© 1998 The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / THE WORLD BANK Paul R. Masson, Tamim Bayoumi, and Hossein Samiei are with the Research, Asia and Pacific, and European I departments, respectively, at the International Monetary Fund. The authors are grateful to colleagues and seminar participants at the World Bank, to Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel and to David Weil for advice and commen...

Hossein Karamitaheri,1 Mahdi Pourfath,2,3 Hans Kosina,3 and Neophytos Neophytou4,* 1Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Kashan, Kashan 87317-51167, Iran 2School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran 14395-515, Iran 3Institute for Microelectronics, Technical University of Vienna, Vienna, 1040, Austria 4School of Engineering, University of Warwick, C...

| 2017 | 1 Seyed-Hossein Abtahi1,2, Mohammad-Ali Abtahi1,2, Seyed Ali Akbar Mortazavi1,2, Hamidreza Jahanbani-Ardakani2,3,4, Mehdi Mazloumi5 1Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, 2Isfahan Eye Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, 3Medical School, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, 4Isfahan Medical Students Research Cent...

faculty research workshop H.E. Dr. Seyed Mohammad Hossein Adeli, the Secretary General of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), delivered a CIRS Monthly Dialogue lecture titled, “Gas and Alternative Fuels: Present and Future Shares and Challenges.” The talk focused on the dynamics of the gas market and provided an overview of the latest revolutions in the energy sector such as the emergence...

Behrouz Ezatpour, Ali Hasanvand, Mehdi Azami, Hossein Mahmoudvand, Khatereh Anbari Razi Herbal Medicines Research Center, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran Lorestan Veterinary Organization Office, Khorramabad, Iran Skin Disease and Leishmaniasis Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran Department of Medical Parasitology and Mycology, Kerman...

GIS-based ordered weighted averaging and Dempster–Shafer methods for landslide susceptibility mapping in the Urmia Lake Basin, Iran Bakhtiar Feizizadeh a b , Thomas Blaschke a & Hossein Nazmfar c a Department of Physical Geography, Centre for Remote Sensing and GIS, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran b Department of Geoinformatics (Z_GIS), University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria c Department ...

Introduction Degenerative changes of the cervical spine are more common in elderly, but anterior cervical osteophytes that cause problems in swallowing is rare. The most common cause of this problem is DISH disease (diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis). Trauma is also suggested as a potential cause in osteophyte formation. *Hossein Mashhadinezhad. MD Associate professor of neurosurgery Rez...

Samira Sheibani Nia, Parisa Azadfar, Leila Akbari, Farhad Assarzadegan1, Behnam Kamalidehghan2, Hamid Reza Maroof3, Massoud Houshmand3,4 Department of Biology, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, 1Department of Neurology, Imam Hossein Hospital, Shahid Beheshti, University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, 2Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, K...

To prepare an outline, be sure to study the organization of two papers closely related to the topic of your term paper. Set your standards very high and obtain and study papers from highly respected publications (e.g., IEEE Computer for introductory papers, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering for more advanced papers). Summarize the paper organization used by the authors of these two pape...

BACKGROUND Child abuse is a phenomenon that confronts the child, family, and society with irretrievable physical and mental injuries, and its negative effects continue until adulthood. OBJECTIVES The present study was conducted to identify and evaluate cases of abused children at a medical center. PATIENTS AND METHODS This is a descriptive-analytic study. The subjects were all children and ...