abstract previous studies on willingness to communicate (wtc) have shown the influence of many individual or situational factors on students’ tendency to engage in classroom communication, in which wtc has been viewed either at the trait-level or situational level. however, due to the complexity of the notion of willingness to communicate, the present study suggests that these two strands are ...

rivers and runoff have always been of interest to human beings. in order to make use of the proper water resources, human societies, industrial and agricultural centers, etc. have usually been established near rivers. as the time goes on, these societies developed, and therefore water resources were extracted more and more. consequently, conditions of water quality of the rivers experienced rap...

as far as bandura’s (1977) conceptualization of the sense of self-efficacy is concerned, it is argued to be context- and even task-specific, compared to other concepts like self-esteem (brown, 2000); therefore, upon the previous research studies, related theories and definitions, and the ideas and views obtained from the interviews conducted with the scholars, the current research study aimed a...

     In this study, estimation of genetic parameters were performed for some reproductive disorders (retained placenta, repetitious abortion and infertility) and genetic and phenotypic correlations between these traits with milk, fat and protein yield.  The obtained data were collected from 63403 Holstein cows on Animal Breeding Center of Iran (from 2001 to 2013). After editing the data, estima...

there are many approaches for solving variety combinatorial optimization problems (np-compelete) that devided to exact solutions and approximate solutions. exact methods can only be used for very small size instances due to their expontional search space. for real-world problems, we have to employ approximate methods such as evolutionary algorithms (eas) that find a near-optimal solution in a r...

In this study, estimation of genetic parameters of Lameness and genetic and phenotypic correlations between Lameness and milk, fat and protein yield were performed. The data obtained from 63403 Holstein cows were collected from the Animal Breeding Center of Iran between 2001 to 2013 Estimation of genetic parameters for lameness was performed by univariate animal and Threshold models. Also, esti...

      The present study was conducted to estimate the genetic and phenotypic parameters of productive and reproductive traits of Holstein cows in Mazandaran Holstein dairy cattle. To this purpose, data 39792 records of Holstein cows collected at Mahdasht Milk and Meat Company in sari during 1986 to 2015 were used. Productive traits included corrected 305 days milk records, fat and protein produ...