in some climates, massive buildings made of stone, masonry, concrete, earth and … can be utilized as one of the simplest and most effective ways of reducing building heating and cooling loads. very often such savings could be achieved in the design stage of the building and with a relatively low-cost. such declines in building envelope heat losses combined with optimized material configuration ...

Derbent has gone down in history as an outstanding monument of world fortification erected the 5th–7th centuries AD to protect against invasions nomads Eurasia. Extensivearchaeological research Derbent, under guidance author, revealed completely new stages city’s existence, and emerged not only main military political stronghold powers medieval East Caucasus but also largest economic religious ...

Organisms often exhibit behavioral or phenotypic diversity to improve population fitness in the face of environmental variability. When each behavior or phenotype is individually maladaptive, alternating between these losing strategies can counter-intuitively result in population persistence-an outcome similar to the Parrondo's paradox. Instead of the capital or history dependence that characte...

the scope of power of governments is one of the main issues in political philosophy and constitutional law. this issue has become significant in islamic republic of iran as an absolute spiritual leadership has been contemplated in the iranian constitution. as the rule of law indicates that all governmental acts must be based on law, it may be assumed that dissolution of khobregan house (expert ...

     Measles is a highly contagious disease. By the end of 2013, 84% of children had received at least a single dose of measles vaccine by their second birthday, and 148 countries had included a second dose as part of routine immunization. In 2002, the Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education developed a comprehensive strategy to eliminate Measles including mass immunization campaign fo...

So far, the mainstream policy transfer literature has concentrated on North-North and North–South transfer. Few studies investigate South–North Whenever they do, focus policies that travelled from South America to OECD countries. Africa Middle East remain blind spots in literature. This study addresses this research gap by asking how it was possible for a group of public health experts Iran's h...