OBJECTIVES Spatial assessment of traffic noise pollution intensity will provide urban planners with approximate estimation of citizens exposure to impermissible sound levels. They could identify critical noise pollution areas wherein noise barriers should be embedded. The present study aims at using the Geographic Information System (GIS) to assess spatial changes in traffic noise pollution in ...

OBJECTIVE To identify the effects of community-based interventions on the Neonatal Health Index in one district of Tehran-Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS A community and healthcare center-based study was carried out from January 2011 through September 2014. The population of the study included newborns from mothers residing in the 4(th) district of Tehran, Iran. Demographic data of mothers and in...

This study focuses on the spatiotemporal dynamics of land use and cover (LULC) in Tselinograd district, which is a peri-urban area (PUA) metropolis Nur-Sultan. The analysis LULC PUA was carried out based supervised classification twenty-year interval (1998, 2008, 2018). During period, noticeable changes occurred structure LULC. At border with city, built-up increased dramatically. In arable for...

This study aims to calibrate and validate the EPA Storm Water Management Model from field measurements of rainfall runoff, in order simulate rainfall-runoff process an urban watershed Tehran metropolis, Iran. During after three significant storm events, flow rates, total suspended solids (TSS), phosphorus (TP), Kjeldahl nitrogen (TKN) concentrations were measured at outlet catchment, used model...

ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE Whilst over three-quarters of the world׳s population continues to use traditional medicine (TRM) with an increasing trend globally, limited data exist in the Ashanti Region regarding TRM utilisation. This study espoused a retrospective cross-sectional quantitative approach to examine the prevalence and pattern of TRM use among the general population in the Kumasi ...

Metropolis is an integrated development environment for system-level design that embodies the concepts of the platform-based design methodology. Metropolis is based on a Metamodel with formal semantics and allows not only design capture, but also formal analysis, synthesis and simulation. After reviewing the basic concepts behind Metropolis, we will describe a realistic use-case scenario that s...

Nowadays, Spatial and social inequalities are universal and expanding phenomenon. Identification and spatial analysis of social, economic and ecological inequalities in metropolises is one of the essential and basic proceeding for planning and achieving urban sustainable development. The present research method is descriptive-analytical and using 13 sub criteria based on three main criteria of ...