seismic retrofit strategies have been developed in the past few decades following the introduction of new seismic provisions and the availability of advanced materials and methods. it can be observed that new approaches to deal with more lateral forces are more innovative and more energy absorbent. in line with this, there is a growing trend toward the use of steel shear walls as a system with ...

abstract u.s. attack to afghanistan after 9/11 provided opportunities for us who tried to become the dominant power after collapse of ussr and bipolar world. thinkers like fukuyama believed american liberal democrats thought would be universally accepted without resistances. liberal democracy is the best and final model of governance; in this regard, united state has moral responsibilities for...

GIS and remote sensing technique with using Landsat 8 images data are very important methods for detection of geothermal resources. In this study, Land Surface Temperature (LST) for Ardabil province in northwest of Iran, was derived with the use of Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) of 30 m spatial resolution and Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) data of 100 m spatial resolution. We consider ...

    Background & Aims : Individual differences in diurnal preferences and circadian rhythms are viewed as an interesting dimension of human personality. This study aimed to determine the different happiness and satisfaction with life in morning-evening types.   Materials & Methods : The population of the study included 200 students (176 female and 24 male) who were selected by stratified random...

 Shanderman eclogites are exposed at the west of Shanderman town, Talesh Mountains, in north Iran. Protoliths in these rocks has basaltic composition. Geochemical studies indicate that most of the samples have tholeiitic feature. Mg# versus Cr and Ni show that they experienced olivine and clinopyroxene fractionation. Spider diagram shows more fractionation of olivine compared to clinopyroxene. ...

This study was conducted to evaluate the quantitative and qualitative characteristics and grain yield stability of 10 promising lines of rice, compared to cultivar Khazar as the checking variety, in Rasht, Roudsar and Talesh cities of Guilan province, Iran, in three years. The experiment was conducted using a randomized complete block design with three replications. Characteristics such as grai...

Models and various studies have attempted to by examine the relationship personality and cognitive variables, explains symptoms of depression and anxiety. Thus, this study aimed to determine the role of worry and rumination in relationship neuroticism with syndromes of depression and anxiety in students. The sample included 210 students (164 female and 46 male) who were randomly selected from a...