A large number of studies show that uncontrolled and unplanned spatial and functional developmentsin old central districts of large and medium-sized Iranian cities in past few decades have resulted in many unpleasanttransformations. Thus, the historic urban fabrics have gradually lost their socio-economic livability and quality and thisissue has led to urban distress, blight and deterioration.T...

Abstract. Starting from an exact counting of small and positive cosmological constant states in the Bousso-Polchinski Landscape we recover a well-known approximate formula and a systematic method of improvement by means of the Poisson summation formula. This is a contribution to the special Volume published by the University of Zaragoza in honor of Julio Abad Antoñanzas. En memoria de nuestro a...

Attachment to a place is a positive emotional relation between a person and a place that leads to the significance of a place for the people staying there. Several studies have been presented about the sense of attachment to one or more locations around the world that each of them has evaluated the subject from a specific view and has achieved different results. This research tries to assess th...

Perhaps it is because I am not a professional medicinal chemist, or possibly it is because I am a person that prefers the visual presentation of data as opposed to a long list of numbers in parallel vertical columns; either way, the fact is that the conventional structure–activity relation tables (SAR-tables), which have been and still are the essential item in most medicinal chemistry papers, ...

1 Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Shiraz, Shiraz 71454, Iran 2 Department of Material Science and Engineering, WW4-LKO, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Martensstrasse 7, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany 3 Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy and Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Egerlandstrasse 3, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany 4 ...

Background: Staphylococcus aureus is one of the most common causes of nosocomial infections that cause a broad spectrum of diseases. Increasing antibiotic resistance among S. aureus isolates is a serious concern in the treatment and control of staphylococcal infections. The knowledge of S. aureus prevalence and the current antimicrobial resistance profile is necessary in selection of appropriat...

Can Yao,1 Francisco J. Rodriguez,1 Jorge Bravo-Abad,2 and Jordi Martorell1,3 1ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Mediterranean Technology Park, 08860 Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain 2Departamento de Fı́sica Teórica de la Materia Condensada, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain 3Departament de Fı́sica i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Terrassa, Spain (...

Biology of a nocturnal bee, Megalopta atra (Hymenoptera: Halictidae; Augochlorini), from the Panamanian highlands Simon M. Tierney a; Therany Gonzales-Ojeda b; William T. Wcislo a a Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Ancón, Panama b Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y Medio Ambiente, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco Sede Puerto Maldonado Jr. San Martín 451, Madre de Dios, ...

This paper presents the results of research carried out to improve emergency response activities in earthquake-prone areas of Iran. The research concentrated on emergency response operations, emergency medical care, emergency transportation, and evacuation-the most important issues after an earthquake with regard to saving the lives of victims. For each topic, some guidelines and criteria are p...