies kept 120 five different location Urmia. specimens examined for presence spores. After DNA isolation, 16S rRNA gene evaluated using multiplex PC...