context: in recent years, nanotechnology has opened up several new avenues of extraordinary biomedical potential by modulating metals into their nanosize leading to significant improvement in their chemical, physical and optical properties. introduction: the advanced fabrication techniques have been exploited to modify nanostructured materials. the functionalized nanoscaled fibers display vario...

population dynamic parameters of red mullet, mullus barbatus (n=592) caught by trawlers operating in arzew gulf (algeria) in the western mediterranean were studied. samples were collected between february 2013 and january 2014. females ranged from 10.9-23.2 cm in total length and 12-149.2 g in weight whereas males length was comprised between 12.6 and 19.7 cm and weight between 21.3 and 99.9 g....

abstract a major part of iran includes mountain areas. one of the hazards which threaten these areas is the slope instability. each year the occurrence of this phenomenon causes a lot of damages to the slope lands which are exploited by man. one of the most lot hazardous of these instabilities is landslide. the goal was to investigate the causes of this process and the methods of its stabilizat...

the performance of the swat2012 model for estimation of hydrological budget in gharasou watershed, west of iran, during 1995 to 2005 was assessed. digital elevation model, hydro-climatological data, soil and land use maps with their properties relevant to the watershed were considered to fulfill the model. a branch program in swat-cup software (sufi2) program implemented to simulate and validat...