BACKGROUND A few elements of soil are radioactive. Soil can transfer radionuclide into plants feeding human. Sometimes their levels are as high as to be concern of human healthy. Rice has an important share for Iranian foods especially in north of Iran. Therefore we decided to obtain radionuclides concentration emitting γ rays in Lahijan City (Northern Iran) rice fields using γ spectroscopy. ...

Urban green spaces provide a context where constant association with these spaces can result in reducing the incidence or diminishing the effect of many diseases. Different studies assessed the relationship between using urban green spaces and health benefits considering influential quantitative aspects. This research tries to look differently at this issue by connecting the urban green spaces ...

This research was performed to determine the efficiency effect of sedimentary environment of Kerman City area on soil structure bycomparing natural and reconstituted consolidation curves. In this regard, four different criteria such as sensitivity strength, stresssensitivity, Schmertman criteria and the result of the uniaxial compression test were used. The base of these criteria is to compare ...

This study summarizes more than a decade of research on how well neighborhood parks in Los Angeles support physical activity. Between 2003 and 2015, researchers at the RAND Corporation studied 83 parks in the city of Los Angeles, conducting thousands of observations and fielding nearly 28,000 surveys of park users and local residents. About half of all residents said that they used their neighb...

This position paper presents the preliminary design insights for ParkPal — an interactive system for supporting social running route planning in a city park. Based on our previous research efforts in augmenting the experiences of runners and ad-hoc multi-device interactive spaces, we propose a system composed of multiple station deployed in a city park. The stations contain tablet computers tha...

The International Pachyonychia Congenita Consortium (IPCC) was founded in 2004 in Park City, Utah, USA. Its goal is to find a cure for pachyonychia congenita, a rare keratinizing disorder. From February 14th–17th, 2013, the group convened in Park City for their tenth annual meeting. The 2013 meeting focused on how to best move forward with clinical trials and on learning from work in other scie...

1 Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, 2 Geography Department, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, 3 National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, 4 Department of Geology, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, United States, 5 Institute for Marine and Atm...

Improving efficiency of city services and facilitating a more sustainable development of cities are the main drivers of the smart city concept. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) play a crucial role in making cities smarter, more accessible and more open. In this paper we present a novel architecture exploiting major concepts from the Future Internet (FI) paradigm addressing the c...

In the latest years the wind energy sector experienced an exponential growth all over the world. What started as a deployment of onshore projects, soon moved to offshore and, more recently to the urban environment within the context of smart cities and renewable micro-generation. However, urban wind projects using micro turbines do not have enough profit margins to enable the setup of comprehen...