School buildings as a major part of public buildings are considered as one of the basic consumers of energy in Iran. Based on building typology and occupancy patterns, school buildings have a great potentiality for energy optimization while providing thermal comfort. This study investigates the architectural design parameters such as orientation, optimum window to wall ratio, space organization...

Semi-buried structures are most commonly used at first line of defense along the border between two countries. This demands investigation of their dynamic behaviour under blast loading. Herein, a semi-buried structure with foam sandwiched walls and buttresses to reduce the effect of blast is analysed. The effect of provision of different configurations of buttresses and foam core between two la...

In recent years, the most powerful supercomputers have already reached megawatt power consumption levels, an important issue that challenges sustainability and shows impossibility of maintaining this trend. To date, prevalent approach to super-computing is dominated by CPUs GPUs. Given their fixed architectures with generic instruction sets, they been favored lots tools mature workflows which l...

karim khan can be considered as the only authoritative king in the whole zand era, thus the cultural and artistic foundations of this vary era is related to his government and him. seemingly, he was uneducated; however, he was interested in art, literature, and science. therefore, his court was the concourse of scientists, scholars, and artists. moreover, he has supported so many architectural ...

This review involves three main parts: the formation, properties and applications of GPMVs. The are also divided into GPMVs as cell mimics, plasma membrane models drug carriers.