in order to evaluate the ecological potential for assessing the ecotourism application a region was confined to dez river. mcharg method and networks method were applied. according to makhdoum’s method, to determine environmental units, the ecological resources of the region were surveyed. then evaluation of the ecological potential was carried out on the basis of ecotourism and qualified regio...

The telephone sound effect is widely used in music, television and the film industry. This paper presents a digital model of the carbon microphone nonlinearity which can be used to produce a vintage telephone sound effect. The model is constructed based on measurements taken from a real carbon microphone. The proposed model is a modified version of the sandwich model previously used for nonline...

Cumulative absolute velocity (CAV), Arias intensity (AI), and characteristic intensity (CI) are measurable characteristics to show collapse potential of structures, evaluation of earth movement magnitude, and detection of structural failure in an earthquake. In this paper, parameters which describe three characteristics of ground motion have been investigated by using wavelet transforms (WT). I...

Risk estimation is of great importance in financial risk management. In this study, the exchange rate portfolio performed via stochastic copula approach. This model-based latent process has a parameter that changes over time and thus can model dependency structure between variables comprehensive dynamic way. First, marginals returns are handled with ARMA-GARCH-type models. Then, modeled Finally...

Interprofessional education (IPE) has received increasingly more attention over recent years. The objectives of this study were to assess 1) how nursing students' considerations concerning their own oral health and oral health-related knowledge changed from before to after experiencing IPE; 2) how nursing students', dental students', and pediatric dentistry residents' IPE-related attitudes and ...

The Childhood Asperger Syndrome Test (CAST) is a 37-item parental self-completion questionnaire to screen for autism spectrum conditions in research. Good test accuracy was demonstrated in studies with primary school aged children in mainstream schools. The aim of this study was to investigate the test-retest reliability of the CAST. Parents of 1000 children in years 1-6 in five mainstream prim...