Over the last two decades there has been an increasing recognition of cultural significance rivers, canals and related bodies water residential, recreational and/or heritage spaces located along their banks. These perceptions have led them to be recognised as landscapes that merit preservation, maintenance development. This article furthers research on this area by investigating history contemp...

This paper describes repurposing projects using decommissioned wind turbine blades in bridges conducted under a multinational research project entitled “Re-Wind”. Repurposing is defined by the Re-Wind Network as re-engineering, redesigning, and remanufacturing of blade that has reached end its life on taken out service then reused load-bearing structural element new structure (e.g., bridge, tra...

BACKGROUND Features of the built environment that influence physical activity behavior characterize Active Community Environments. CONTEXT Whether Active Community Environments policies exist in the state of Hawaii's four counties is unknown. The purpose of this study was to provide a baseline assessment of these policies in Hawaii. METHODS A survey assessing policies in six domains (i.e., ...

Babak Mostaghaci1,2, Arash Hanifi3, Brigitta Loretz1 and Claus-Michael Lehr1,4 1Dept. of Drug Delivery (DDEL), Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre for Infectious Research (HZI) Saarland University, Saarbruecken 2Biomaterials Group, Materials Engineering Department Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan 3Tissue Imaging and Spectroscopy Lab, Bioeng...

1 Department of Reproductive Health, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2 Department of Psychiatry, Roozbeh Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran 4 Iranian National Center of Addiction Studies (IN...

1Department of Pediatrics, Nursing and Midwifery School, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, IR Iran 2Department of Medical and Surgical Nursing, Nursing and Midwifery School, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, IR Iran 3Health Research Centre, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, IR Iran 4Department of Nursing, Faculty of Allied Medical Sciences, Ilam Universi...

INTRODUCTION Electronic medical record system (EMRS) is a valuable system for safe access to the patient's data and increases health care quality. Manpower is one of the requirements for EMRS, among which manager is the most important person in any hospital. Taking into account manager's positive attitude and good commitments, EMRS will be implemented successfully. As such, we decided to assess...

Plants are the most common bioindicatorsused in air quality biomonitoring studies because they are immobile and they have more sensitive to the most prevalent air pollutants than humans and animals. To identify the concentrations and sources of heavy metals in ornamental plants of Isfahan landscape, samples of leaves and soil around Pinuseldarica and Nerium oleander were collected at different ...

Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, IR Iran Department of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, IR Iran Research Center for Molecular Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, IR Iran Corresponding author: Mohammad Taghi Goodarzi, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, ...

Abdolrazagh Hashemi-Shahraki, Parvin Heidarieh, Samira Azarpira, Hasan Shojaei, Mohammad Hashemzadeh and Enrico Tortoli Author affiliation: Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran (A. Hashemi-Shahraki, S. Azarpira, M. Hashemzadeh); Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Karaj, Iran (P. Heidarieh); Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran (H. Shojaei); and San Raffaele Scientific In...