Any strategy for economic diversification requires considerable and continuing local effort. No one group can, or should, undertake the task alone. Perhaps local city and county government can serve as a catalyst or coordinator, but many groups and interests should cooperate. Groups that can make important contributions are Chambers of Commerce, downtown development com.mittees, county and regi...

One-year record of organic and elemental carbon in fine particles in downtown Beijing and Shanghai F. Yang, K. He, B. Ye, X. Chen, L. Cha, S. H. Cadle, T. Chan, and P. A. Mulawa Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China College of Environmental Science and Engin...

Welcome to the 12th Annual International conference on Computational Science, to be held in Omaha, USA. This year’s conference will take place in Omaha, the heart of USA, at the Embassy suites – Downtown/Old Market. ICCS 2012 is organized by the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Universiteit van Amsterdam, the University of Tennessee, Nanyang Technological University, and Chinese Academy of Scie...

Parabronema skrjabini is a spirurid nematode of the family Habronematidae that lives in the abomasum of ruminants such as sheep and goats. The purpose of this study was to investigate the molecular aspects of Parabronema skrjabini in sheep. The worms were collected from sheep in Sanandaj (west of Iran). The first internal transcribed spacer (ITS) of ribosomal DNA (rDNA) nucleotide fragments of ...

Hereditary spherocytosis (HS) is a familial hemolytic disorder with marked heterogeneity of clinical features, ranging from an asymptomatic condition to a fulminant hemolytic anemia. Although a positive family history of spherocytosis increases the risk for this disorder, it may be sporadic in some cases. In severe cases the disorder may be detected in early childhood, but in mild cases it may ...

To determine the prevalence of domestic physical violence against women and its associated factors in Sanandaj city, Islamic Republic of Iran, a random sample of 1000 married women completed a questionnaire. Of the respondents, 15% had been assaulted by their husbands at least once in the previous year and 38% at some time during the marriage. Economic problems were the most frequent cause of d...

In December 2011, a 42-year-old male farmer was admitted to a hospital in Sanandaj (Western Iran) with fever and anemia in order to check whether he suffered from some infectious diseases. During the first 3 days after admission, the patient gradually developed progressive oliguria, fever, abdominal pain in the right upper quadrant, leukocytosis with toxic granulation, petechiae and ecchymosis,...

We study the connectivity in vehicular ad-hoc networks in a downtown scenario, where the mobility of vehicles is constrained on a lattice-shaped road network. We theoretically investigate the connectivity under the Poissonpositioning assumption, where vehicles are positioned according to a Poisson process on each road at any arbitrary instants. We find that the Poisson-positioning assumption al...

Clustering is an important part of data mining techniques, and VDBSCAN is a well-known density-based one. VDBSCAN is robust against noise and can recognize arbitrary shapes of clusters. Besides, it works effectively when dealing with datasets with varying densities. A main drawback of VDBSCAN is that it still requires a user-specified parameter K. An inappropriate choice of K can seriously degr...

in order to investigate deformation history preserved in the calcite twins in the hinterland of zagros, several samples have been collected from calcschists of the paleozoic sargaz complex in the faryab area, se iran. these samples are related to f1-recumbent folding and thrust shear zones. the twin width is about 1 and 3.8 µm (thin-twin regime); the twin strain amounts 5 and 10%; twin intensit...