The many advantages of renewable energies—especially wind—such as abundance, permanence, and lack of pollution, have encouraged many industrialized and developing countries to focus more on these clean sources of energy. The purpose of this study is to prioritize and rank 13 cities of the Fars province in Iran in terms of their suitability for the construction of a wind farm. Six important ...

In recent years, China's commodity housing prices is soaring highly, especially in large cities such as Shanghai. To research the factors affecting Shanghai housing prices, screening variables by the supply and demand perspective, making the variable linear regression by gradually removing the variable method, the results showed that: In the Shanghai-specific context, lending rates and GDP impa...

the prevalence of non-communicable diseases such as hypertension and diabetes including obesity has increased over the past few years in iran. the increase in these diseases has been associated with increased urbanization and lifestyle changes. the burden of non-communicable diseases (ncd) is increasing in low and middle-income countries. the aim of this report is to address the threat of ncds ...

Explaining altruistic cooperation is one of the greatest challenges faced by sociologists, economists, and evolutionary biologists. The problem is determining why an individual would carry out a costly behavior that benefits another. Possible solutions to this problem include kinship, repeated interactions, and policing. Another solution that has recently received much attention is the threat o...

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• United Europe vs. fragmented Bosnia and Herzegovina; • Free travel, mobility of people, goods, money vs. ghetto, siege and divided cities; • Human rights, especially minority rights issues vs. genocide and ethnical cleansing; • Information highways vs. total collapse of basic telecommunications infrastructure; • Revival of multicultural vs. the killing of traditionally the only multicultural ...

The concept of Digital Cities incorporates the need for communicating geographic information. Chorematic diagrams are a special method for communicating geographic information, especially for commucating highly synthesized and aggregated concepts, that used to enjoy great popularity. This report on a dissertation in progress describes an analytical approach towards automatization of chorematic ...

Wuhan and Pittsburgh, as a pair of Sino-US sister cities, are both important industrial cities of their countries in the history. Since 1970, Pittsburgh gradually transformed itself from an industrial city to a post-industrial city, impressively solved its pollution problems and became one of the most livable cities in the U.S. However, over the past decades, which may be called the global era,...

while in the historic urban fabric of iran's cities, there are numerous traditional buildings that have stood up for more than one hundred years, today's buildings, in spite of advanced construction technologies, are not comparable with those traditional ones in terms of resiliency and durability. the sustainable vernacular strategies in design and construction of these traditional ho...

Access to facilities, services and socio-economic opportunities plays a critical role in the growth and decline of cities and human settlements. Previous attempts to explain changes in socio-economic indicators by differences in accessibility have not been convincing as countries with highly developed transport infrastructure have only seen marginal benefits of infrastructure improvements. Aust...