with the purpose of presenting a design approach of interventions for conservation of historic districts of cities, the city of ardebil is discussed as a case study. with the complexity of cultural relations in the contemporary world, it has a great importance to protect human connections and also urban historic spaces in which these cultural relations had been presented for long time. the city...

The resolution of growing conflict between monkey and man requires quantitative data on the nature and context of man-monkey agonistic (aggressive-submissive) interactions particularly in the urban areas. The ethological approach was followed to study the effect of habitat, species, and season on agonistic interactions between humans and monkeys in the city of Shimla. Three way ANOVA revealed t...

During the last five years, our research group has studied the architecture and evolution of several large open source systems — including Linux, GCC, VIM, Mozilla, and Apache — and we have found that open source software systems often exhibit interesting differences when compared to similar commercially-developed systems. Our investigations of these systems have involved the creation of softwa...

this study evaluates the lifelikeness layers of boroujerdi’s house in kashan as a case study to analyze the houses of islamic period, especially qajar era. why traditional iranian architecture was considered as sustainable architecture? what are the elements included in the traditional architecture to take the most advantage of the least facilities? what elements does the modern architecture la...