PURPOSE The study focus is on the quantitative achievements in urology education and growth trends in urologic surgical workforce and fellowships by gender since 1979. MATERIALS AND METHODS This comprehensive national quantitative study was performed in Iranian Academy of medical science. The first hand data gathered from The Iran Specialty Training Council of and also from Medical Council of...

Dust storms are devastating natural disasters that cost billions of dollars and many human lives every year. Using the Non-Hydrostatic Mesoscale Dust Model (NMM-dust), this research studies how different spatiotemporal resolutions of two input parameters (soil moisture and greenness vegetation fraction) impact the sensitivity and accuracy of a dust model. Experiments are conducted by simulating...

The devastating impact by Hurricane Sandy (2012) again showed New York City (NYC) is one of the most vulnerable cities to coastal flooding around the globe. The low-lying areas in NYC can be flooded by nor'easter storms and North Atlantic hurricanes. The few studies that have estimated potential flood damage for NYC base their damage estimates on only a single, or a few, possible flood events. ...

the southern coasts of caspian sea is subjected to synoptic/mesoscale weather systemsranging from locally enhanced sea breeze formation and small local front systems to synoptic scale cyclones.this study presents climatology of cyclones over the southern coasts of caspian sea covering a ten year period1996-2005. altogether 57 cyclones were formed during the ten year period. anoticeable seasonal...

a bstra ct   background: divorce is one ofthe most controversial and damaging social issues. since the divorce rates are increasing rapidly, the current study evaluated the effects of factors leading to divorce application.   materials and methods: this qualitative content analysis used purposive sampling to select 10 female divorce applicants at isfahan department of justice (isfahan, iran). i...

Dust storm is a natural hazardous phenomenon that affects arid and semi-arid regions of the world same as Iran. The present research aims to investigate formation synoptic patterns pervasive dust storms (PDSs) in southwestern For this purpose, daily data visibility less than 1000m 16 stations (Ilam Khuzestan provinces) were reviewed during 2004–2017, 59 PDSs with more 2 days duration (overlappe...

Wind profilers offer the unique ability to directly measure vertical motion profiles through precipitating and non-precipitating cloud systems. This ability has been exploited through a series of analyses of storms near Darwin, Northern Australia, which have focused on the statistical characteristics of the vertical motion within a large number of storms as well as case studies of squall lines ...

Winter storms pose numerous hazards to the Northeast United States, including rain, snow, strong wind, and flooding. These hazards can cause millions of dollars in damages from one storm alone. This study investigates meteorological intensity and impacts of winter storms from 2001 to 2014 on coastal counties in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York and underscores the consequences of winter sto...

the probable maximum precipitation (pmp) is the greatest depth of precipitation for a given duration that is physically possible over a given size storm area at a particular geographical location at a certain time of the year. in this study a physically based method was compared with a statistical procedure to calculate pmp in the southwest arid regions of iran. in order to estimate pmp using a...

We study the annual frequency of occurrence of intense geomagnetic storms (Dst < )100 nT) throughout the solar activity cycle for the last three cycles and ®nd that it shows di€erent structures. In cycles 20 and 22 it peaks during the ascending phase, near sunspot maximum. During cycle 21, however, there is one peak in the ascending phase and a second, higher, peak in the descending phase separ...