Given that Mandarin is a tone language and English is not, the present study investigated the perception of Mandarin tones in young school-aged children with or without tone language exposure. Mandarin Monolingual (MM), English-Mandarin Bilingual (EMB) and English Monolingual (EM) children aged 6 to 8 years participated in tone identification and discrimination tasks. Tone identification and di...

– Sustainable evaluation of construction projects in strategy-focused condition is the main issue for municipalities to appropriately improve public sector services. In this respect, the group decision-making methods could help experts to select suitable sustainable projects and to schedule them regarding their ranking results. Therefore, the objective of this study is to present a hybrid group...

BACKGROUND Chagas disease has historically been hyperendemic in the Bolivian Department of Cochabamba. In the early 2000s, an extensive vector control program was implemented; 1.34 million dwelling inspections were conducted to ascertain infestation (2000-2001/2003-2011), with blanket insecticide spraying in 2003-2005 and subsequent survey-spraying cycles targeting residual infestation foci. He...

Location is an important factor in the activity of economic enterprises. Owing to the importance, location-based sciencesought/seeks to provide the methods in order to determine and select the optimal location in the activities of enterprises. Enterprises seek to use scientific methods to maximize the services and efficiency and minimize the costs. Suitable location plays an important role in m...

objective:  to evaluate the frequency of different psychiatric disorders among 7 to 12 years old children in urban areas of tehran. method: a sample of 799 children (6 to 11 years old) were selected from 250 clusters of the entire 22 municipality areas of tehran using a multistage sampling method from 250 clusters from the entire 22 municipality areas of tehran.. after responding to a persian v...

This study investigated the effect of the socioeconomic level of the municipality of residence on personal injury road traffic accident risk among young persons of 10-24 years of age in the Rhône Département. This effect was assessed by comparing incidences of injuries (n=2792 casualties) on the basis of three denominators: the resident population of young people, the number of users of each mo...

over the last decade, coinciding with the growth of information and communication technologies, globalization expansion and consequently increased awareness of citizens, communities’ dissatisfactions over the lack of accountability, lack of transparency and centralized government structure is leading to the emergence of the new approach called e-governance. e-governance, against e-government by...

16 A Bi-Objective Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Window by Considering Customer Satisfaction; Masoud Rabbani, School of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran Mahyar Taheri, School of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran Mohammad Ravanbakhsh, School of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, Uni...