The literature on language teaching and learning has mostly accentuated motivation as one of the crucial factors influencing learners, but demotivating factors can be of crucial importance as well. In this vein, considering a grounded theory approach, this study has tried to investigate the demotivating factors influencing Iranian university students of non-English majors utilizing an interview...

Modern banks have shifted their function as purely administrative, economic and industrial entities into socio-political institutions that must be sensitive to the surrounding environment. This function has always been neglected. This study was conducted based on primary, secondary, and tertiary data and reviews the full text of 75 studies selected from more than 245 studies. The selected elect...

from among the major problems of iran's present financial resources allocation system, one could refer to unclear relations between financial resources allocation policies and economic indicators as well as insufficient attention to the allocations according to projects priorities, absence of a controlled mechanism for allocation aimed for decreasing or eliminating deviations from the plan...

one of the important factors in urban construction designs is noise prevention. according toresults of this study (2011-2012), a suggested model is presented for traffic noise compatible to conditions in ahvaz. data was colleted to design a model from totally 112 measuring stations, 4 weekdays and 2 intervals as rush hours, yielding to a total number of 1344 traffic noise measurements (leq) and...

environmental impact assessment (eia) has led to the dominance of planners on the natural environment of the regions, providing the possibility of continuously monitoring and controlling the status quo by management staff. in this regard, a new semi-quantitative model is presented for the eia of the eastern alborz coal mining complex using the matrix method, and determining the corresponding im...