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MOSZANT, MACIEJ (author)
The researched thematic concerns the phenomenon of cross-border smuggling at the mountainous desert region of Balochistan situated in Pakistan. Balochistan is the most precarious province of the country, bordering both with Iran - at the West - and Afghanistan - on the North. The region has been the homeland of the Balochi people, whose...
master thesis 2021
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Dehghanipour, Mohammad Hassan (author), Karami, Hojat (author), Ghazvinian, Hamidreza (author), Kalantari, Zahra (author), Dehghanipour, A. (author)
Evaporation from surface water plays a crucial role in water accounting of basins, water resource management, and irrigation systems management. As such, the simulation of evaporation with high accuracy is very important. In this study, two methods for simulating pan evaporation under different climatic conditions in Iran were developed. In...
journal article 2021
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Joodavi, Ata (author), Aghlmand, Reza (author), Podgorski, Joel (author), Dehbandi, Reza (author), Abbasi, A. (author)
Study region: Northeastern Iran. Study focus: In northeastern Iran, water needed for municipal and agricultural activities mainly comes from groundwater resources. However, it is subject to substantial anthropogenic and geogenic contamination. We characterize the sources of groundwater contamination by employing an integrated approach that...
journal article 2021
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Ranjgar, Babak (author), Razavi-Termeh, Seyed Vahid (author), Foroughnia, Fatemeh (author), Sadeghi-Niaraki, Abolghasem (author), Perissin, Daniele (author)
In this paper, land subsidence susceptibility was assessed for Shahryar County in Iran using the adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) machine learning algorithm. Another aim of the present paper was to assess if ensembles of ANFIS with two meta-heuristic algorithms (imperialist competitive algorithm (ICA) and gray wolf optimization ...
journal article 2021
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Sedighi, S.M.A. (author)
Focusing on the design of large-scale housing schemes, this doctoral dissertation examines the extent to which the architecture of dwelling was affected by the oil-led geopolitics of the Cold War, and influenced by the modernist logic of architectural design and urban planning in Iran’s period of high-modernisation (1945-1979), as Eskandar...
doctoral thesis 2020
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Qasemipour, Ehsan (author), Tarahomi, Farhad (author), Pahlow, Markus (author), Sadati, Seyed Saeed Malek (author), Abbasi, A. (author)
The growth of Iran's agricultural sector in the past few decades has exerted enormous pressure on its aquifers. There is a strong disparity between economic development and natural resource endowments, which threatens water and food security. In this paper, we used a multiregional input-output (MRIO) framework to assess the virtual water...
journal article 2020
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Jahanshahi, Danial (author), Tabibi, Zahra (author), van Wee, G.P. (author)
This study explores which factors influence bicycle sharing systems acceptance as a new transportation technology by identifying and describing their relationships to intention and usage behaviour. Using the latest version of technology acceptance models (UTAUT2), this study examines the effect of Performance Expectancy, Effort Expectancy,...
journal article 2020
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Enteshari, Sajad (author), Safavi, Hamid R. (author), van der Zaag, P. (author)
The endorheic basin of Zayandehrud in Iran suffers from environmental problems, social tensions, and economic instability. Lack of understanding how the water system and the socio-economic system interact may explain these challenges. A system dynamics model, being a holistic simulation tool, was developed for the Zayandehrud basin and used...
journal article 2020
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van Zwaaij, Naftany (author)
This research will examine a design for an off-grid safari park in Iran. During this research different passive techniques from the vernacular architecture will be discussed. These principles will be used to reduce the energy demand of the safari park, since it should be an off-grid park, in order to deliver a design proposal with an achievable...
master thesis 2019
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Pirannejad, A. (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author)
In the age of the information revolution, the Internet can be used to involve citizens in political processes and leads to the emergence of the new version of political empowerment. This article analyses the possible effects of the Internet on the political empowerment of citizens. We interviewed 29 citizens of Tehran to learn how the...
journal article 2019
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Jahanshahi, Danial (author), van Wee, G.P. (author), Kharazmi, Omid Ali (author)
The aim of this study is to investigate the factors affecting the acceptability of a bicycle sharing system (BSS) in Mashhad, which is the first BSS to be introduced in Iran. Given the low usage rated of the BSS, we distributed a survey in all stations. 134 users answered the questionnaire. We clustered the potentially relevant factors in...
journal article 2019
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Pincé, P. (author), Braekmans, D. (author), Lycke, S. (author), Vandenabeele, P. (author)
A total of 119 middle to late second millennium bce pottery samples from six sites in the Kur River Basin (Fars, Iran) were examined to characterize these ceramics and reconstruct their manufacturing technology and the origin of the primary materials. For this, a combined study of handheld XRF and thin-section petrography was performed. The...
journal article 2019
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Sedighi, S.M.A. (author), Mota, Nelson (author)
This article examines the growth and change through time of Kuy-e Narmak, a housing neighbourhood developed in the 1950s under the auspices of Mosaddeq’s Modernization Program. The project was designed by a group of young-leading European-educated Iranian architects that collaborated with the government to develop affordable housing solutions in...
journal article 2019
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Noori, F. (author), de Jong, W.M. (author)
City branding is not only increasingly practiced in cities in established economies, but also among municipal governments in countries, until quite recently, rather closed off from the outside world. One country with a strong drive to engage in urban (re)development in the post-oil era through enhancing its ‘ecological modernization’ is Iran....
journal article 2018
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Jalali, M. (author)
Concerning demographic change by the end of the century the demand on keeping old generation satisfy of their home environment has generally increased. The home which elderly lives in is a home for 365 days and they need to enjoy it in every moment of their 3rd life stage. When people get older they are not more able to be active as they were...
master thesis 2017
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Azizi, Ali (author), Ghorbani, A. (author), Malekmohammadi, Bahram (author), Jafari, Hamid Reza (author)
Although mismanagement of groundwater resources has resulted in their destruction over centuries, climate change is speeding up this process more than ever. On the one hand, urgent action by government bodies is needed to address the challenge. On the other hand, a vast body of literature proves that bottom-up collective action, although...
journal article 2017
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Hein, C.M. (author), Sedighi, S.M.A. (author)
Various constellations of oil actors—including corporations and nations—have shaped seemingly disconnected and geographically distant landscapes, cities, and buildings around the world over the last 150 years. Corporate, public, and popular media have publicized these cycles of spatializing oil. Together, construction and representation have...
journal article 2017
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Arjomand Kermani, A. (author)
Iranian historic city cores are important parts of modern cities because of their valuable monuments and morphology but are also significant because of their population density, location and the major governmental functions they house. Since 1920, modernisation policies and urban development trends in Iran have justified spatial transformation...
doctoral thesis 2016
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Khosravi, H. (author)
The complexity of the spatial structure of the contemporary Iranian city is not only the physical outcome of the delicate interactions between land speculation, topography, infrastructure, and regulations, but it has been also shaped by the overlapping of various historical layers, each of which featuring a project. Thus, every attempt towards...
book chapter 2014
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Masih, I. (author)
This study provides a hydrology based assessment of (surface) water resources and its continuum of variability and change at different spatio-temporal scales in the semi-arid Karkheh Basin, Iran, where water is scarce, competition among users is high and massive water resources development is under way. The study reveals that the ongoing...
doctoral thesis 2011
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