a statistical mechanical based equation of state has been employed to calculate the liquid density of lead, mercury, bismuth and lead-bismuth and lead-lithium eutectic alloys.the equation is basically that of song, mason and ihm [ihm g, song y, mason ea. j. chem. phys.1991; 94: 3839] which is modified by ghatee and boushehri. three temperature dependent parameters are required to use this equat...

introduction: the prevalence of hearing loss in neonates is 2-5 out of every 1,000 live births. global health committee, american academy of otolaryngology, and american academy of pediatrics have recommended that hearing loss in infants be identified, and treated when possible, prior to 6 months of age. this study was designed with the aim to screen the hearing of neonates in mashhad, iran. me...

this paper examines the effect of the poor road transportation network on crop production in one of the rural agrarian local government of kwara state, nigeria. a well-structured interview schedule was conducted to elicit information from 120 crop farmers using a two-stage sampling technique. findings from the study revealed that the poor road transportation network in their area had led to a r...

indoor radon and thoron have been measured in the houses ofmoradabad district, uttar pradesh india, by means of solid state nuclear trackdetectors. radon, an invisible radioactive gas, occurs naturally in indooratmospheres and along with thoron is the most important contribution of humanexposure to natural sources. radon exists in soil gas building materials and indooratmosphere to name but a f...

political trust addresses the relation between people and state. researches say political trust has had a declining trend in iran since the victory of the revolution. religion is among the factors which affect political trust, and has been emphasized in the theories of the classical and contemporary sociologists and social capital theorists. this fact is more considerable in iran where a religi...

with the rise of importance of sport as a social phenomenon in recent decades, more public attention has been paid to the issue of the legal nature of the rules governing social relations in sports. the issue raised above are only a part of a much broader topic that involves questions of relations of a classical westphalian state and changes in the international community as well as issues of t...

objective: there is a large amount of information published about art infants worldwide but apparently the similar data did not published by iranian art centers till now. this study is a comparative study for developmental assessment of these infants. materials and methods: in one case- control study 400 art ' infants have been compared with 420 nc ' infants. their developments have been assess...

using analytical method of usul al-fiqh, the present essay deals with opinions of shiite usulis on this question whether continuity of the previous state can be used with regard to time, temporal affairs, and affairs conditioned upon time. as for the first, we investigate opinions of usulis in this connection first, answer the problem of lack of doubt as to subsistence and that of lack of unity...

the modern state is a renewable and evolutionary phenomenon and it cannot be evaluated so that it has single cause. therefore none of the fields of the human sciences alone cannot fully explain the emergence of the modern state without interaction with other disciplines. political superstructure in various countries, primarily influenced by the social and cultural systems of communities as the ...

in this paper, startup performance of upflow anaerobic hybrid reactor and upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactors in anaerobic treatment of distillery spentwash has been studied under identical conditions of operation. various effluent characteristics like ph, electrical conductivity, chemical oxygen demand, biochemical oxygen demand and total solids and other process parameters like biogas p...