Abstract Life satisfaction is one of the most relevant indicators psychological health. The present study aimed at extending previous research on life by examining its antecedents for men and women in five countries (e.g., Italy, Poland, Romania, UK, Iran), with different levels gender equality, according to Global Gender Gap Index. Besides traditional variables (i.e., age, self-esteem income),...

This study is an attempt to develop an integrated methodology to predict the impact of the Caspian Sea on flooding using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and hydrodynamic modeling. A rise in the sea level might lead to major flooding events, and have a severe impact on the spatial development of cities and regions. The feasibility of simulating a flood event along a drain channel is evaluat...

every year, millions of moslems depart to saudi arabia from more than one hundred countries around the world for paying to hajj precept. high percentages of these pilgrims suffer from an influenza-like illness (ili). this study was designed and conducted on 32370 iranian pilgrims (36% of total number of iranian pilgrims) to evaluate the incidence of the illness and determination of influenza va...

Petroleum-based polymers have a wide range of uses in the packaging industry, including films, food packaging, rigid containers, foamed medical products, etc. This study focuses on improving properties polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) based material systems, one most popular water-soluble biopolymers, to reduce waste petroleum-based plastics, which are widely used. Polyvinyl nanocomposite films containi...

Several traversable wormholes (T-WHs) of the Morris-Thorne type have been presented as exact solutions Einstein-nonlinear electrodynamics gravity, e.g., [A. V. B. Arellano et al., Gen. Relativ. Gravit. 41, 2561 (2009); K. A. Bronnikov, Int. J. Mod. Phys. D 27, 1841005 (2018); Bronnikov and R. Walia, Rev. 105, 044039 (2022); P. Ca\~nate N. Breton, 98, 104012 Classical Quantum Gravity 37, 055007 ...

Note In 1979, a large molecular weight complex composed of adenosine deaminase (ADA) were reported to be found as an adenosine deaminase-binding protein (ADBP), also known as adenosine deaminase complexing protein-2 (ADCP2). In 1993, this adenosine deaminase-binding protein is determined to be identical to CD26, a T-cell activation molecule and a 110-kD glycoprotein that is present also on epit...