Scenery, Cities and People of Western Turkestan

petrology and geochemistry of khar-bash (western shahrood) and its relation ship to iron mineralization

منطقه مورد مطالعه در 23 کیلومتری جنوب غرب شهرستاشاهرود قرار دارد که در نقشه 100000/1 شاهرود قرار گرفته است.ناحیه مورد مطالعه در تقسیمات ساختاری ایران بخشی از زون البرز شرقی است . در طی سنوزوئیک این زون به شدت تحت تأثیر فازهای کوهزایی آلپی قرار گرفته و فعالیت های آتشفشانی انوسن در قسمت های غربی آن دیده می شود . از نظر ترکیب سنگ شناسی منطقه مورد مطالعه متنوع و بیشتر شامل سنگ های رسوبی مانند : آ...

Simulating Desert Scenery

An algorithm for simulating wind-ripples and moving sand is extended by the detection of fixed objects. This permits us simulation and animation of sand interacting with objects like houses, highways, cactuses, etc. Sand is accumulated on the windward side of an obstacle and the sand relocation and wind-ripples formation is diminished on the leeward side. The wind shadow depends on the object’s...

Effects of PM10 on human health in the western half of Iran (Ahwaz, Bushehr and Kermanshah Cities)

Background & Aims of the Study: Particulate matter pollutants have harmful effects on human health and can intensify mortality and disease. The aim of this study is evaluate to adverse health effects caused by exposure to PM 10 in Ahwaz, Bushehr and Kermanshah Cities during 2011. Materials & Methods: In this study, the Air Q2.2.3 model was used for estimated adverse health effec...

People, animals and biosecurity in and through cities

Protecting people in cities: the disturbing case of Haiti.

Humanitarian actors have sought increasingly not only to assist people affected by natural disasters but also to protect them. This paper examines the efforts of international humanitarian actors to protect Haitians affected by the devastating earthquake of 12 January 2010. It begins with an analysis of the particular difficulties of conceptualising and operationalising protection in an urban e...