background and aim: traffic accident is one of the main causes of mortality in iran. the damage and injury caused by these accidents threatens human societies severely. rural accidents are often more severe and show harsher consequences because the operational speed is higher on rural roads and highways. world statistics presented by world health organization (who) reveal that about 25 percent ...

desertification refers to land degradation phenomenon in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas, resulting from various factors including climate variation and human activities. for evaluation and mapping of desertification many research have been conducted leading to regional and local models. in this research, among different existing methods imdpa was selected and desertification intensity ...

Three distinctive doping effects to modify the electronic and geometric properties of Pd nanocrystals for HCOOH decomposition to H2/CO2 are presented: Bi atoms take preferable residence on higher index sites, which leads to a reduction in HCOOH dehydration; Te atoms dwell favourably on terrace sites, which reduces the rate of dehydrogenation; Ag atoms, without site specificity, induce strong el...

the deleterious effects of salinity on plant growth and development are associated with the imbalance ion in plant, decreased k+ and increased na+, and ultimately yield loss. in order to evaluate the effects of salinity, 41 bread wheat varieties (trticum aestivum l.) were planted in the randomized complete block design with three replications under two saline irrigation conditions, 0.631 and 11...

abstract surface soil shear strength is an effective parameter in soil erosion and runoff modeling, and known as soil erodibility index. this study was conducted to investigate and predict soil shear strength in central zagros region using multiple linear regressions (mlr). the study site was selected in rangeland and degraded-rangeland landuse with an area of 23562 ha. based on the maps of geo...

this study was conducted over a three-year period (1998, 1999 and 2000) to evaluate some drought tolerance indices and their relations with sugar yield in some sugar beet genotypes under early season drought and non-drought conditions. the experimental design was a split plot with a randomized complete block. the main plots consisted of two irrigation regimes: non-stress and water stress in ear...