according to development of displacement–performance based design, there are some studies on different structures which most of them are about regular plan structures. in this research has been tried to review the frame steel structures designed based on 2800 standard of iran to achieve the designed structures performance level to find how much function levels it covers in earth quake. to show ...

the most urgent public health problem today is to devise effective strategies to minimize the destruction caused by the aids epidemic. mathematical models based on the underlying transmission mechanisms of the aids virus can help the medical/scientific community understand and anticipate its spread in different populations and evaluate the potential effectiveness of different approaches for bri...

this experimental study examined the effectiveness of using focused and unfocused tasks on iranianintermediate efl learners’ performance in producing noun, adjective, and adverb clauses. in addition,the aim of this study was to explore the effects of form-focused instruction and the feedback studentsreceived from their teacher after doing focused grammar tasks. data consisted of the scores ofth...

in this paper, two new cascaded inverters are proposed, by using the series connection of new submultilevel inverters. each of the proposed submultilevel inverters consists of three batteries and eight power switches. four algorithms are presented to determine the voltages of these batteries for each of the proposed structures. in this study the comparison between the proposed structures with c...

Alternative splicing of mouse beta3-adrenoceptor transcripts produces an additional receptor isoform (beta3b-adrenoceptor) with a C terminus comprising 17 amino acids distinct from the 13 in the known receptor (beta3a-adrenoceptor). We have shown that the beta3b-adrenoceptor couples to both Gs and Gi, whereas the beta3a-adrenoceptor couples only to Gs. To define the regions involved in this dif...

Hypoglycemic encephalopathy (HE) is caused by a lack of glucose availability to neuronal cells, and no neuroprotective drugs have been developed as yet. Studies on the pathogenesis of HE and the development of new neuroprotective drugs have been conducted using animal models such as the hypoglycemic coma model and non-coma hypoglycemia model. However, both models have inherent problems, and est...

abstract rockfill dams are a type of hydraulic control structures used to protect river bed in cases where a considerable reservoir volume is available behind these structures; it could mitigate the floods and provide a gradual depletion of incoming volume of water so that the discharge passing downstream is decreased. one of the main issues on utilizing rockfill dams is to keep its permeabilit...

the present study presents an algorithm that models uncertainties at the structural component level to estimate the performance reliability of rc structures. the method calculates the performance reliability using a systemic approach and incorporates the improved response surface method based on sampling blocks using the first-order reliability method and conditional reliability indices. the re...