biodiversity is an important component in sustainability assessment of agroecosystems. along with increasing or decreasing of biodiversity, ecosystem services in agroecosystems will be varied. agricultural experts take into account different factors which affect agroecosystems variation. in this study, farming systems of two areas including a protected mountainous area and also a plain – hilly ...

The aim of this study was to test whether there is an association between elevation and cognitive function among elderly residents in rural mountainous areas. Data were collected in 2012 from a cross-sectional study conducted in Ohnan Town, which is located in a rural mountainous area in the southern part of Shimane Prefecture, Japan. Cognitive function was evaluated using CADi (Cognitive Asses...

Abstract The interaction between the incoming winds and high mountainous islands produces a wind-sheltered area on leeward side, known as atmospheric wake. In addition to weaker winds, wake is also characterized by clearing of clouds, resulting in intense solar radiation reaching sea surface. As consequence, warm oceanic forms side. This phenomenon, detectable from space, can extend 100 km offs...

the first season of survey at qeshm, carried out during the winter of 2006, resulted in the identification of nine sites from the parthian and sasanian periods. the surface pottery from these sites suggests their trade and cultural relations with contemporary sites in the southern persian gulf and other areas. for instance, the parthian and sasanian glazed types in qeshm island are closely re...