In the present study, in order to calculate the movement of sand dunes in the period between 2001 and 2010, the ASTER (Advanced Space-borne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) images were used. The training samples were obtained from the field, and the images of the years 2001 and 2010 were classified using maximum likelihood algorithm and decision making tree. The study area was classi...

the wind as one of the manifestations of renewable energies is very important for tabernacle instead of fossil fuels. the sistan and baluchestan province, according to its topography and position is one of the best places to build wind power plant. in this research, for potential evaluating of the wind power plants construction were considered different criteria and sub-criteria in the province...

plants polluted with pb produced by automobiles along the roads and highways have extensively been reported all over the world. it is the most important source of pollution in the environment. this research was carried out to determine the polluting degree of plants along the highways such as: rasht-anzaly, kelachay-ramsar, tehran-karaj, and isfahan-tehran. at each arbitrary point, a transect 1...

Substance use disorder is conceptualized as a chronic relapsing condition where relapse is usually defined as the return to problematic substance use following treatment. An issue of great importance is the identification of the predictors of relapse and the development of treatments that may help prevent relapse. One of the strongest predictors of relapse is craving. The purpose of the present...

background objective: to evaluate the utility of specific cut-off values for c- reactive protein (crp) and immature-to-total neutrophil ratio (i/t) as screening tests for meningitis in culture negative early onset sepsis (eos). materials and methods retrospective chart review of 97 newborns with culture negative sepsis who had lumbar puncture performed as part of the sepsis evaluation in a leve...