For whom the tunnel be tolled: A four-factor model for explaining willingness-to-pay tolls

For whom the desert bell tolls: heat stroke or stroke

       Heat stroke is the most complicated and dangerous amongst heat injuries that can lead to irreversible injury and even death with itself or with creating predisposibility to different diseases. The following case report depicts a patient who presented primarily with impairment of consciousness after walking 45 km in the summer heat to cross the Syria-Turkey border and la...

For whom the bell tolls?

Households willingness to pay for improved solid waste management

Waste is a byproduct of human life. Nowadays, municipal solid waste is being produced in excessive amounts and in this way, both developing and developed countries are facing challenges regarding generation of waste. Economic development, urbanization and improved living standards in cities have contributed to increase in the amount and complexity of solid waste produced. The present stud...

investigating the feasibility of a proposed model for geometric design of deployable arch structures

deployable scissor type structures are composed of the so-called scissor-like elements (sles), which are connected to each other at an intermediate point through a pivotal connection and allow them to be folded into a compact bundle for storage or transport. several sles are connected to each other in order to form units with regular polygonal plan views. the sides and radii of the polygons are...

Festschrift editorial--for whom the bell tolls.

A fter four and a half wonderful and exciting years at the helm of the Indigo Journal it is time to pass the baton to our new team of Editors – Drs. Abel Ickowicz and Russell Schachar. I am extremely confident that the new editors will help grow the Journal and launch it into the new stratosphere of high quality research and academic debate. They are supported by a dedicated team of professiona...