Recent advances in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have transformed all aspects of human life. Enabled by these advances, over the past few decades, many smart city initiatives been developed across world. Subsequently, various efforts made to develop indicators frameworks for assessment cities. Generally, cities are expected enhance quality life provide solutions deal with so...

introduction:the human being always attempts to find a way to improve his physical and mental abilities. history shows that, despite the many promotions in every branch of science and technology, we cannot see much improvement in thinking abilities. with the advent of the iinternet and www, many thought that the problem will be solved. but nowadays we can see that the main problem remains: the ...

the iranian thymus daenensis subsp. daenensis is rich in monoterpene phenols (especially thymol and carvacrol). this research was conducted to isolate and characterize the plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (pgprs) from rhizosphere of t. daenensis. pgprs were screened based on some physiological traits including iaa production, phosphate solubilization, and siderophore compounds production ab...

introduction: the purpose of this research was to predicate the teachers' assessments of the school-students' performances in math & sciences fields according to meeker's cognitive abilities test. these subscales are based on guilford's intelligence model. these tests identify the comprehensive profile of advantages and disadvantages of cognitive abilities. after performing ...

Substantial underreporting is typical in interviewing respondents on their drug use and other sensitive behaviors. This chapter reviews established strategies, self-administered questionnaires and indirect questioning techniques, for increasing the willingness of respondents to report stigmatizing behaviors. While these methods improve reporting, each has shortcomings and burdens which limit th...

Datatypes in PVS Sam Owre and Natarajan Shankar SRI International, Menlo Park, California National Aeronautics and Space Administration Langley Research Center Hampton, Virginia 23681-2199 November 1997 Prepared for Langley Research Center under contract NAS1-18969 The development of the initial version of PVS was funded by internal research funding from SRI International. More recent versions ...