this study is concerned with understanding the impact of demographic changes, socioeconomic inequalities, and the availability of health factors on life expectancy (le) in the low and lower middle income countries.the cross-country data were collected from 91 countries from the united nations agencies in 2012. le is the response variable with demographics (total fertility rate, and adolescent f...

it is accepted that the visual comfort in schools depends on the quality of the whole visual environment. this leads to the concern upon the quality and quantity of lighting. currently in iran, in order to calculate energy transfer for public buildings a coefficient is usually used. this coefficient considers the rate of sunlight energy absorption in these kinds of buildings. to increase the de...

this research investigates the vegetation of 4600 ha of polour semi-steppe rangelands in relation to edaphic and physiographical parameters in mazandaran province. for this purpose, 23 land units were selected from overlaying slope, aspect and elevation maps using geographic information system (gis). within each unit, 3 parallel transects with 100 m length, each containing 10 quadrates (accordi...

this research was conducted to investigate the relationships between soil(organic matter, potassium, phosphorous, sodium, fine gravel, soil texture, ec, lime,gypsum, nitrogen) and environmental (elevation, slope) factors with distribution ofvegetation types in rangelands of sabzdasht, located in bafgh, yazd province at 2012. forthis purpose, four vegetation types were selected as follows: artem...