versity, Frankfurt am Main. Originally more than 100 abstracts were submitted to the conference, from which 36 were selected for oral presentations and 19 for poster presentations. A number of contributors to the conference subsequently submitted their papers for publication in this issue of Orientalia Suecana, and after the reviewing process, the seven papers below were finally selected for pu...

In this paper, we consider the implications of applying city region concept to a medium-sized and whether such an application spatial governmental policy is appropriate when central in question also not necessarily economically dominant or connected its wider city-region. This gives deeper understanding process subnational restructuring UK state via production regions which has now been progres...

Research suggests a relatively sizable rate of unintended pregnancies in some subgroups of Iranian women, but there is no concise, standard scale to measure the pregnancy intention of Iranian women. Therefore, the psychometric properties of the Persian version of the London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy (LMUP) were investigated. The Persian version of the LMUP was tested on randomly selected m...

OBJECTIVES The primary objective of this study was to determine whether local and imported cigarette brands used in , have elevated levels of metals or not. The produced data of cigarette brands are compared both with each other and with the existing brands in different countries. MATERIALS AND METHODS In present study, nineteen various cigarettes brands were randomly purchased from the comme...

The worth and important Iranian tradition is still unknown in most of the World and there is much humanity life style and building teqniques, according to its natural sources such as Earthen Architecture in different parts of Iran such as Yazd City, as “The World First Adobe”. Having a highly developed technology make these vernacular buildings still alive, by using an incredible use of natural...

BACKGROUND Limited studies have examined the relationship between quality of life and lifestyle behaviors. The purpose of this study is to examine the perceptions of quality of life among young Iranian women and its association with lifestyle behaviors. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted among 391 young women selected through a cluster convenience sampling strategy in Shiraz, Ir...

The traveling salesman problem is a well-known and important combinatorial optimization problem. The goal of this problem is to find the shortest Hamiltonian path that visits each city in a given list exactly once and then returns to the starting city. In this paper, for the first time, the shortest Hamiltonian path is achieved for 1071 Iranian cities. For solving this large-scale problem, two ...