Contemporary global movement of emerging plant diseases.

The importance of vaccination in the control of the emerging viral diseases outbreaks

During the past decade several new viruses have emerged  making a  global health threat. The most pandemic threats are due to the  either zoonotic or  vector-borne viruses. The emerging of new infectious diseases continue to  be threaten of public health and the social activities including traveling or trade help to sustain and spread of the viruses.  Developing methods to manage and predict th...

Student Movement in Contemporary Iran; Independent or Affiliated Movement

The student movement is considered as one of the important issues of Iranian political sociology, but its role and its nature and its relationship with other movements and movements in Iran have been discussed. The present article is trying to answer the role and function of the student movement in Iran. Using a descriptive-analytic approach, political currents have become instrumental in most ...

An Investigation of Global-Regional Interactional Approach at the Prominent Works of Contemporary Iranian Architects

Regionalism is an analytical and critical perspective which focuses on preserving special features of place and attempts to fill the vacuum in architecture. Globalization is a complex multi-stage process that causes increasing complexity of time and place, greater awareness across the global and acceleration of cross cultural interactions. Therefore, the present paper attempts to analyze global...

The Challenge of Global Catastrophic Biological Risks

Global catastrophic biological risks (GCBRs) are defined by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security as biological events—deliberate, accidental, or emerging—that ‘‘could lead to sudden, extraordinary, widespread disaster.’’ There are a number of efforts to create a framework within which we can begin to address the almost incomprehensible consequences of these kinds of events. GCBRs compri...

Global Alcohol Harm Network: Struggling or Emerging? A Response to Shiffman