1. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Imam Hassan Mojtaba Hospital, Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Karaj, Iran 2. Research Center for Immunodeficiencies, Children’s Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3. Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases Network (PIDNet), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran 4. Department of Immunology...

1 Nursing Department, Islamic Azad University, Aliabad Katoul Branch, Aliabad Katoul, IR Iran 2 Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 3 Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 4 Nursing Department, Islamic Azad University, Iransh...

following the changes in the paradigm of urban studies in recent years, sustainability has become an increasingly important issue in the neighborhood’s planning and designing. however, this concept has originally been developed for american and european neighborhoods’ planning, it could also be customized for other neighborhoods’. additionally, in the neighborhood scale, the quality parameter f...

earthquake has always endangered cities. this article mainly focuses on the question “whether seismic damages could be diminished through the presentation a preventive operational pattern dealing with physical and nonphysical features of civil defense”. tehran, the most populous metropolis among iranian cities is to the south of alborz mountain range, located on potentially dangerous fault- lin...

earthquake has always endangered cities. this article mainly focuses on the question “whether seismic damages could be diminished through the presentation a preventive operational pattern dealing with physical and nonphysical features of civil defense”. tehran, the most populous metropolis among iranian cities is to the south of alborz mountain range, located on potentially dangerous fault- lin...

The word ‘Metropolis’ is a shorter version of the word ‘meterpolis’, itself derived from the Greek word ‘meter’ (mother) and polis (city, town). It is identified as the ‘center city’ which is more developed than other cities in terms of culture and economy (1). Hence, the metropolis is a depiction of hybridity and multi-layering; and while it is related to the city, it is not solely derived fro...

Hossein Fakhraei , Soheila Khalilzadeh 2 , Ghamartaj Khanbabaei , Susan Mahmoudi, Mohammad Reza Masjedi , Mahshid Mehdizadeh , Abbas Momenzadeh, Alireza Nateghian , Payam Tabarsi , Parviz Tabatabaei , Davoud Yadegarinia 9 1 National Immunization Committee of Ministry of health, Tehran, Iran, 2 Clinical TB and Epidemiology Research Center, Masih Daneshvari Hospital, NRITLD, Shahid Beheshti Unive...