Drought is one of the most destructive natural disasters in human societies that cause irreparable impacts on agriculture, environment, society and economics. So, awareness of occurrence of droughts can be effective in reducing losses. In this study, in order to modeling and forecasting drought severity in a 37 year time period (1971-2007) in 21 meteorological stations, located in the cold semi...

بررسی تنوع ژنتیکی ژنوتیپ‏های بومی پیاز ایرانی در مقایسه با انواع خارجی چکیده: برنامه های اصلاحی گیاهان بر اساس تنوع و انتخاب صفات برتر کمی و کیفی صورت می گیرد. لذا، ارزیابی تنوع ژنتیکی، اولین مرحله در برنامه های اصلاحی است. در این راستا، استفاده از روش های جدید مطالعه‏ی تنوع ژنتیکی ضروری به نظر می رسد. در این بررسی تعیین تنوع ژنتیکی سیزده ژنوتیپ پیاز ایرانی در مقایسه با دو ژنوتیپ خارجی با است...

Assessment process of vegetation cover by remote-sensing images should be based on understanding of the vegetation indices. Vegetation indices are widely used for assessing and monitoring ecological variables such as vegetation cover, above-ground biomass and leaf area index. The aim of the present research was to study of the ASTER data capabilities to estimate the vegetation cover percentage ...

LISS IV sensor's data from IRS-P6 satellite was used to produce land use map of eastern region of Isfahan, the studied part of which has an area of 22121 hectares. Its three band data, namely band 2 (Green), band 3 (Red) and band 4 (Near infra red) of LISS-IV sensor images with 5.8 m ground resolution were georeferenced by nearest neighbor method and first-order polynomial model to the DEM map ...

nowadays in trade and economic issues, prediction is proposed as the most important branch of science. existence of effective variables, caused various sectors of the economic and business executives to prefer having mechanisms which can be used in their decisions. in recent years, several advances have led to various challenges in the science of forecasting. economical managers in various fi...

these days, all department stores make an effort to provide their clients with valuable products in order to project the best image for them. as a result, clients’ comprehension risk will decrease and they will be more willing to repurchase. having a good image is really important for the department stores because it makes an impression on clients’ comprehension of both quality and risk. consid...

‘romanticism’ and ‘romantic’ are among the most controversial terms in literature. most readers, when encountering these words, would think of the well-known period of romanticism of the first three decades of the nineteenth century and the great six english poets known as ‘the big six’ of this period. however, romanticism does not belong to certain artists in a special period; one may seek ele...

monumental changes occurring on a daily basis have altered the world into a global village of expanding technology and shrinking geography in which preparing language learners for intercultural communication seems to be a sine qua non for modern language education. employing a cross-sectional design in its first phase, this study investigated the intercultural sensitivity and language proficien...