the present study has been conducted to determine the surface water quality of urban area in savar, dhaka, bangladesh by determining some water quality parameters (transparency, temperature, ph, ec, eh, do, tss, tds, ts, bod5, cod, toc, cl-, br-, so4-2, no3-, no2-, po4-3, tp, hco3- and total alkalinity) as well as the status of phytoplankton’s community in the water from two lakes (tiger lake a...

having a comprehensive evaluation model with reliable data is useful to improve performance of supply chain. in this paper, according to the nature of supply chain, a model is presented that able to evaluate the performance of the supply chain by a network data envelopment analysis model and by using the financial, intellectual capital (knowledge base), collaboration and responsiveness factors ...

for investigation quantitative and qualitative properties of different lines and cultivars of rapeseed, 19 selected lines from advanced inbreeding progenies, and zarfam variety (as check), totally 20 lines and varieties, were evaluated in a randomized complete block design with three replications at the experimental field of seed and plant improvement institute in karaj, during 2005-6. morpholo...

walnut is an important nut crop worldwide. iran is one of the walnut centers of diversity and cultivation. morphological traits and rapd primers were applied to determine genetic diversity among 31 iranian and four foreign walnut genotypes. from 14 rapd primers, 180 bands were amplified among which 174 were polymorphic. the lowest and highest similarity coefficients were 0.37 and 0.89 respectiv...

university of tehran administers a test known as the university of tehran english proficiency test (the utept) to phd candidates on a yearly basis. by definition, the test can be considered a high-stakes one. the validity of high stakes tests needs to be known (roever, 2001). as mesick (1988) maintains, if the validity of high stakes tests are not known, it might have some undesirable consequen...

displacement coefficient method (dcm) stipulated in the asce 41-06 standard is becoming the preferred method for seismic rehabilitation of buildings in many high-seismic-hazard countries. applications of the method for non-building constructions such as bridges are beyond the scope of this standard. thus its application to this kind of structure should be approached with care. target displaceme...