Environmental impact assessment (EIA) has led to the dominance of planners on the natural environment of the regions, providing the possibility of continuously monitoring and controlling the status quo by management staff. In this regard, a new semi-quantitative model is presented for the EIA of the Eastern Alborz Coal Mining complex using the matrix method, and determining the corresponding im...

Emphasis on sustainable development and the need to protect the environment as well as the adverse effects of environmental pollution on the quality of life have made environmental protection one of the main concerns of economic policymakers. For this purpose, approaches to improve the quality of the environment and the factors affecting it have triggered extensive theoretical and empirical stu...

Environmental data and models are uncertain by nature. The lack of knowledge about, for example, the magnitude of potential measurement errors may lead to unforeseen consequences. This makes it difficult to assess the data’s or model’s usefulness for critical applications. We present an approach for the visualization of uncertainty coming from in-situ environmental sensors. The visualization co...

To understand the traditional description of medicine as a practice of healing, it is necessary to examine its relationships with both science and ethics. The “scientific” component of medicine includes an acknowledgment of the influence of social, cultural and environmental factors on the functioning of the organism. The “ethical” component is often presented as merely supplementary but actual...

The conventional method of measuring environmental sounds according to sound pressure level (SPL) alone is not adequate for a qualitative evaluation of environmental sounds. To improve such evaluation, we measured the power spectra of various environmental sounds and their fluctuation in a microtemporal domain of several milliseconds using Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) analysis and the maximum e...