Allochthonous masses are common structures in Zagros fold-thrust belt. They are generally considered as collapse structures formed by the influence of gravity and in rock units with competency contrast. However, large allochthonous masses mapped in Dowgonbadan area in Dezful Embayment near the Mountain Front Fault (MFF) of Zagros show characteristics different from the belt common collapse structures. In this paper, the influences of both gravity and thrusting on development of these masses are presented. Evidences such as the volume of the masses, the greater spacing between the masses and their origin, and the occurrence of crushed zone on the base of the masses are considered as criteria to separate these masses from common collapse structures and are classified as thrust related collapse structures. Thus, thrust faults as well as gravity are proposed as the main features controling the development of these types of collapse structures in the Zagros.

Structures in fold-thrust belts such as Zagros which are developing mainly along the belt strike often terminate at the transverse structures. The Zagros Mountain Front Fault has cut and displace at different parts by transverse structures. At Dowgonbadan area this fault is intersected by the Kharg-Mish transverse structure. The Mish anticline has transported fault propagation geometry and located on hanging wall of the Mountain front fault. The anticline plunges and rotates when it reaches to the Kharg-Mish transverse fault to the west. In the fault footwall, however, the Dil, Pahn, Sarab and Jafarabad anticlines have rounded geometry and low amplitude show characteristics of the Dezful Embayment zone folds.The Dil and Pahn anticlines with bifurcate geometry and outcrop of Asmari Formation develop parallel to the frontal ramp strike and show footwall anticlines that propagated from the frontal ramp at Dashtak formation as delay structures with respect to the hanging wall structures.The Kharg-Mish fault identify as a lateral ramp on the surface by termination of longitudinal structures and at the depth with thickness and facies changes of the Ilam Formation. The structural characteristics of the Dowghonbadan area in the Zagros Fold-Thrust Belt are analyzed as the interaction of the Mountain Front fault and the Kharg-Mish transverse fault as the frontal and lateral ramps, respectively.

An engineering method has been developed for the prediction of aerodynamic heating of hypersonic bodies. This method is capable of rapidly predicting the heat flux in the leeward region. This is achieved through the determination of the streamlines in the leeward region. The modified form of Maslen’s second order relation is employed, which calculates the pressure in the shock layer explicitly. The inviscid outer flow within the shock layer is solved first. The calculated solution is then used to determine the flow properties at the boundary layer edge and the orientation of the surface streamlines. Boundary layer equations, written in the streamline coordinates, are integrated along the surface to obtain the rate of heat transferred to the body surface. The present method is an inverse method in which the body shape is obtained according to the shape of the shock. In general, inviscid-boundary layer engineering methods accurately calculate the orientation of streamlines in the windward region only, and therefore they are not usually applicable in the leeward region. In the present study, a new method is proposed to determine the orientation of the surface streamlines in the leeward region. Using the present technique, three-dimensional hypersonic flow is solved fast and easy all around a cone. The obtained results show that the corrections presented in this study excellently extend the application of the method to the leeward region.

Application of the network equivalent concept for external system representation for power system transient analysis is well known. However، the challenge to utilize an equivalent network، approximated by a rational function، is to guarantee the passivity of the corresponding model. In this regard، special techniques are required to enforce the passivity of the equivalent model through a post processing approach that minimizes its impact on the original model characteristics. In this paper، the passivity is enforced by expressing the problem in terms of a convex optimization problem that guarantees the global optimal solution. The convex optimization problem is efficiently solved by recently developed numerical interior–point methods. This passivity enforcement is also global which indicates that the passivity enforcement in one region does not lead to passivity violation in other regions.

The greater celandine (Chelidonium majus L.) contains important alkaloids such as Sanguinarine. Sanguinarine is an active alkaloid with potentially antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory and anti-tumor properties that is widely found in plants of Papaveraceae family. In this research, the isolation and sequencing of (s)-cis-N-methyl stylopine 14-hydroxylas (MSH) coding gene was performed as one of the key enzymes in Sanguinarine pathway from celandine. Then, the changes in cmMSH gene expression were investigated in roots, leave and stems at four salinity levels (0, 25, 50, and 100 mM) in a factorial experiment based on completely randomized design. In the present study, the cDNA encoding MSH enzyme was isolated from root and successfully integrated into PTG19-T plasmid and cloned at E. coli. After confirmation of recombinant clones by PCR, plasmids of recombinant bacteria were extracted and the gene segment sequenced. The sequenced segment had 784 nucleotides with an open reading frame of 261 amino acids which the derived protein with functional domains including helix K region, heme-binding region and aromatic region belonged to the Cytochrome-P450 protein family. In the phylogeny tree, the protein sequence of isolated cmMSH gene had the most similarity with methylstylopine 14-hydroxylase enzyme of poppy species. Mean comparison of gene relative expression showed that 50 mM salinity had maximal effect on increasing of cmMSH gene expression in root tissue. Also, the expression pattern showed that with increment the salinity up to 50 mM, the expression of cmMSH gene increased in leaves and roots, but with increment the salinity to 100 mM the gene expression decreased 35% in both tissues.