background : the aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of water ozonation on disinfection by-product formation. methods : experiments were carried out on samples taken from tajan river, mazandaran province, iran. samples of the pre-filtered raw water and from the 3.5-l water tank reservoir (wt) were analyzed for uv-254 absorbance, dissolved organic carbon (doc), hs and non-hs, chlor...

Settings in which independent self-interested agents form connections with each other are extremely common, and are usually modeled using network formation games. We study a natural extension of network formation games in which the nodes cannot form connections themselves, but instead must do it through an intermediary, and must pay the intermediary to form these connections. The price charged ...

feldspar grains, as a significant provenance indicator, of two terrigenous formations from central iran, the upper red formation, and moghan area, zivah formation, are used for provenance determination and the study of transportation and depositional history. the upper red formation (urf) is volumetrically the most important siliciclastic unit of the central iran and zivah formation (zf) repres...

The hydrolysis of cadmium nitrate was studied spectrophotometrically at different ionic strengthsof sodium perchlorate in a wide pH range, 1-12, and at 25 C. Least squares calculations areconsistent with the formation of M(OH)+, M(OH)2, M(OH)3- and M(OH)42- species, which M isCd2+. The dependency on ionic strength in the background electrolyte solutions was taken intoaccount by using a Debye-Hu...

Understanding how cells polarize and coordinate tubulogenesis during organ formation is a central question in biology. Tubulogenesis often coincides with cell-lineage specification during organ development. Hence, an elementary question is whether these two processes are independently controlled, or whether proper cell specification depends on formation of tubes. To address these fundamental qu...