Monitoring Land Cover Changes in Past 32 Years Using Remote Sensing Technique (Case Study: Pishva Town, Tehran)

objective: citizenship identity as it is understood from the component words is a kind of distinction and recognition of intimates from outsiders which has a historical background. meaning of citizenship holds the concepts such as rights, responsibilities and duties, as well as a sense of belonging that in accordance with others and executive agencies will be meaningful and indicates a kind of ...

1 Global Health Unit, Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, Oslo, Norway, 2 Health Systems Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa, 3 Social Welfare Unit, Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, Oslo, Norway, 4 Uni Research Rokkan Centre, Bergen, Norway, 5 Division of Social and Behavioural Sciences, School of Public Health and Fa...


 Located in the Semna?n area (midway between Tehran and Khorasan), town of S?ahmirza?d its neighboring villages are home to speakers S?ahmirza?di, a vernacular sharply differing from other language types spoken but closely related Mazandarani across Alborz range north, along Caspian coast. This article studies S?ahmirza?di phonology, grammar, vocabulary, with look at cross-linguistic infl...

Throughout the world, many migrant and mobile populations are at elevated risk for HIV. Iran has a large immigrant population from neighboring Afghanistan; however, few data exist on the prevalence of HIV in this community. In 2008, we conducted a study to assess the presence of HIV infection among 477 immigrants in a town to the northeast of Tehran using a rapid test in the field. HIV prevalen...

Evidence is presented to suggest that, in three dimensions, spherical 6-designs with N points exist for N = 24, 26, ≥ 28; 7-designs for N = 24, 30, 32, 34, ≥ 36; 8-designs for N = 36, 40, 42, ≥ 44; 9-designs for N = 48, 50, 52, ≥ 54; 10-designs for N = 60, 62, ≥ 64; 11-designs for N = 70, 72, ≥ 74; and 12-designs for N = 84, ≥ 86. The existence of some of these designs is established analytical...

Given that Mandarin is a tone language and English is not, the present study investigated the perception of Mandarin tones in young school-aged children with or without tone language exposure. Mandarin Monolingual (MM), English-Mandarin Bilingual (EMB) and English Monolingual (EM) children aged 6 to 8 years participated in tone identification and discrimination tasks. Tone identification and di...

This study was conducted to determine the impact of education using the Health Belief Model on preventing osteoporosis among female students. This interventional study (quasi-experimental) was performed on 45 female students aged 15-16 years old who resided in a town near Tehran. The females participated in a threeweek educational programme based on the Health Belief Model. The data collection ...