abstract textbook design and evaluation has recently turned into a very important area in english language teaching. this paper evaluates the english textbooks taught in iranian junior high schools: right path to english which was the medium of instruction until 2013 and the recently designed textbook-prospect- which replaced it. for this purpose, tucker’s (1975) textbook evaluation model was e...

abstract malaria is still the number one killer especially among young children and is responsible for one death per minute in the world. overall,between 250-500 million cases of the disease occur worldwide causing more than one million deaths annually about 90% of which in children under five years of age. although the spread of the disease is worldwide but it is seen mostly in tropical and su...

Prospect Hill virus (PH) was isolated from a meadow vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus) in 1982, and much of its genome has been sequenced. Hantaviruses of other New World microtine rodents have not been genetically characterized. We show that another Microtus species (the California vole M. californicus) from the United States is host to a genetically distinct PH-like hantavirus, Isla Vista virus (...

to cope with the urban congestion problem resulted from rapid urbanization some cities are successfully using electronic road pricing policy as a demand management measure. in 1982, hong kong governmenttook initiative to experiment electronic road pricing in hong kong. though, the project outcome reveals that electronic road pricing could bring tremendous economic, social and environmental bene...

This document contains requirements for Trial 2 the final Prospect trial. The requirements come from various sources; end-user’s in Prospect Trial 1 and a set of Trial 1 assessors have evaluated the Trial 1 system and suggested enhancements and extensions for Trial 2; implementors have likewise provided feedback; additionally the Prospect Consortium has decided new directions to follow for the ...

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a complex metabolic disorder with an increasing incidence worldwide. The disease is characterized by a combination of impairment in insulin secretion from pancreatic beta cells and insulin resistance of peripheral tissues, especially muscle and liver, resulting from interaction between multiple environmental and genetic factors. Life-style changes and obesity are the ma...