quality of urban areas and improvement of it have always been considered as one of the main issues in the process of urbanization. it might be possible to consider this importance as the result of fundamental changes in intellectual patterns during the past two decades in one side and its proposal in all aspects of human life on the other side though this is one of the main influential concepts...

This article takes into consideration a new field of research called Nanopathology and describes the fundamentals of this new discipline. The paper is divided into three main sections: the in-vitro and in-vivo experiments with 5 types of nanoparticles, and the clinical pieces of evidence of the presence of particulate matter in human pathological tissues affected by diseases of unknown origin. ...

Normative cognition – a uniquely human cognitive capacity ’Normative cognition’ is a ’mongrel’ concept covering human cognition of symbolically mediated normative information. Humans have social and cultural cognition of which normative cognition is a subset. Humans can produce, distribute, acquire and implement social norms and values. Normative cognition requires certain cognitive skills such...

as claimed by many behavioral scientists, designing should be based on the knowledge of interaction between human and environment. environmental quality is also created in the context in which humans interact with their environment. to achieve such quality, designers should develop appropriate models for explaining this relationship, and this requires an understanding of human nature and the en...

islamic arts are often identified by their abstract compositions based on geometric principles and spiritual concepts. using artworks from different eras, this paper highlights the presence of a particular model of thought in islamic arts in which the hierarchy of perspectival vision is abolished. the main argument is based on the ability of some artworks to be looked at from any angle while ma...

Facilities for sensing and modification of the environment is crucial to delivery of robotics facilities that can interact with humans and objects in the environment. Both for recognition of objects and interpretation of human activities (for instruction and avoidance) the by far most versatile sensory modality is computational vision. Use of vision for interpretation of human gestures and for ...

how to cite this article: paul sp, ahmed s, painless loss of vision as the first presentation of undiagnosed neurofibromatosis 1 in a child. iran j child neurol. autumn 2015;9(4):58-60. abstract objective a 10 year old presented with painless loss of vision as the first manifestation of neurofibromatosis 1 (nf1). clinical assessment detected diagnostic features of nf1 and magnetic resonance ima...