background:   due to importance and fatal affect of red-back spiders, latrodectus hasselti , a f a unistic survey for presence of this spider in bandar abbas has been conducted. this animal is considerably the most medically importance spiders all over the world. methods: live adult spider specimens were collected from bandar abbas town using hand catch conventional method and transferred to th...

The aim of this paper is to project extreme precipitation events in an arid and a semiarid station. In order to project climate change based on general circulation models (GCMs), we have applied LARS-WG[1] downscaling tool. This stochastic weather generator down-scaled the climate of two synoptic stations using HADCM3 model and A2 emission scenario for 2040. We extracted extreme precipitation e...

background; pollution of drinking water and ice is one of the most serious ways of water borne diseases spread. the purpose of this study was to investigate the bacterial contamination of the ice produced by ice factories in bandar abbas. methods; in this descriptive ,cross-sectional study samples were collected from seven ice factories in bandar abbas. sampling was done by standard method.    ...

The hydroacoustic segment of the International Monitoring System (IMS) currently being installed for use in verifying compliance with the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), will consist of six hydrophone stations and five supplemental T-phase stations. The ability to detect acoustic signals at T-phase stations relies on an understanding of the acoustic to seismic coupling mechanisms....

the source parameters and focal depth of the destructive mw 6.5, 31 march. 2006 iran- silakhor earthquake, the two largest foreshocks and a major aftershock are determined using broadband data from a seismic network in iran based on a time-domain linear moment tensor inversion. the earthquakes occurred in the zagros suture zone in western iran. waveform inversion of the selected events estimate...

in the residential area of the north coast of the persian gulf, consumption of fish is a possible source of exposure to heavy metals and other pollutants, all of which may act as potential risk factors for serious syndromes and fatal diseases. health risks associated with pb, cd, and hg were assessed based on the target hazard quotients (thq), which can be derived from concentrations of heavy m...

the khorasan region is one of the active seismic zones in iranian plateau, which is located between central iran and kopet-dagh zones. we study the crustal thickness (h) and vp/vs ratio (k) in mashhad, capital of razavi khorasan province by the receiver function method. this study uses teleseismic events recorded by an array of three broadband stations of khorasan seismic network, earthquake re...

In this research seismicity parameters, repeat times and occurrence probability of large earthquakes are estimated for 35 seismic lineaments in Persian plateau and the surrounding area. 628 earthquakes of historical time and present century with MW>5.5 were used for further data analysis. A probabilistic model is used for forecasting future large earthquake occurrences in each chosen lineament....

Right Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.; This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: Abbas Moustafa, Discussion of ‘A new approach of selecting real input ground motions for seismic design: The most unfavourable real seismic design ground motions’ by C-H Zhai and L-L Xie, Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 38/9, 1143-1149, 2009, which has been published in ...