as an assessment method of the water resources, water poverty index (wpi) has become an available tool in water resources management. in particular, agricultural water poverty index (awpi) is an assessment tool for agricultural water in rural areas. during the past decades, mahidasht basin in kermanshah province has been declared by water policy makers as “forbidden” basin in terms of water exp...

Institute for Mathematical Research, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia Faculty of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of Semnan, Semnan, Iran Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, ...

Kaveh PourAkbar Saffar1,2 , Nima JamilPour3 and Gholamreza Rouhi4 1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran 2Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 3School of Mechanical Engineering, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran 4Department of Mechanical Engineering and School of Human Kinetics, Uni...

In order to evaluate pistachio contamination to Aspergillus flavus in Semnan province; samples of pistachio kernels were collected from the last processing pistachio stage in traditional and semi-mechanized processing plants in 2010. They were examined for the presence A. flavus fungi. The samples were cultured on AFPA media. All plate were incubated for 3 to 7 days. At the end of incubation pe...

Variation in the currently recognized species, Barbatula nuda (Bleeker 1865), from North China was studied, and three distinct species are identified: B. nuda, B. toni, and B. gibba sp. nov.. The name B. nuda is presently misapplied; this species is distinct from B. toni, a species widely distributed in Northeast China, and occurs only in the Liao-He basin of Liaoning Province and the Tumen-Jia...

The evaluation of vegetation covers using conventional methods is difficult over arid areas due to several reasons such as lack of the suitable roads to these regions. Moreover, this task is time-consuming. For these reasons, remote sensing has been considered as an economic alternative for conventional field work. In this study, the feasibility of using IRS images in vegetation cover evaluatio...