the present paper studies the objectives and functions of constructing the new towns before and after the revolution in iran. before the revolution, new towns were established based on political – bureaucratic objectives, for the operation of huge oil resources and affiliated industries, to accommodate the workforce in industrial complexes, to implement the policy of regional decentralization...

introduction. this study was designed to measure the attitude of the medical students’ of jahrom school of medical sciences in basic and clinical stages and the approach they have to their course of study and future occupation. methods. a questionnaire was handed out in which some items such as sex, final high school scores, term average scores, patient’s education and the assigned students wer...

BACKGROUND As the Zika virus epidemic continues to spread internationally, countries such as the United States must determine how much to invest in prevention, control, and response. Fundamental to these decisions is quantifying the potential economic burden of Zika under different scenarios. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPLE FINDINGS To inform such decision making, our team developed a computational mod...

OBJECTIVE To investigate community pharmacists' proposed actions in hypothetical medical emergency situations in South-East Queensland, Australia. METHOD A survey was posted to 151 Gold Coast and Toowoomba community pharmacies in October 2009. Pharmacists were asked to document their opinions regarding the pharmacist's role in medical emergencies and to respond to statements associated with t...

We describe a “cheat” attack, allowing an ordinary process to hijack any desirable percentage of the CPU cycles without requiring superuser/administrator privileges. Moreover, the nature of the attack is such that, at least in some systems, listing the active processes will erroneously show the cheating process as not using any CPU resources: the “missing” cycles would either be attributed to s...

We address the question of how much security is required to protect a packaged system, installed in a large number of organizations, from thieves who would exploit a single vulnerability to attack multiple installations. While our work is motivated by the need to help organizations make decisions about how to defend themselves, we also show how they can better protect themselves by helping to p...

value literally means to assess the worth of something against something else. the importance ofthe assessment of this word in the economic areas in a few past years has led the recognition of urban values especiallyin their historical parts. it is hypothesis that recognition, assessment, and introducing the existing values in historicalcities have a direct relationship with the selection of th...

For thousands of years, the Chinese and many other nations around the world built defensive walls around their cities. This phenomenon is not well understood from an economic perspective. To rationalize the existence of city walls, we propose a simple model that relates the dimensions of city walls to a set of economic variables. Guided by this model, we conduct an empirical analysis using hand...