background & aims of the study: drinking polluted water can transmit diseases, so potable water treatment is one of the most challenging and complex systems in countries. continuous monitoring for evaluation process in water treatment plant is important. this study aims to investigate performance evaluation of qom water treatment plant to remove turbidity and coliform in 2005 - 2014. materials ...

background: knowledge production and evaluation are two important functions of health research system (hrs). in this article, we aimed to reveal the correlation between evaluation of health research organizations and health knowledge production promotion. methods: a comprehensive evaluation system was developed to evaluate the academic performance of national medical science universities on an ...

Despite the importance of Critical Information Infrastructures (CIIs) and dynamic ICT-based maritime Supply Chains (SCs) for ports operations, state-of-the-art Risk Management (RM) methodologies for maritime environments pay limited attention to cyber-security and do not adequately address security processes for international SCs. Motivated by these limitations, we have developed and will valid...

A new species of braconid wasp, Andesipolis yanayacu, is described from the eastern Andes of Ecuador. Andesipolis yanayacu was reared as a gregarious koinobiont parasitoid of shelter building Pyralidae (Lepidoptera) larvae feeding on Urticaceae (Phenax rugosus and Boehmeria bullata). These are the first biological observations for the genus Andesipolis and the first species recorded from Ecuado...