Editorial: A new source of inspiration

Nature as a Source of Inspiration of Architectural Conceptual Design

From the beginning of creation, human being was surrounded by nature. Everything in nature is well organized and in harmony with the other parts of it. Through the history, nature has been always a source of inspiration for the human begin in different aspects of their life. Architecture as one of the remarkable features in every society cannot be separated from nature. In architecture design...

EDITORIAL - A new trend to Rehabilitation

Current understanding of disability and impairment has led to new approaches in Rehabilitation. In this issue of Iranian Rehabilitation Journal, a variety of articles introduces a new trend in rehabilitation. "Emotion pitch" of each vowel sound and Percentage of vowel correct is the subject which Talie Zarifian and her colleagues discussed in their article. Persian speaking children can get ben...

Artificial lungs: a new inspiration.

An estimated 16 million Americans are afflicted with some degree of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), accounting for 100,000 deaths per year. The only current treatment for chronic irreversible pulmonary failure is lung transplantation. Since the widespread success of single and double lung transplantation in the early 1990s, demand for donor lungs has steadily outgrown the supply. ...

The Viewpoint of IJMS New Editorial Board

A new editorial board for a new editorial period

Two years after launch, Microbial Cell Factories has completed the first period of its editorial life as an Open Access journal, by publishing scientifically sound Research papers and Reviews. To start a new and more dynamic stage, a new editorial board http://www.microbialcellfac tories.com/edboard/ has been configured by joining thirty-one experts from twelve different countries, with differe...