introduction: attention to food safety and health at all stages from production to consumption is inevitable. inappropriate sanitary status of the food production, distribution and supply centers caused food-borne diseases. the aim of this study was to evaluate the environmental health indicators of halva and tahini production centers in the city of ardakan in 2013. materials & methods: this is...

Problem statement: The aim of this study is to create a GIS application for retail facilities planning in Saudi Arabia. Jeddah city has been selected as a case study representing a major commercial city in Saudi Arabia. Approach: The crated application covers several retail planning analysis issues. These issues are divided in to two major groups called the city scale retail planning and the re...

We show that a lower bound for covariance of min(X 1 , X 2) and max(X 1 , X 2) is cov (X 1 , X 2) and an upper bound for variance of min(X 2 , max(X, X 1)) is var (X) + var (X 1) + var (X 2) generalizing previous results. We also characterize the cases where these bounds are sharp.

introduction: in recent years spatial justice has gained special importance among planners and geographers. since the urban public services form the structure, shape and the nature of the physical, social and urban space, inequities in their distribution cause irreversible negative effects on the structure and the nature of city and social segregation of the people, and serious challenges in th...