BACKGROUND Passeromyia is a muscid genus previously known from the Old World Afrotropical and Oriental regions and eastwards from Australia and the West Pacific. The genus is known from nest-dwelling larvae which may be parasites of the nestlings. This study was aimed to identify of the Passeromyia species in the Iranian Persian Gulf Islands. METHODS The flies were collected during April 2010...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to conduct a review to investigate the prevalence of anxiety disorders among Iranian children and adolescents. METHOD We systematically reviewed the literature up to June 2014. We searched three Persian databases (Magiran, IranMedex and SID) and three English databases: PubMed, Scopus and PsycINFO. All original studies that investigated the current prevalence of anxiety in ...

as much discussed in literature, the creation of digital libraries should be informed by user requirements and behaviors (soergel, 2002). according to researchers, the best designs for children come from children .this study describes how the iranian children use a digital library (icdl). this work was done in order to explore and discover new directions for the development of children digital ...

With a focus on an under-studied group of immigrants in the UK, this paper examines Iranian families’ language ideologies and practices at home relation to Persian acquisition maintenance fo...

the iranian “new wave” filmmakers started to pay attention to social changes during the pahlavi regime. imperial pahlavi successfully suppressed his political oppositions in decade of 1332-1342 (hijri shamsi) and spread a social reform during the following decades in 40’s to 50’s. the iranian cinematic movement that was called new wave by some persian film critics because of its similarly to th...

This paper reviews the movement of open access (OA) journals in Iran, investigates and compares the influence of Iranian journals in terms of citation ranking, using the Citation Indexes of Thomson-ISI. There has been growth in the number of open access journals in Iran. The advantages of open access for Iranian researchers are: (i) provides access to other research done in their research field...

Studying the history of science could help develop an understanding of the contributions made by ancient nations towards scientific advances. Although Iranians had an important impact on the improvement of science, the history of Iranian medicine seems not to have been given enough attention by historians. The present study focused on the history of anesthesia and pain management in Iranian med...

This article explores how the Iranian poet and translator Ahmad Shamlu (1925–2000) reconceives configuration of world poetics. Working at intersection global modernism translation studies, it traces formation a Persian modernist poetics solidarity on basis translations from so-called third-world literatures Shamlu’s political aesthetic traverses national borders to embrace ignored marginalized ...

BACKGROUND To validate the Persian version of the simple shoulder test in patients with shoulder joint problems. METHODS Following Beaton`s guideline, translation and back translation was conducted. We reached to a consensus on the Persian version of SST. To test the face validity in a pilot study, the Persian SST was administered to 20 individuals with shoulder joint conditions. We enrolled ...