With the railway transportation Industry moving actively towards automation, accurate location and inventory of wayside track assets like traffic signals, crossings, switches, mileposts, etc. is of extreme importance. With the new Positive Train Control (PTC) regulation coming into effect, many railway safety rules will be tied directly to location of assets like mileposts and signals. Newer sp...

Besides direct impacts of urban biodiversity on local ecosystem services, the contact of city dwellers with urban nature in their everyday life could increase their awareness on conservation issues. In this paper, we focused on a particularly common animal urban species, the feral pigeon Columba livia. Through an observational approach, we examined behavioral interactions between city dwellers ...

Tea is the most common beverage throughout the world. Green tea (Camellia sinensis) is full of flavonoids (1). This herbal drug has a lot of polyphenols, catechin epicatechin, epigallocatechin and epigallocatechin-3-gallate. It also contains other composites like saponins, caffeine, tannins, and some vitamins. Several different investigations have indicated that green tea has hypo-cholesterolae...

BACKGROUND About 5% of the world population are carriers of the hepatitis B virus which is not the same in different areas of the world. Iran, with a rate of 2-3%, is among the countries with average prevalence. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of HBsAg and its associated factors in pregnant women who referred to urban health centers in Isfahan Province. METHODS This was ...

1 Department of Statistics, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran Naghshejahan Institute of Higher Education, Baharestan, Isfahan, Iran. Email: [email protected] 2 Department of Statistics, St. Anthony’s College, Shillong, Meghalaya, India. Email: [email protected] 3 Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Email: [email protected] 4 D...

the main design criteria of ballasted railway tracks include rail deflections, rail bending stresses, rail wheel contact stresses, sleeper bending moments and ballast sleeper contact pressures. numerous criteria have been defined for the design of ballasted railway tracks owing to the various mechanical properties of track components and their complex interaction. therefore, railway track desig...

1Child Growth and Development Research Center, Pediatric Pulmonology Department, Research Institute of Primordial Prevention of NonCommunicable Disease, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, IR Iran 2Imam Hassan Mojtaba Hospital, Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Karaj, IR Iran 3Research Center for Immunodeficiencies, Pediatrics Center of Excellence, Children’s Medical Center, T...

Mohammad Sharifi, Hamed Farahani, Farhad Shahbazi, 3 Masood Sharifi, Christofer T. Kello, and Marzieh Zare Department of Physics, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan 84156-83111, Iran Department of Physics, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan 84156, Iran School of Physics, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran 19395, Iran Department of Psychology, Shahid Behes...

Corresponding author: Mohammad Hassan Nezafati Department of Cardiac Surgery Ghaem Hospital Mashhad University of Medical Sciences Mashhad, Iran PO Box: 91878544 Phone: +989151578421 Fax: +985136078099 E-mail: mhnezafati@yahoo. com 1 Cardiac Rehabilitation Research Center, Isfahan Cardiovascular Research Institute, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran 2 Department of Cardiac Su...

595 Influence of soy oil source and supplementation of the diet with vitamin E and vitamin C on performance and egg quality of Single Comb White Leghorn laying hens from forty four to fifty six weeks of age. H. Irandoust1, A. H. Samie1, H. R. Rahmani1, J. Pourreza1, M. Kadivar2, M. A. Edriss1, P. García-Rebollar3, and G. G. Mateos*3, 1Department of Animal Sciences, Isfahan University of Technol...