Although Iran has a large geographic area encompassing 13 ecoregions, its simuliid fauna remains largely unexplored. To begin redressing this faunal gap, we reviewed literature records and coupled morphological and chromosomal identifications of material newly collected from 16 sites in Iran. Twenty-three nominal species are now recognized, including new country records for Simulium crassicaulu...

This chapter investigates the growth of the Internet in Iran, the effect of Internet filtering, and the impact on marginalized groups including NGOs, female activists, religious minorities, the younger generation and the increase of the digital divide. Using secondary data from multiple sources, the chapter presents the current use of the Internet in Iran and makes comparisons with other countr...

In this study we apply classification methods for detecting subdialectal differences in Sorani Kurdish texts produced in different regions, namely Iran and Iraq. As Sorani is a low-resource language, no corpus including texts from different regions was readily available. To this end, we identified data sources that could be leveraged for this task to create a dataset of 200,000 sentences. Using...

The evolution of human blood groups, without doubt, has a history as old as man himself. There are at least three hypotheses about the emergence and mutation of human blood groups. Global distribution pattern of blood groups depends on various environmental factors, such as disease, climate, altitude, humidity etc. In this survey, the collection of main blood groups ABO and Rh, along with some ...

Despite numerous studies on the prevalence of temporomandibular joint disorders (TMJDs) in adults, those performed in children are limited. This study determined the prevalence of TMJDs in 9−12−year−old Kermanian boy students living in Southeast of Iran. 240 boy students selected by randomized method and studied through a descriptive cross-sectional epidemiologic survey including interviews and...

1. Dept. of Nephrology, Firoozgar Hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2. Dept. of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy-International Campus, FCRDC, Firoozgar Hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3. Dept. of Nephrology, Firoozgar Hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 4. Dept. of Radiology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical...

1. Dept. of Nutrition, Rasoul-e-Akram Hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2. Oncopathology Research Center, Dept. of Hematology-Oncology, Rasoul-e-Akram Hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3. Dept. of Hematology-Oncology, Rasoul-e-Akram Hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 4. Dept. of Community Medicine, School of Medicine, ...

1 Full Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran. E-mail: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 2 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Industrial Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran; and is the corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected] 3 Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Iran University of Scienc...

Population of Iran as a Middle Eastern country with its population growth rate of about 1.3% has passed 80 million in 2016. Iran has a young population and it was reported that in 2013 sixty percent of its population was under the age of 30. However, due to a substantial decrease in population growth rate and increase in life expectancy, Iran will face an aging population in coming decades. Wit...

The genus Dolichocephala Macquart, 1823 of the family Empididae is recorded for first time from Iran and Azerbaijan, including one species D. monae Joost, 1981. A neighbour-joining tree based on genetic divergences CO1 gene within nine provided. In addition, Oropezella Collin, 1926 Hybotidae (one O. sphenoptera (Loew, 1873)) two subgenus Empis s. str. Linnaeus, 1758 (E. (E.) earina 1960 E. temr...