The Kor River (Fars province) was divided into three parts and water and fish specimens were collected monthly and the concentrations of four heavy metals were determined using the Induction Coupled Plasma Method. As middle sampling zone was the main entrance and discharges of industries into the River, the concentrations of heavy metals in tissue of fish from this zone were significantly hig...

BACKGROUND Vehicle exhaust is a major source of exposure to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) found in the urban atmosphere. Newsagents usually work close to heavy traffic flow. The purpose of this study was to assess the breathing zone exposure of newsagents to PAHs found in the urban atmosphere of Tehran City during summer and autumn seasons and comparing the levels of exposure in both ...

The influence of cross-section shape on rock stability was investigated by designing a similar model test and numerical simulation using particle flow code (PFC). results showed that the left- right-hand sides entrance are subjected to tension, mainly forming vertical cracks or oblique with large dip angle. vicinity is shear effect overall failure brittle in test. Mesoscopic fractures appear as...

This article analyses the architectural complexes of industrial forecourts that emerged in USSR between late 1920s and early 1940s their cultural symbolic role. The author evaluates phenomenon pre-factory entrance area a global context, showing organisation contact zone factory city had been used Russian tradition eighteenth – nineteenth centuries and, more recently, US Western Europe twentieth...

On the evening of 13 November 2015, three terrorists equipped with military-grade firearms and explosive jackets penetrated Bataclan, a Paris music hall containing 1500 people [1]. The terrorists started a massive execution of the people located in the orchestra pit. Terrorists then moved to the upper circle to take 400 people hostage. Immediately, RAID (Research, Assistance, Intervention, Dete...