BACKGROUND Pediatric obesity is one of the predisposing risk factors for many non-communicable diseases. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to estimate the national prevalence of general and abdominal obesity among Iranian children and adolescents. PATIENTS AND METHODS This cross-sectional nation-wide study was performed in 30 provinces in Iran among 14880 school students aged 6 - 18 ...

the aim of the study was to determine the farmer's behavior in adoption of ipm technologies in rice growing fields. a questionnaire was employed as the tool of survey. population of the study consisted of the farmers taking apart in ipm/ffs participant groups in gilan and mazandaran provinces each with 3 years of experience in ipm. from among them, 305 were selected as the research sample....

in this research work the classification of the southern coasts of the caspian sea is performed using sedimentary and morphodynamic indices. this includes field study of morphodynamic characteristics of the shore structures. field measurements include in situ samplings of sediments and actual observations of structures on site. these field activities were done along six transects in the dry coa...

abstract many people know the important effects of caspian sea winds and storms on the economy of three provinces of iran including gilan, mazandaran, and golestan that they form one exclusive and extent area which have moderate and humid climate. this paper used a synoptic climatologically approach, which combine a number of atmospheric factors. using daily and monthly winds data including the...

between july and august 2009, a total of two hundred crossbreed dogs in three contiguous littoralprovinces of guilan, mazandaran and golestan were sampled. circulating antigens and/or microfilariae ofdirofilaria immitis were found in 25.5% of dogs in the whole studied area. the highest infection rate wasfound in guilan (51.42%), followed by golestan and mazandaran provinces (15.38% and 7.69%, r...

the aim of this paper is to determine the use of lean management components in the libraries of medical sciences universities in the north provinces of iran. the methodology is a cross-sectional survey in which the viewpoints of 105 managers and employees in different units of libraries of medical sciences universities are evaluated in mazandaran, golestan, and gilan to determine the applicatio...

the evaluation and comparison of somatotype with elite athletes is a method to predict the chances of success in sports particularly in the olympic sport of wrestling. the aim of the present study was to describe the somatotypic profile of 9-13-year-old boys in northern, mountainous and desert areas with a territorial planning approach and an emphasis on the geographical areas potential for wre...

Examining dead insects from different locations in Mazandaran, Gilan and TehranProvinces, specimens with fungal outgrowth were selected for further investigations. After isolation and purification of fungi they were identified as follows:Beauveria brongniartii (Sacc.) Petch*On Coccinella septempunctata, Tehran Prov., Varamin, Ghara-Aghaj mountains, M.H. Ghassemi (IRAN 1025 C). Paecilomyces tenu...

in the last decades, pesticides have been used extensively, in order to control pests and plant diseases, but negative impacts of pesticides caused several environmental problems and put human health in danger. in order to decrease environmental hazards of pesticide, risk of pesticide application should be measured briefly and precisely. in this study environmental impacts of registered insecti...