background: contamination of the environment due to heavy metals is a major concern to human life and the environment. this study was conducted to investigate and quantify the copper and zinc concentrations in industrial estates soil in arak, iran. methods: four industrial estates were considered for the experimental design, including arak 1, arak 2, arak 3, and ghotbe sanaati. for preliminary ...

Outer-suburban housing estates dominate new house constructions in Australia, and are a major contributor current and future environmental impacts such as water, waste and greenhouse gas emissions (Blair et al. 2003). Typically houses in these estates are built without an in-depth consideration of ecological sustainability factors. Program interventions aimed at promoting more sustainable pract...

The mapping between grammatical functions and thematic roles of resultative constructions has been widely discussed in different frameworks of syntax, and theories have been proposed to account for the mismatches between them. The question behind the construction of these mapping theories always lies in the choice of suppressing one of the two competing roles or fusing them in order to maintain...

measuring individual talent is a prerequisite of talent management. in order to do so, there are methods which have been established such as intelligence tests, general and individual tests, ratings scale and the literature of educational performance. applying these methods are effective, if measurement error is low and validity is high. all current available methods are faced with issues relat...

Britain?Achievements and Problems. By J. H. Nicholson. (Report sponsored by the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust and the National Council of Social Service and published by the N.C.S.S.) This report attempts to review the social consequences of rehousing policies in the country as a whole and covers not only the new towns, but also selected housing estates and expanded towns. Dr. Nicholson found m...