Tourism Development in Historical Textures of Tehran City: Case Study: Hazrat Abdul Azim Shrine Area

Parvaneh Zivyar,Somayeh Teymouri 한국문화관광학회 2019 문화관광연구 Vol.21 No.2

An industrial city tourism that manages and sells various products and experiences for people who have a wide range of motivations, tendencies and cultural perspectives and engage in a dialectical interaction with the host community. The old and ancient texture of cities due to their existence and the presence of historical valuable elements, proper communication position, the main market of the city and its economic heart, and etc. have a unique value and place in the spatial and functional structure of the city. Historical textures with enduring cultural values are one of the most important fields of development for endogenous development. These textures have characteristics and properties such as: large number of buildings, spaces and memorabilia of the old texture so that old town is distinguished from the periphery and immediate parts of the city and surrounding areas. Among the different regions of the country, the area of the Holy Shrine of Abdulazim in Tehran is of the potential tourist areas due to its historical dating and the abundance of attractions, as well as the diversity in its texture. Therefore, the main goal of this research is development of tourism in the historical texture of the shrine of Hazrat Abdul Azim. Descriptive-analytical method was used in this applied-survey study. The analytical method of SWOT was used to answer research questions and to provide a strategy for tourism development. For this purpose, a list of strengths and weaknesses, as well as opportunities and threats was prepared adjusting the strategic factors in order to extract SWOT matrix and provide the approaches derived from these analyzes as solving strategies regarding strengthen of the range. In addition, it can be concluded with a systematic view over the weaknesses and strengths as well as the existing opportunities and threats, that there are more strengths and opportunities available in this field, which must be exploited using the strengths and existing opportunities. The results obtained from the evaluation of the factors affecting the tourism development of the historical texture of the Hazrat Abdul Azim Shrine using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) model showed that the importance of the AHP technique, 6 main criteria and 23 sub-criteria based on the calculation of the relative and final weights among the evaluated criteria, historical and cultural attractions have the highest significance with coefficient (0.199), respectively.

Artificial neural network for modeling the size of silver nanoparticles’ prepared in montmorillonite/starch bionanocomposites

Parvaneh Shabanzadeh,Rubiyah Yusof,Kamyar Shameli 한국공업화학회 2015 Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Vol.24 No.-

In this study, artificial neural network (ANN) was used to develop an approach for evaluation of silver nanoparticles (Ag–NPs) size in the bionanocomposites substrate. A multi-layer feed forward ANN was applied to correlate the output as size of Ag–NPs, with four inputs include of AgNO3 concentration, temperature of reaction, weight percentage of starch, and MMT amount. The results of proposed methodology were compared for its predictive capabilities in terms of coefficient determination (R2) and mean square error (MSE) based on the validation data set. The model finding revealed that AgNO3 concentration content has significant effect on size of Ag–NPs.

Tourism Development in Historical Textures of Tehran City : Case Study: Hazrat Abdul Azim Shrine Area

Parvaneh Zivyar,Somayeh Teymouri 세계문화관광학회 2017 International Journal of Culture and tourism Resea Vol.10 No.1

An industrial city tourism that manages and sells various products and experiences for people who have a wide range of motivations, tendencies and cultural perspectives and engage in a dialectical interaction with the host community. The old and ancient texture of cities due to their existence and the presence of historical valuable elements, proper communication position, the main market of the city and its economic heart, and etc. have a unique value and place in the spatial and functional structure of the city. Historical textures with enduring cultural values are one of the most important fields of development for endogenous development. These textures have characteristics and properties such as: large number of buildings, spaces and memorabilia of the old texture so that old town is distinguished from the periphery and immediate parts of the city and surrounding areas. Among the different regions of the country, the area of the Holy Shrine of Abdulazim in Tehran is of the potential tourist areas due to its historical dating and the abundance of attractions, as well as the diversity in its texture. Therefore, the main goal of this research is development of tourism in the historical texture of the shrine of Hazrat Abdul Azim. Descriptive-analytical method was used in this applied-survey study. The analytical method of SWOT was used to answer research questions and to provide a strategy for tourism development. For this purpose, a list of strengths and weaknesses, as well as opportunities and threats was prepared adjusting the strategic factors in order to extract SWOT matrix and provide the approaches derived from these analyzes as solving strategies regarding strengthen of the range. In addition, it can be concluded with a systematic view over the weaknesses and strengths as well as the existing opportunities and threats, that there are more strengths and opportunities available in this field, which must be exploited using the strengths and existing opportunities. The results obtained from the evaluation of the factors affecting the tourism development of the historical texture of the Hazrat Abdul Azim Shrine using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) model showed that the importance of the AHP technique, 6 main criteria and 23 sub-criteria based on the calculation of the relative and final weights among the evaluated criteria, historical and cultural attractions have the highest significance with coefficient (0.199), respectively.

Cultural Tourism and its Role in Tourism Industry Development : Case Study of Saadabad Historical and Cultural Complex

Parvaneh Azizi,Sima Mohammadi 세계문화관광학회 2011 Conference Proceedings Vol.12 No.-

Museum experts believe that museums and Palace Museums have been established with the aim of training learning collection protect research and enjoyment but in recent years its economic role has become more prominent.Most organizations and foundations are trying to develop cultural tourism in order to confer value to their community in the midst of which museums are granted as one of basic tourism industry componentsCulture and creativity that lies in the museums consign diverse role which is not concealed to anyone in the 21st century. "Cultural Tourism" is known as a growing sector in the tourism industry so the museum can be assumed as active ring in the cycle of tourism industry.Museums in addition to their main task which is the display of history also support festivals and fairs and have modified to one of the most important elements in the tourism industry. Cultural complexes and museums which possess different centers great monuments beautiful nature and large extents can create suitable bases for developing cultural and nature tourism and also with assessment of various abilities and possibilities of cultural historical and service and application of in-built capabilities that lies within these centers attention and attraction of more local and foreign tourists can be obtained.Within this paper to achieve tangible results Museum Garden of Saadabad has been selected as a sample since it benefits from natural beauty and cultural attractions and with method of field study and library the strengths weaknesses opportunities and threats have been assessed by SWOT methods and to provide strategy and elucidations to facilitate development of tourism industry so professionals and planners in national and regional fields can apply it in their planning and development.

Facilitator Psychological Constructs for Mammography Screening among Iranian Women

Taymoori, Parvaneh,Moshki, Mahdi,Roshani, Daem Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 2014 Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention Vol.15 No.17

Background: While many researchers often use a theoretical framework for mammogram repeat interventions, it seems they do not apply an identified mediation analysis method. The aim of this study was to determine the mediators of mammogram replication behavior in two tailored interventions for non-adherent Iranian women. Materials and Methods: A sample population of 184 women over 50 years old in Sanandaj, Iran, was selected for an experiment. Participants were randomly allocated into one of the three conditions: 1) an intervention based on the Health Belief Model (HBM) 2) an intervention based on an integration of the HBM and selected constructs from the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), and 3) a control group. Constructs were measured before the intervention, and after a 6-month follow-up. Results: Perceived self-efficacy, behavioral control, and subjective norms were recognized as mediators in the HBM and selected constructs from the TPB intervention. Perceived susceptibility, severity, barriers, self-efficacy and behavioral control met the criteria for mediation in the HBM intervention. Conclusions: This study was successful in establishing mediation in a sample of women. Our findings enrich the literature on mammography repeat, indicating key intervention factors, and relegating redundant ones in the Iranian populations. The use of strategies to increase mammography repeat, such HBM and TPB constructs is suggested to be important for maintaining a screening behavior, once the behavior has been adopted.

Application of artificial neural network for vapor liquid equilibrium calculation of ternary system including ionic liquid: Water, ethanol and 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate

Alireza Fazlali,Parvaneh Koranian,Reza Beigzadeh,Masoud Rahimi 한국화학공학회 2013 Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering Vol.30 No.9

A feed forward three-layer artificial neural network (ANN) model was developed for VLE prediction of ternary systems including ionic liquid (IL) (water+ethanol+1-butyl-3- methyl-imidazolium acetate), in a relatively wide range of IL mass fractions up to 0.8, with the mole fractions of ethanol on IL-free basis fixed separately at 0.1,0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, and 0.98. The output results of the ANN were the mole fraction of ethanol in vapor phase and the equilibrium temperature. The validity of the model was evaluated through a test data set, which were not employed in the training case of the network. The performance of the ANN model for estimating the mole fraction and temperature in the ternary system including IL was compared with the non-random-two-liquid (NRTL) and electrolyte non-randomtwo-liquid (eNRTL) models. The results of this comparison show that the ANN model has a superior performance in predicting the VLE of ternary systems including ionic liquid.

Deregulation of MTDH Gene Expression in Gastric Cancer

Baygi, Modjtaba Emadi,Nikpour, Parvaneh Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 2012 Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention Vol.13 No.6

Aim: Gastric cancer is the third most frequent cause of cancer mortality worldwide. In Iran, it is one of the leading causes at the national level. Localized at chromosome 8q22, the human MTDH gene has been reported to be over-expressed in a spectrum of malignancies. However, since there is a lack of data concerning with expression in gastric cancer at the transcriptional level, in this study we evaluated MTDH expression in Iranian cases. Methods: Totally, thirty paired gastric samples were examined by quantitative real-time RT-PCR. Results: Although the mRNA expression was significantly elevated in 46.6% of the examined tumor tissues; its expression was low in others (36.6%). Moreover, there was only a marginal statistical difference between the MTDH gene expression of all tumor specimens compared to their paired non-tumor ones and no statistically significant association with the grades and types of the tumors. Conclusion: Taken together, our results demonstrated that expression of MTDH at the transcriptional level may be increased in gastric cancer tissue samples but with considerable heterogeneity. Due to this, it may have the potential to be used as a target for diagnostic/therapeutic purposes only in a subset of patients.

Natural potato or carbon nanorods, spheres, spiral and nanoparticle structures

Masoud Salavati-Niasari,Parvaneh Ghaderi Sheikhiabadi 한국공업화학회 2014 Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Vol.20 No.5

The effect of hydrothermal treatments on the properties of the natural potato was investigated. The natural potato was chosen here because it is not only used for food, but also for other, nonfood purposes. The obtained carbon nano and microstructures with different morphologies and size were characterized by FT-IR, XRD, EDX, SEM and TEM. The effects of reaction parameters, such as temperature and reaction time on the morphology and particle size of products were investigated. To the best of our knowledge, there is no report on the fabrication of carbon nanostructures with natural potato.

In Situ Reactive Compatibilization of PP/ABS Blends via Friedel-Crafts Alkylation Reaction

Mir Karim Razavi Aghjeh,Parvaneh Eskandari,Majid Mehrabi Mazidi 한국고분자학회 2016 Macromolecular Research Vol.24 No.1

Friedel-Crafts alkylation reaction was employed to reactively compatibilize the polypropylene (PP)/acrylonitrile- butadiene-styrene (ABS) blends, using AlCl3 as a catalyst. Rheology, morphology and mechanical properties of the reactive compatibilized blends along with the reference un-compatibilized samples were studied. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) observations showed that blends containing catalyst exhibited an improvement in the dispersion state of ABS rubber particles. The results of mechanical tests revealed that reactive compatibilization partly increased the ultimate strength and Izod impact strength of the blends with a loss in tensile ductility. The change in these properties was explained in terms of different chemical reactions including grafting and degradation. Occurrence of these reactions was confirmed using different viscoelastic properties of the compatibilized blend samples. A great improvement in ultimate strength and impact toughness to levels much higher than those of neat PP was achieved in reactively compatibilized PP/ABS blends containing PP-g-MA. These findings were justified by morphological and rheological analyses. The formation of graft copolymer was also confirmed using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) measurements. The results of impact toughness data were in agreement with the interfacial tension values measured via contact angle analysis. The deformation behavior of the different compatibilized samples was rationalized via fractographic study of the impact-fractured surfaces.

THE LOWER AUTOCENTRAL SERIES OF ABELIAN GROUPS

Moghaddam, Mohammad Reza R.,Parvaneh, Foroud,Naghshineh, Mohammad Korean Mathematical Society 2011 대한수학회보 Vol.48 No.1

In the present paper we introduce the lower autocentral series of autocommutator subgroups of a given group. Following our previous work on the subject in 2009, it is shown that every finite abelian group is isomorphic with $n^{th}$-term of the lower autocentral series of some finite abelian group.