rehabiliating bushehr historic fabric and paying to it as an important urban fabric through increasing capabilities and facilities is main concern. bushehr historical fabric can be the consequence of several factors the most important of which is the persian gulf and its past history as a national one. this fabric, is organic, dense, compact, having its own characteristics. one of its main prio...

Docker containers are becoming the mainstay for deploying applications in cloud platforms, having many desirable features like ease of deployment, developer friendliness, and lightweight virtualization. Meanwhile, storage systems have witnessed tremendous performance boost through recent innovations in the industry such as Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) and NVMe Over Fabrics (NVMf) standard...

John Decker has been studying the form of the contemporary city and the application of cutting-edge digital representation techniques, including film making, in the urban design and planning processes for many years. In this provocative article he challenges us with the need of a comprehensive urban design theory, and discusses some of its fundamental analytical layers: mass, movement, scale, g...

The Corpus of Contemporary American English is the first large, genre-balanced corpus of any language, which has been designed and constructed from the ground up as a ‘monitor corpus’, and which can be used to accurately track and study recent changes in the language. The 400 million words corpus is evenly divided between spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic journals. Mo...

Due to its environmentally benign character, supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2) is considered in green chemistry, as a substitute for organic solvents in chemical reactions. In this paper, an innovative approach for preparation of flame retardant cotton fabric was obtained by utilizing supercritical carbon dioxide with co-solvent. A novel phosphorusnitrogen containing piperazine derivative, t...

‘culture-led regeneration’ is a principle approach to the contemporary urban regeneration process. during last two decades, many of the european, american and even asian cities, especially those subjected to the decline of deindustrialization have adopted the cultural approach as a way of rejuvenating their economical mechanisms and giving a better image to their global spectators. the idea tha...

BACKGROUND Bacteria from the hospital environment, including linens and curtains, are often responsible for hospital-associated infections. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the bactericidal effects of fabrics coated with the hydroxyapatite-binding silver/titanium dioxide ceramic nanocomposite "Earth-plus". METHODS Bactericidal activities of woven and nonwoven fabrics coated with E...