The Zagros orogeny in Iran is associated with two successive geodynamic events during the Tertiary period, a Paleogene NE-directed regional crustal extension followed by a Miocene NW-directed regional crustal extension and a magmatic flare-up. The current study was undertaken to reanalyze previous structural work developed on the extensional Chapedony metamorphic core complex in Central Iran ex...

The project P.A.T.H.S. is an indigenously developed positive youth development program in Hong Kong. In the extension phase (2009/2010 school year), subjective outcome evaluation data were collected from 231 schools involving 89,068 participants after completion of the curricula-based Tier 1 Program. With schools as the units of analysis, results showed that participants generally had positive ...

Model based software development uses design patterns to capture successful designs and micro-architectures. This paper presents the essential constructs of a mathematical formalism for the specification of design patterns. The specification constitutes an extension of basic concepts from many-sorted algebra. The approach can be used to determine efforts for component reuse, facilitate automati...

Nowadays the growth of deserts is one the most important problems in Iran. This phenomenon has many reasons such as growth of population, global changes in the climates and many undesirable consequences such as the erosion of agricultural soils and immigration of rural people to urban regions mainly to the capital of Iran, Tehran. Isfahan province is one of the semi-arid and desert regions in t...

Not many land grant universities have seriously addressed the issues related to the global development of youth. In the United States, colleges of agriculture have a long and proud domestic record of youth leadership development through extension 4-H programs and high school agriculture programs, including FFA. Rural and urban young men and women have benefited from being involved in these educ...