the dramatic increasing of sea-freight container transportations and the developing trend for using containers in the multimodal handling systems through the sea, rail, road and land in the present market cause some challenges to the general managers of container terminals such as increasing demand, competitive situation, new investments and expansion of new activities and the need to use new m...

the exponential growth of the flow of goods and passengers, fragility of certain products and the need for the optimization of transport costs impose on carriers to use more and more multimodal transport. in addition, the need for intermodal transport policy has been strongly driven by environmental concerns and to benefit from the combination of different modes of transport to cope with the in...

background: traffic noise is one of the major sources of environmental pollution that can cause permanent or temporary loss of hearing in drivers. the purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence of hearing loss among professional long-distance drivers in bandar abbas freight terminal. methods: one thousand long distance occupational drivers in bandar abbas freight terminal not certifie...

recent advances in life-sustaining treatments and technologies, have given rise to newly-emerged, critical and sometimes, controversial questions regarding different aspects of end-of-life decision-making and care. since religious values are among the most influential factors in these decisions, the present study aimed to examine the islamic scholars' views on end-of-life care. a structured int...

the present work comprises the synthesis of one series of diarylmethane dyes containing one or more terminal methoxy substituents together with a variable tertiary amino group. the electronic absorption spectra of the dyes have been determined. as the conjugation of the terminal nitrogen atom improves in the sequence nmez > kairoline > julolidine, a progressive hypsochromic shift is observed