Bioretention or rain garden is a preferable low impact development (LID) approach due to its characteristics which reflect natural water cycle processes. However, this system is still little understood and quite complicated in terms of design and implementation due to many technical considerations. Hence, this paper gives a review of the challenges and developments for the use of bioretention f...

introduction: video-assisted clinical instruction (vacid) has been found to be a beneficial teaching tool for various fields in dentistry. the aim of this interventional study was to compare the efficacy of live conventional demonstration (cd), video teaching, and vacid (video with explanation) methods in teaching of root canal treatment to undergraduate dental students. methods and materials: ...

sensitive periods such as pregnancy and breast-feeding women and the responsibilities of home and family. it is important to have additional importance. we study the impact of education health belief model health on women's centers sabzevar to prevent drugs taken. methods: an experimental and quasi-experimental study (controlled) before and after. where 160 women referred to health centers have...

an efficiency-centred hierarchical model is developed to assess the performance ofwastewater treatment plants (wwtps). specifically, a new treatment performance index (tpi) hasbeen proposed to determine the overall treatment performance of wwtp by analysing the tpivalues and the weights of individual treatment phase for overall treatment performance. threemodules have been developed to examine ...

The management of prostate cancer involves the consideration of a number of clinical, biological and patient factors in order to determine the most appropriate treatment. These include the clinical stage of the tumour, the presence or absence of high-risk features, and individual patient factors such as comorbidities and performance status. There is then careful discussion between the patient a...