Urban ecosystems represent the main providers of ecosystem services in cities and play a relevant role, among many services, regulation urban microclimate mitigation heat island effect. The amount, localization, spatial configuration vegetation (i.e., trees) are key elements for planners designers aiming at maximizing climate potential therefore extending related benefits to higher number resid...

Since the work of André Martinet back in the 60’s [7], the notion of ‘economy’ has been accepted as one of the main principles underlying the organization of phonological inventories (hereafter PI). This principle, also named MUAF (‘Maximal Use of Available Features’) by John Ohala [8], states that PI are organized along a few phonetic dimensions that they tend to maximize in terms of number of...

in order to identifying factors affecting milled rice breakage losses in guilan province, a research was conducted based on the descriptive survey with association of 75 rice mill owner in guilan province. factors affecting milled rice breakage losses were recognized with the delphi technique. in this regard, a descriptive questionnaire with an open-ended question was distributed among 5 rice m...