background : one of the criteria of health equity is having health insurance coverage. construction workers and their families are one of the most vulnerable populations regarding diseases and accidents. thus, this study was conducted with the aim to determine the utilization rate of health services among construction workers ‎and their families. methods: in this descriptive-analytical study, t...

genetic markers are one of the advances which have occured in the genomics era. among genetic markers, molecular markers mainly because of their abundance, are the most widely used them. development of molecular markers has greatly altered genetics and plant breeding. genetic markers indicate the genetic differences between different organs or species. some studies which were conducted during t...

sustainable road transportation requires integration with economic, social and environmental aspects of transportation. it depends on term and condition of each society. in the recent decades, transportation is growing fast in iran and isfahan follows this scenario. the aim of this study is to study the traffic, parking road properties of isfahan metropolitan area who are actively implementing ...

objectives: because of the high rates of accidents, the construction industry has become a hazardous industry in iran and therefore paying more attention is required. this paper investigates safety management in construction companies for improving workers’ safety as one of the ergonomics aims. methods: in order to survey the safety management in construction companies a questionnaire was prepa...

this paper is an attempt to examine, with narrative explanation technique, the notion of the “other” in the history of iran’s foreign relations from the perspective of historical sociology in international relations. it covers the historical period following the founding of the safavid state in 1502 a.d. through the first decade of the islamic republic (1989 a. d.). from the perspective of how ...

complete and non-defecting delivery of construction is one of the important obligations of construction contracts. however, unlike in most of the consuming products, the troubleshooting of construction needs passages of time, since hidden defects appear through time and usages of consumer. although after the delivery of construction the claim of consumer is not admissible, in hidden defects it ...

In this paper we show how a Guessing Game can be reimplemented combining two recently developed formalisms: Fluid Construction Grammar and Incremental Recruitment Language. The main difference from older experiments is that the meaning of a sentence is conceived as a semantic constraint program which the speaker wants the hearer to execute and the use of a simple grammar expressed by suffixes. ...

Methods routinely utilized for detection of phenylalanine in new-born blood consist of enzymatic assays, lacking sensitivity and HPLC assays which are expensive and time-consuming to conduct. We, here, report for the first time, the construction of a phenylalanine sensitive electrode, on the basis of a selective molecularly imprinted polymer, offering sensitivity, economy and ease of use for th...

The early twentieth-century nationalist discourse in Iran reviled, on the one hand, a Qajar hegemony on account of an exhausted “manifest destiny,” and lauded, on the other, a discourse of masculinity that assumed moral responsibility to protect the imaginary “geobody” of Iran. In this paper I examine how this discourse of patriotism resonates through Mehdi Akhavan-Sales’s poem “This Autumn in ...