in recent decades, iranian villages have experienced an increasing transformation culturally and environmentally due to the social changes. in pre-modern period (about half a century ago), villages were known as the production sources and had an important social and economic credit as cities foundation. however, a number of changes occurred in the rural “lifestyle” resulting from development of...

widespread changes in women’s roles in society, in turn, leads to their increasing participation in the social arena, therefore, by increasing women’s autonomy in different aspects of life, they are more likely to reach to higher positions and status than they were in earlier decades. this situation provides the context for changes in fertility ideals (fertility behavior, desires, and ideals) o...

Sustainable energy strategies have been a critical subject for sustainable development, especially in cities. Citizens, as an integral part of the urban environment, play significant role spaces, does their health. An accurate understanding citizens’ mental, social, and physical health settings is required to design plan better This study aims assess level alignment with factors Mahabad, major ...

Abstract Hydropower is a clean and efficient technology for producing renewable energy. Assessment forecasting of hydropower production are important strategic decision-making. This study aimed to use machine learning models, including adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS), gene expression programming, random forest (RF), least square support vector regression (LSSVR), predicting hydroe...

Rapid growth of urbanization and its complications in recent decades has absorbed urban planners' attention to stability and stable development issues. In this regard community which is the core stone of urban development stayed away from formal system of spatial planning, and established communities are in contrast with preserving stable development rules and principals, therefore this researc...

in the present research land use changes modeling in the urmia city is considered in order to detect changes in agricultural lands. in this regard, landsat satellite images were used and then the object base processing satellite images was performed by applying the process segmentation and in the next stage, the optimization of scale segmentation and image analysis to its constituent elements, ...