the form and morphology criteria are among  effective components in enhancement and improvement of urban environments and one of the features of successful urban spaces, is the way these criteria are arranged alongside each other especially at the visual landscape of an entrance space, because entrance of every place is the first and most important communication ring between the person and the ...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Fatal outcome of opioid overdose, once detected, is preventable through timely administration of the antidote naloxone. Take-home naloxone provision directly to opioid users for emergency use has been implemented recently in more than 15 countries worldwide, albeit mainly as pilot schemes and without formal evaluation. This systematic review assesses the effectiveness of tak...

Enterprises are faced with the task of managing a plethora of mobile computing devices in the workplace that are employed for both business purposes and private use. This integration can contribute to the demands of security protection and add significant threats to the enterprise. The introduction of the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) system is a significant step in e-h...

BACKGROUND RNA interference (RNAi) technology is a powerful methodology recently developed for the specific knockdown of targeted genes. RNAi is most commonly achieved either transiently by transfection of small interfering (si) RNA oligonucleotides, or stably using short hairpin (sh) RNA expressed from a DNA vector or virus. Much controversy has surrounded the development of rules for the desi...

At present, environmental issues become real critical barriers for many supply chain corporations concerning the sustainability of their businesses. In this context, several studies have been proposed from both academia and industry trying to develop new measurements related to green supply chain management (GSCM) practices to overcome these barriers, which will help create new environmental st...

Fault-tolerant scheduling is an important issue for optimal heterogeneous distributed systems because of a wide range of resource failures. In this paper we propose a fault-tolerant scheduling heuristics for precedence task that is based on primary-backup replication scheme on a realistic platform model where communication contention is taken into account. We focus on a bi-criteria approach, wh...

In the physical sciences a rigorous theory is a hierarchy of descriptions in which causal relationships between many general types of entity at a phenomenological level can be derived from causal relationships between smaller numbers of simpler entities at more detailed levels. The hierarchy of descriptions resembles the modular hierarchy created in electronic systems in order to be able to mod...

Success of an exhibit can be judged in two ways—visitor measures and/or critical appraisal by experts. Visitor measures include behavior, knowledge, and affect. Critical appraisal by experts can take any of three perspectives — that of the expert in visitor studies, that of the expert in the subjectmatter, and that of the artist. Each of these criteria is described in Part 2 of this article.

south pars oil operation activities in the south of boshehr province require settling new population in line with balancing relations among human, space and activity in this area it is necessary to organize and arrange population and shaping new residences for new population and these are unavoidable. under study area includes 5 counties, 11 villages and 5 cities this area reaches to dashtestan...