The amount of environmental contamination brought on by the careless disposal plastic garbage has increased to 400 million tons every year a global scale. These synthetically generated traditional polymers are not easily biodegradable. This work was therefore undertaken isolate Bacillus subtilis from soil with potential produce bioplastic: Poly-ß-hydroxybutyrate (PHB). Samples were collected va...

Background & aim: Domestic violence is a socio-cultural problem. According to the literature, it has been concluded that various economic, educational, and professional issues have an impact on the severity of the violence against women. The question is whether religious tendencies can correlate with the severity and duration of violence. The present study aimed to investigate the relationship ...

1 T a b l e o f C o n t e n t s Abstract i i Acknowledgments viii Problem and Thesis Objective I Review of Previous Work 2 Multi-Criteria Optimal Design 2 Reliability-Based Design Earthquake Identification 6 A Time Variant Approach to Performance-Based Engineering 9 Seismic Performance Evaluation For Steel Moment Frames 10 Optimal Probabilistic Seismic Demand Models For Typical Highway Overpass...

لما كان الصيام من أعظم العبادات التي يتقرب بها إلى الله عز وجل، وهو الركن الرابع أركان الإسلام، ولما كانت النية معيارًا لتصحيح الأعمال؛ فحيث صلحت صلح العمل، وحيث فسدت فسد وإنما شُرعت لتمييز العادة العبادة، أو رُتَب العبادة بعضها عن بعض، مسألة الاشتراك في المسائل تناثرت أطرافها بين كتب الفقه المذهبي وكتب عموماً، الفروع الفقهية، مما أوجد لبسًا لدى كثير الناس، وكثرت أسئلة العوام للمفتين عنها، حيث يسعى ا...

Background & aim: The reduction of fertility rate in the recent years in Iran may be due to the cultural and socioeconomic development in this country. The present study was conducted to investigate the relationship of fertility rate with demographic, socioeconomic, and religious factors among childbearing women in a city in Easter Iran. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 254 ...