t his study investigates the factors affecting the demand for new residential buildings in urban areas of iran during 1976-2010. the demand function for new residential buildings in urban areas was estimated and then the existence of a long-run relationship among variables of this function was studied using the bounds testing of the autoregressive distributed lag co-integration procedure. the t...

Run-to-run optimization methodologies exploit the repetitive nature of batch processes to find the optimal operating policy in the presence of uncertainty. For the class of batch optimization problems where the solution is determined by terminal constraints, the update of the decision variables towards their optimal values is realized using a constraint control scheme. The methodology is adapte...

ôbjectivity, reliability and validity of examinations in psychiatry have always been one of the major concerns of experts in this discipline. recently, objective structured clinical examination (ôsçë) for its unique approach and by providing the requirements of psychiatric examinations has been a topic of interest. ïn ïran, an ôsçë has been replaced the individual patient assessment (ïpâ) for e...