The Spanish Flu was one of the disasters in history Iran, especially Southern which led to death a significant number people Iran. It started on October 29, 1917, and lasted till 1920 – disaster that we can claim changed history. In First World War battlefields southern Iran 1918, there nothing left until end I when battle between Iranian warriors (especially Dashtestan Tangestan Bushehr, Arabs...

Background and aims: Brucellosis is one of the most important common diseases among man and livestock which are considered as the major problem in the health of the humans and livestock. The Importance of this disease isn’t limited to its physical problems and consequences, but it is considered as a major challenge of economic development in most countries. The aim of this stud...

S. Jamshid Mousavi (corresponding author) M. Shourian Department of Civil Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran E-mail: [email protected] A mixed integer optimization model is formulated for capacity optimization of a hydropower storage project with control on reliability of meeting the project’s firm energy yield. Particle swarm optimization (PSO) i...

Properties of the metal–water interface have been addressed by periodic density functional theory calculations, in particular with respect to the electronic and geometric structures of water bilayers on several transition metal surfaces. It will be demonstrated that the presence of the metal substrate leads to a significant polarization of the water bilayer. This causes a substantial water-indu...

We study the field-emission properties of an ultrathin silver nanowire using first-principles methods. The simulation and analysis of the field emission are carried out based on density-functional theory using a localized basis scheme. Through the explicit time evolution of wavefunctions, we obtain the emission currents and spatial distributions of emitted electrons from a silver nanowire. In c...

background: the induction of cancer appears to be the most important effect of low-dose ionizing radiation to occur in an exposed population. in developing countries 94% of human radiation is from natural sources. in iran some high altitude regions such as, chaharmahal & bakhtiari has high levels of the natural background radiation (higher than the worldwide average). therefore, investigation o...

Fourteen adult frogs including six banded frog, Rana camerani and eight marsh frog, Rana ridibunda ridibunda were collected from two sites of Chahar Mahal-o-Bakhtiari province at the southwest of Iran and then were examined for helminth parasites. Only Dolichosaccus rastellus  (50%) was found in R. camerani, Skrjabinoeces similis (50%) and metacercarian cysts of Codonocephalus urniger (12.5%) w...