Editor's Note: Growing a Reader

Editors note

EDITOR’S NOTE Geopersia is published biannually by the College of Science, University of Tehran, Iran. The College of Science published “Journal of Science”, which covered all fields of basic science, from 1968 to 2010. It was then decided that the College’s journals should be more specialized, and hence publication of Geopersia was launched. Geopersia aims to publish peer-reviewed original...

editors note

editor’s note geopersia is published biannually by the college of science, university of tehran, iran. the college of science published “journal of science”, which covered all fields of basic science, from 1968 to 2010. it was then decided that the college’s journals should be more specialized, and hence publication of geopersia was launched. geopersia aims to publish peer-reviewed original res...

Note from the Editors: Striving for a More Reader-Friendly Journal

liquid contamination of the subsurface. That article was among the first to model the infiltration of organic solvents into aquifer systems. Before the mid-1980s, the importance of separate phase liquid pollutants was not appreciated, and most investigations into groundwater contamination had focused on solute (dissolved constituent) transport. Since that time, substantial resources have been d...

A Note to the Reader

This paper is organized in three almost self contained sections. The first section is a popular discussion on the number of crosswords based on a remark of Shannon made in [Shannon, 1948]. Although never published, the ’back-of-the-envelope’ calculation we present is believed to be the same argument Shannon had in mind when he wrote the passage on crosswords. The second section presents the Hau...

A Note From the Editors