Although the vulnerability assessment of forest parks is used to determine the threats they face, a rapid and holistic framework has not been established well. The primary objective of this study is to adopt a framework for rapid assessment of forest parks vulnerability, examined in Lavizan forest park in Tehran (Iran) as the case study. The vulnerability assessment has been conducted, using th...

Volume 21, Number 9 " Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. It is finally here – Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.  A Scout works to pay his own way and ...

The term "normal values" is seriously afflicted by sylleptic ambiguities and conceptual problems, and it is gradually being discarded from the lexicon of clinical chemistry. The neutral term "reference values" preferable on semantic and scientific grounds, and its use in clinical chemistry is rapidly gaining acceptance. The term "discrimination value" has been added to the lexicon of clinical c...

current societies are not only faced with social, economic, political and cultural problems but also with environmental crises and this forced many social scientists to study environmental values. some previous studies have shown that environmental values and moral commitment toward the environment are rooted in a specific worldview and religious education. the purpose of this study is to inves...

Intrigued by the notion that effective teaching is as much about relationship as it is about ‘technical’ proficiency, the author examines the values of teachers that inform classroom relationships, and poses the question as to whether there are particular teacher values that are necessary for quality values education. This question is addressed by focusing on the teaching strategies involved in...

In analogy with values of the classical Euler Γ-function at rational numbers and the Riemann ζ-function at positive integers, we consider Thakur’s geometric Γ-function evaluated at rational arguments and Carlitz ζ-values at positive integers. We prove that, when considered together, all of the algebraic relations among these special values arise from the standard functional equations of the Γ-f...

The aim of bioequivalence studies is the evaluation of bioequivalence of pharmaceutical products. The products are usually two and basic pharmacokinetic parameters such as AUC, C max and t max are used. These studies aim at investigating the “closeness” of the distributions of the pharmacokinetic parameters (responses) for the two products, which is made mainly by comparing the average values o...

Each person holds numerous values that represent what is believed to be important. As a result, our values influence our behavior and play a role in practical reasoning. Various argumentation approaches use values to justify actions, but they assume a function that determines what values a state or action promotes and demotes. However, this is often open for debate, since values are abstract an...