INTRODUCTION Complex decision making skills are essential in numerous domains (e.g., emergency response, military, business), where stakeholders often need to make strategic or tactical decisions on tasks that may be ambiguous, ill-defined, time constrained, and have high stakes. Often such tasks need to be solved by groups of people with complementary skills. The group works together, or colla...

F iscal regime is one of the main differences between petroleum contracts. Fiscal regimes in oil contracts are divided to two main categories namely Concessionary and Contractual Systems. In contractual systems, the main difference between service and production sharing contracts is the way of compensation of contractor services which could be in cash or in kind. In production sharin...

the present article has been prepared based on two field research studies undertaken to identify the vulnerable strata in rural areas of iran’s garmsar and dasht-e azadegan regions2. as will be demonstrated below, the findings of the two studies show that the development policies implemented during recent decades--policies emphasizing strategies of structural adjustment, liberalization, and pri...

background lead and cadmium as two of the main industrial pollutants can cause strong negative effect on humans and animals. rice (oryza sativa) is a plant of the grass family, which provides the bulk of the human diet throughout asia, i.e. feeds more than half of the world’s human population. this study was conducted to determine cadmium and lead contents of cultivated rice grown in khuzestan ...

pathogenicity of wheat stem rust was investigated during two cropping seasons of the years 2010 and 2011. towards this end, 47 isogenic lines of wheat stem rust along with 43 cultivars/lines of the crop were tested in field conditions (natural infection) and also in the greenhouse conditions. the results showed, similarity of pathogenicity for plants carring gene/s sr7b, sr8a, sr8b, sr9b, sr9d,...