the black-ended gall fly, calamoncosissimilis (schiner), is newly recorded from iran. it was collected during the surveys on herbivorous insects associated with common reed (poaceae) in urmia region located in northwestern province of west azarbaijan.

cultural iran is a scope that is more extended than the political territories of iran as a political unit. this concept means that cultural geography(mehdi moghanlo-1383-1) of iran is greater than its political geography which, according to history, has a long history extending west-east from kandahar to the euphrates and north-south from the persian gulf to the caucasus including transoxiana a...

in 2013, during a bioacoustic investigation upon bushcrickets (orthoptera, ensifera) in azarbaijan-e sharghi, north-west of iran, some ensiferans were collected in azarshahr and identified as polysarcus denticauda (charpentier, 1825) (tettigoniidae: phaneropterinae). this is the first record of the species from iran. herewith, several diagnostic morphological and bioacoustic remarks are given.

uncertainty in the financial market will be driven by underlying brownian motions, while the assets are assumed to be general stochastic processes adapted to the filtration of the brownian motions. the goal of this study is to calculate the accumulated wealth in order to optimize the expected terminal value using a suitable utility function. this thesis introduced the lim-wong’s benchmark fun...

asymmetric polyethersulfone (pes) microfiltration flat sheet membranes were composed by the phase inversion method (pim) and were used as supports. composite membranes were fabricated by coating silicone rubber as selective layer. effect of different concentrations of pes and pdms and different solvent such as nmp, dmf and dms effects as pes solvents and support thickness and different coagulat...