Constructing houses in the form of garden-house became popular among Statesmen and the privileged class in Naseri period. Iranian traditional houses which used to be formed around a central courtyard, now were organized around a garden. So the transition from houses with courtyard to garden-houses created a new order of relationships between spaces, resulted in redefining spaces and their forms...

in this study the causes of mortality in children less than 5 years of age has been investigated. in this retrospective cross-sectional study, results were analysed by a descriptive analytic method. the investigation was carried out among 597 children less than 5 years including 296 boys and 301 girls. the sample was selected by census method and the necessary information was collected using qu...

health rules are reminiscent of the Regimen sanitatis Salerni. Some of the material was borrowed, such as proverbs from Dryden, Pope, La Rochefoucauld and Rabelais. Franklin continually added and revised, and some of his statements found their way into common American parlance. The last number (1758) contained a series of adages entitled 'The way to wealth' and this appeared even in Chinese, Ru...

BACKGROUND Construction of houses in homesteads and their settings occur in the context of traditional perceptions and practices in the rural culture of Bangladesh. Functional spaces inside and around the house are produced according to need over time. Inhabitants construct their houses with locally available resources and knowledge. After devastating disasters houses are delivered as products ...

Today, there are a few dozens of historical index houses in the city Sabzevar. Reviews show that up until now, despite the presence of their special characteristics, variety and role, there have not been comprehensive studies about them but through the presence of valuable samples from various historical periods (Teymouri, Safavid, Qajar, Pahlavi), their exposure to destruction through changing...

In this paper, we study the incentives for market concentration of (online and traditional) auction houses. Would sellers and buyers be better off if two separate auction houses merged? We suppose that each auction house has a separate clientele of sellers and buyers. Sellers value their (identical) units at 0, while buyers have independent private values. Each auction house uses an ascending a...

With reference to Dr. Newell's note upon the treatment of small-pox by tincture of iodine, in the current number of the Indian Medical Gazette, the effect of its use in a recent case of mine was so remarkable that I brought the subject before the June meeting of the JBurma Branch of the British Medical Association, and have much pleasure in adding my testimony to the value of this method of tre...

In most European countries tuberculosis mortality has been decreasing during the last few decades, but this decrease has not been uniformly experienced by all age and sex groups (Clarke, 1952; Cheeseman, 1952). Generally, old men as a group have benefited least and this contention is supported in some countries by the trends of notification rates (Cheeseman, 1956; Lowe, 1954; Stocks, 1950; Mini...