Objectives: In this paper, aging with its different dimensions is discussed. The characteristics of elderly's life in relation to individual, social, and changes meet aging together with attitudes toward it and major components of elderly are explained. Disease and burden of disease of aging as a central to the areas of Health and Health Economics will be emphasized. The influential factors on ...

Knowing spatial pattern of plant communities is necessary to recognition of forest ecology and management. In order to investigation on  the spatial distribution pattern of wild cherry, forest management plan of Hajikola-Tirancoly in Mazandaran Province was selected. The locations of Prunus avium L.individuals with 100% inventory were recorded through GPS equipment in three areas of case study ...

Purpose: Public libraries are places in which people can access information as well as can empower themselves. Public libraries constitute an integral part of modern communities, and this it is necessary to be aware of their service area and of how one can gain access to them. Therefore, the aim of this study is to determine the level of public libraries in Fars province according to the status...

Groundwater resources management is very important in arid and semi-arid areas. Study of spatial variation of groundwater quality parameters have important role in recognition of aquifer quality condition, pollution sources and determination the most suitable managerial strategies. Geostatistical and GIS methods can be useful in this regard. In this article, by using of Inverse Distance Weighti...

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the spatial analysis of drug-related crimes in Iran's provinces. Method: The statistical population of this study consisted of 31 provinces of the country based on the data of 2015. The model used for datat analysis included Prometheus, Global Moran statistics, and Oval standard deviation. Results: The provinces of Ilam and Tehran with Phi values...

The common methods for spatial risk estimation are investigated for a stationary random field. Because of simplifying, lets distribution is known, and parametric variogram for the random field are considered. In this paper, we study a nonparametric spatial method for spatial risk. In this method, we model the random field trend by a local linear estimator, and through bias-corrected residuals, ...

Marketing of agricultural products is being considered as one of the most fundamental and important measures for development in rural environments. As such, the identification of responsible factors for marketing of perishable products namely dairy products could facilitate marketing process and as a result diminish the associated problems in local communities. The identification of responsible...

Background and purpose: Leptospirosis is one of the most common zoonotic diseases in the world. Some public health problems and diseases are directly associated with geographic context of places, therefore, geographic information system (GIS) could be of great benefit in management of such issues and planning to control the spread of diseases. The aim of this study was to investigate the spatia...