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Sediment management strategies are a key requirement in developing countries including Iran because of the limited resources available. These targeting however hampered by the lack of reliable information on catchment sediment sources. This paper reports the results of using a quantitative composite ?ngerprinting technique to estimate the relative importance of the primary potential sources within the Amrovan and Royan catchments in Semnan Province, Iran. Fifteen tracers were first selected for tracing and samples were analyzed in the laboratory for these parameters. Statistical methods were applied to the data including Nonparametric Kruskal-Wallis test and Discriminant Function Analysis (DFA). For the Amrovan catchment three parameters (N, Cr and Co) were found to be not significant in making the discrimination. The optimum fingerprint, comprising C, P, Kaolinite and K was able to distinguish correctly 100% of the source material samples. For the Royan catchment, all of the 15 properties were able to distinguish between the six source types and the optimum fingerprint provided by stepwise DFA (Chlorite, XFD, N and C) correctly classifies 92.9% of the source material samples. The mean contributions from each sediment source obtained by multivariate mixing model varied at two catchments. For the Amrovan catchment Upper Red Formation was the main sediment sources as this sediment source approximately supplied 36% of the reservoir sediment whereas the dominant sediment source For the Royan catchment was from Karaj formation that supplied 33% of the reservoir sediments. Results indicated that the source ?ngerprinting approach appears to work well in the study catchments and to generate reliable results.

The dependency of neutron self-shielding factor on neutron field and sample size in large sample neutron activation analysis was experimentally assessed for powdered leaves samples up to 5 g in mass. The measurements of the neutron flux depression inside the samples were used in determining the neutron self-shielding factor. The experimental results agreed with the theoretical estimation that neutron self-shielding factor is dependent on neutron flux level and sample size. Neutron self-shielding was found to increase with decreasing neutron flux level and increasing sample size and vice versa.

In this paper, we propose an integrated face recognition system that is robust against facial expressions by combining information from the computed intra-person optical flow and the synthesized face image in a probabilistic framework. Making recognition more reliable under uncontrolled lighting conditions is one of the most important challenges for practical face recognition systems. We tackle this by combining the strengths of robust illumination normalization. Our experimental results show that the proposed system improves the accuracy of face recognition from expressional face images and lighting variations.

Floristic studies are fundamental for the applied sciences such as rangeland management and conservation. Unique ecological and climatic conditions in the Tang Soulak Protected Area make it a remarkable habitat for the floristic studies. The purpose of this study was to determine floristic composition and their chorology carrying a central importance in vegetation description and analysis. Therefore, 50 quadrats (100 m2) were located according to the nature of vegetation. The species and their abundance-dominance were recorded. 70 plant species, belonging to 21 families, were identified. Plant classification, based on Raunkiaer’s life forms revealed Hemicryptophytes as the most abundant (46% of total) species. Therophytes, Phanerophytes and Chamaephytes contained 26, 12 and 4 percents of total plant species, respectively. Chorological characteristics of the plant species showed, about 66% of the total plant species in Tang Soulak area were belonged to the Irano-Turanian Chorotype.

An elderly lady came to our gynaecology clinic with foul smelling vaginal discharge since 2 years. It was a case of retained foreign body in vagina for 6 years, a wood apple was inserted to reduce uterine prolapsed. The is rare presentation now a days.

The preparations available in the market for the treatment diseases have several disadvantages like greasiness, inconvenient to store and requires applicator or use of fingertip, which may lead to contamination. Therefore, it was found essential to find an alternative to counter all the above disadvantages effectively and hence in the present work, formulation and development of medicated derma sticks has been planned with the drug, salicylic acid that has keratolytic activity. The preparation and characterization of medicated sticks was carried out in four phases. Phase I studies includes optimization of non medicated sticks using the ointment bases with varied concentrations of waxes which is done by measuring the parameters like weight, thickness and length. From these parameters optimized formula is screened out. Phase II studies involves incorporation of medicament in the optimized formula by heating and congealing process. Phase III studies includes characterization of prepared medicated sticks for weight variation, thickness, length, size, shape and drug content uniformity. Phase IV studies involves in vitro drug diffusion studies by using prehydrated cellophane membrane for 160 minutes in pH 7.4 phosphate buffer showed an excellent drug release. Primary skin irritation studies carried out on guinea pigs, showed no sensitization and edema on skin after 72 hrs of application. Stability studies conducted for a period of 3 weeks and FT-IR Spectral analysis conducted. The results of present study revealed that the prepared medicated sticks of salicylic acid are convenient, equally effective, without any contamination chances on application and free from skin irritation.

Bhubaneswar before becoming the capital of Orissa in 1948 had been a temple town with series of ancient sandstone temples, heritage ponds and water tanks. Now Bhubaneswar is one of the modern well-planned cities with broad avenues, planned habitation, institutional, commercial and industrial areas. But still it gets the prestige of the temple town due to large number of temples and natural lakes located in the old town area. The old town area has tremendous architectural, historical and cultural values which need to be protected Now-a-days the process of urbanization and socio-cultural change started with increase in population. Here the question is how to conserve the historical area and its natural heritage. Bindusagar is one of the natural heritage and holy lakes in Old Bhubaneswar. The lake is surrounded by many temples and monuments. The lake receives wastewater and sewage from the surrounding buildings, flowers and offerings from the temples, and other wastes from the ghats. The lake is highly degraded and its water is unsuitable for pilgrims and local residents for bathing or any other religious activity. This paper highlights the proposal for conservation and rejuvenation of the Bindusagar Lake located near the famous Lingaraja Temple of Old Bhubaneswar.

Agriculture remains the main source of livelihood for more than 2.6 billion people in the world; the majority of them are located in developing countries. Rising incomes, urbanization and shifting consumption patterns have increased agricultural production in most areas of the world. However, despite fabulous increase in agricultural production per capita in every country of world, major distributional inequalities in access of agro-based food are already persisting. At the same time, according to the millennium ecosystem assessment predicts that prospect of providing sufficient agro-based food to sustain another 2 billion people by 2020 to food secure if the productivity of agricultural production systems cannot keep pace with this demand. As these systems are under increasing pressure to meet the growing need for food, so it is also vital that the environmental challenges associated with agricultural production are addressing effectively to combat water pollution, pesticide use, land degradation and greenhouse gas emissions etc.

In this brief, a reconfigurable IDCT architecture is designed for multistandard inverse transform. The proposed architecture is used in multistandard decoder of MPEG-2, MPEG-4 ASP, H.264/AVC and VC-1. Two circuits share strategies, factor share (FS) and adder share (AS), are applied to the inverse transform architecture for saving its circuit resource.

The traditional structure of Iranian society and its values and cultural interaction have determined the marginal status of women. In vicinity of this traditional society, also Arab community woman has not been attended, so that they have been considered as furniture. After the Constitutional (Mashrooteh) Revolution in Iran and The Great French Revolution in Arab world and Napoleon domination on Egypt and interaction with European culture and civilization, these events cause to women notified of their rights and they have had more participation in cultural, artistic, literary and social arena, actively. Nevertheless, intellectuals efforts such as IrajMirza, YahyaDolatabadi and Lahooti in Iran and also liberals such as Jamal Aldin Asadabadi, AhmdAlshedyaq, and RfaahAltantavi and… in Arab society, as well as the efforts and sacrifices of the pioneer has had a significant influences in defend of women rights and their equity with the men and the necessity for providing supreme status. Forough Farokhzad in such society, as a feminine intellectual poet stood against injustice that was inflicted on the women. Beside her, GhadaAlsaman, a Syrian Arab poet with a deep and accurate point views and active participation in writing abolished dull thoughts. Forough and Ghada had rebellious spirit. Their works are actually of type of real feminine sexuality and are similar to each other and also differ in some aspects. While between Iran and Arab – as a vicinal nations – have had closely interactions. The main purpose of this paper is study new and creative ideas through feeling of these feminine poets.