The study aimed to reveal the similarities and differences of tongue merlin with other bird species. Merlin is smallest Falconidae family lives in America, northern regions Europe Asia, Middle East, Central Asia. Since these species don’t have teeth, lips, cheeks, fulfills significant functions related nutrition, it differs morphologically as a result eating habits. In this study, tongues obtai...

Two recent publications report that direct bird-to-bird transmission of West Nile virus is possible. The effect of a bird-to-bird transmission on the transmission dynamics of this virus is studied through mathematical modeling. The model still treats the bird-to-mosquito-to-bird as the main transmission route. The results of numerical calculations show that there are changes in the dynamics of ...

backgrounds: the prevalence of disordered eating behaviors has been reported to increase in recent decades; therefore, scientific studies should perform for specifying psychological variables that may contribute to the etiology of this disorder. in this study, we examined the role of body image disturbance and perfectionism variables in predicting disordered eating behaviors among female studen...

city parks play an important role in the welfare of metropolitan people. higher species richness of birds can be considered as a reflection of the health of the park and may satisfy visitors to a higher extent being in a more natural environment. we studied the influence of area and shape of city parks on bird species richness and diversity. 13 parks from among the 35 main city parks in isfahan...

Bird strikes present a huge risk for aircraft, especially since traditional airport bird surveillance is mainly dependent on inefficient human observation. Computer vision based technology has been proposed to automatically detect birds, determine bird flying trajectories, and predict aircraft takeoff delays. However, the characteristics of bird flight using imagery and the performance of exist...

Hoyer, M. V.,j. Winn and D. E. Canfield,Jr. 2001. Citizenmonitoring ofaquatic bird populations using a Floridalake. Lake and Reserv. Manage. 17(2):82-89. Five years of monthly bird counts on a 2.32 km2 lake in north central Florida were used to examine the ability of a citizen volunteer to monitor aquatic bird populations. When compared to published aquatic bird data, collected by professional ...

objective: the aim of this study was to provide norms of eating disorder examination questionnaire (ede-q) and clinical impairment assessment (cia) for undergraduate women in iran. materials and methods: ‎undergraduate women (n = 516) completed the ede-q, cia, and the binge eating scale (bes). results : average score, standard deviation, and percentile rank of ede-q and its subscale as well ‎as...

introduction social physique anxiety (spa) and obsessive-compulsive disorders (ocd) are highly correlated and have been considered to be important in understanding eating problems. howeverspa and ocd have not been directly studied with respect to eating problems. thus, the aim of this study was to examine the relationship between spa and ocd and measures of eating problems.materials and methods...

Avian Influenza (AI) H9N2 is endemic in Iran; therefore, it is necessary to estimate the disease prevalence among birds in live bird markets (LBMs) and assess the risk spread across the country. Accordingly, this study aimed to estimate the prevalence of AI subtypes in LBMs, bird gardens, and zoos during October and November 2015 in Iran and investigate the associated risk factors. Data related...