this paper presents the results of engineering geological studies of rock blocks along a road tunnel in nw iran. the tunnel is to cross the western alborz mountain range through 530 m in length with 11.2 m span and 8 m height. eocene tuffs and andesites crop out in whole of the tunnel route. numerical analyses are done using, a 3d stability analysis and visualization program, called unwedge tha...

tick-borne relapsing fever is an endemic disease in some parts of iran. borellia persica , the most common cause of this disease in iran, has a wide geographic distribution and is present in alborz and zagros mountain chains. here we report a 16–year-old male patient who presented with two episodes of fever within 15 days. he had a history of few overnight stays in a cave of mountainous area in...

This study provides a multi-disciplinary overview of the seismology and geodetic data with tectonics analysis in order to provide an evaluation stress trajectories, probabilistic fault rupture hazard assessment. Based on different scenarios obtained from comparison several overviews their interpretation, we investigated kinematics active structural zones. In this study, magnitudes directions se...

AUTHORS Vanessa VIEIRA / CICECO AVEIRO INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS, UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO; ASSOCIATE LABORATORY LSRE-LCM, POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF BRAGANÇA; CIMO MOUNTAIN RESEARCH CENTER, POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF BRAGANÇA, CICECO AVEIRO INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS, DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY, CAMPUS UNIVERSITÁRIO DE SANTAGO, AVEIRO Olga FERREIRA / ASSOCIATE LABORATORY LSRE-LCM, POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF BRAGA...

In this paper, we describe an automatic people-counting system based on a wireless sensor network at a mountain area. Several people-counting systems have been proposed separately. However, these systems are not suitable to a place such as the mountain area because of a few problems. In this paper, we develop a system which can count the number of visiting people and sense environment informati...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Studies of local floral adaptation in response to geographically divergent pollinators are essential for understanding floral evolution. This study investigated local pollinator adaptation and variation in floral traits in the rewarding orchid Gymnadenia odoratissima, which spans a large altitudinal gradient and thus may depend on different pollinator guilds along this gradi...