this paper presents the criteria and applied methods in the screening of potential sites for the wastewater treatment plant of the falavarjan district, northwest of esfahan province. for this the nine parameters that were selected as main criteria, 7 parameters were considered to define the buffer zones in the natural and artificial terrains. at the first stage of the study, unsuitable zones we...

the final goal of all dairy cow raising systems in the world is to use the available capacities and the cooperation of other sectors in order to solve the problems and issues, such as the limitations in time, man power and financial resources, for providing a complete answer. therefore, the need for optimization of cow raising systems by prioritization of measures and plans is the most obvious ...

owing to reduction of sturgeon stocks in various water bodies, artificial propagation has become significantly important for stock restoration and appropriate broodstock selection is vital in this process. selection of suitable broodstocks may influence the quality and quantity of obtained eggs and larva. the present study aimed to examine correlation between some morphometric and reproductive ...

employer organizations have increasingly interested in outsourcing their projects in the form of public-private partnership (ppp) due to various reasons such as compromising the resource limitations, entering new technologies to the organization and reducing risk. choosing the private sector as one of the most basic steps in the formation of ppp is of great importance. the present study aims to...

balance sheet itself does not specify and show all the activities that a bank pays. because banks can do many swap contracts and obligations, exchange, and commitments outside of the balance sheet. to such activities and exchange that will not appear on the balance sheet, are saying off-balance sheet activities. these items are usually reported in the notes to the attached financial statements....

recently, farzipoor saen [journal of the operational research society, 60(11), 1575–1582 (2009)] proposed a method based on data envelopment analysis to identify optimistic efficient suppliers in the presence of nondiscretionary factors-imprecise data. this short communication aims at showing a computational error in computing the value of preference intensity parameter in farzipoor saen’s [1] ...

naphthol isomers were simultaneously and spectrophotometrically determined in wastewater, using a model based on net analyte signal (nas). the calibration method used is a variation of the original hybrid linear analysis method as proposed by goicoechea and olivieri (hla/go). owing to spectral interferences, the simultaneous determination of mixtures of naphthol isomers, using a spectrophotomet...

this study focused on the role of appropriate equivalence selection of colors in the field of advanced pranic healing (aph), based on mona baker’s equivalence, both at word level and above word level. the partici- pants included 40 bachelor’s students studying in the field of english translation. participants received the colors’ translation test (ctt) included in the book “advanced pranic heal...

background: existence or non-existence of adverse selection in insurance market is one of the important cases that have always been considered by insurers. adverse selection is one of the consequences of asymmetric information. theory of adverse selection states that high-risk individuals demand the insurance service more than low risk individuals do. methods: the presence of adverse selection ...