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    A narrative from the right to the city in Iran: the theoretical–practical continuum of urban development in Bandar Abbas

    Many urban planners have used Lefebvre's concept of the right to the city as a dominant approach in urban studies. In this research, we try to draw a framework for the urban development of Bandar Abbas through...

    Mohammad Ebrahimi, Ali Alavi, Abolfazl Meshkini, Hossein Sadri in GeoJournal (2023)

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    Enhancement of superexchange due to synergetic breathing and hop** in corner-sharing cuprates

    Cuprates with corner-sharing CuO4 plaquettes have received much attention owing to the discoveries of high-temperature superconductivity and exotic states where spin and charge or spin and orbital degrees of free...

    Nikolay A. Bogdanov, Giovanni Li Manni, Sandeep Sharma, Olle Gunnarsson in Nature Physics (2022)

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    Destruction mechanisms of ozone over SARS-CoV-2

    In this pandemic SARS-CoV-2 crisis, any attempt to contain and eliminate the virus will also stop its spread and consequently decrease the risk of severe illness and death. While ozone treatment has been sugge...

    Angila Ataei-Pirkooh, Ali Alavi, Mehran Kianirad, Kowsar Bagherzadeh in Scientific Reports (2021)

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    A comparative study using state-of-the-art electronic structure theories on solid hydrogen phases under high pressures

    Identifying the atomic structure and properties of solid hydrogen under high pressures is a long-standing problem of high-pressure physics with far-reaching significance in planetary and materials science. Det...

    Ke Liao, **n-Zheng Li, Ali Alavi, Andreas Grüneis in npj Computational Materials (2019)

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    An Accessible Environment to Integrate Blind Participants into Brainstorming Sessions

    This paper presents user studies done for a system supporting blind people to take part in co-located brainstorming meetings. For supporting blind people, visual information exchange has to be made accessible ...

    Stephan Pölzer, Andreas Kunz, Ali Alavi in Computers Hel** People with Special Needs (2016)

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    Multiple sclerosis and hyperprolactinemia: a case–control study

    Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease of central nervous system which is characterized with demyelination. Prolactin, synthesized in the anterior pituitary cells, has a role in maturation of immune ...

    Masoud Etemadifar, Mohammad Amin Najafi, Mohammad Reza Najafi in Acta Neurologica Belgica (2015)

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    Tracking Deictic Gestures over Large Interactive Surfaces

    In a collaborative environment, non-verbal communication elements carry important contents. These contents are partially or completely lost in remote collaboration. This paper presents a system to address this...

    Ali Alavi, Andreas Kunz in Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) (2015)

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    Reconstruction of Chest Wall Using a Two-Layer Prolene Mesh and Bone Cement Sandwich

    Wide surgical resection is the most effective treatment for the vast majority of chest wall tumors. This study evaluated the clinical success of chest wall reconstruction using a Prolene mesh and bone cement p...

    Manouchehr Aghajanzadeh, Ali Alavi, Gilda Aghajanzadeh in Indian Journal of Surgery (2015)

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    A Mind Map for Brainstorming Sessions with Blind and Sighted Persons

    Accessible mind maps tools are, due to their visual nature hardly available and, if available, they focus on rendering the structure, not considering nonverbal communication elements in ongoing discussions. In...

    Dirk Schnelle-Walka, Ali Alavi in Computers Hel** People with Special Needs (2014)

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    Accessibility of Brainstorming Sessions for Blind People

    Today, research focuses on the accessibility of explicit information for blind users. This gives only partly access to the information flow in brain-storming sessions, since non-verbal communication is not sup...

    Andreas Kunz, Klaus Miesenberger in Computers Hel** People with Special Needs (2014)

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    Towards an exact description of electronic wavefunctions in real solids

    The properties of all materials arise largely from the quantum mechanics of their constituent electrons under the influence of the electric field of the nuclei. The solution of the underlying many-electron Sch...

    George H. Booth, Andreas Grüneis, Georg Kresse, Ali Alavi in Nature (2013)

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    The use of XANES and ELNES for the Characterisation of Stabilised Zirconia

    The electron energy-loss near-edge structure (ELNES) and x-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) at the oxygen K-edge has been investigated in a range of yttria-stabilised zirconia (YSZ) materials. Analys...

    David W. McComb, Sergei Ostanin, Dimitris Vlachos in MRS Online Proceedings Library (2001)

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    Point Defects in NiAl Alloys Under Pressure

    We investigate the effect of elevated pressures on the point defect thermodynamics in NiAl alloys. A particular motivation for this study is due to the expected elimination of structural vacancies on the Al-ri...

    Alexander Y. Lozovoi, Ali Alavi in Properties of Complex Inorganic Solids 2 (2000)