extended abstractthe occurrence of natural disasters such as the earthquake has been threat human life and caused a great deal homelessness and displacement in the cities. in the early stages of dealing with such conditions one of the more important issues that is noticed by the responsible crisis management organizations is the optimum locating for contemporary settlement and organizing the li...

the relationship between age, sex and location of the pateints and the outbreak of acute and chronic cholecystitis in patients operated in imam khomeini hospital of urmia     khalaji n [1] * , abdullahzade n [2] , pourghassem j [3] , maleki m [4]     received: 26 sep , 2013 accepted: 5 nov , 2013   abstract   background & aims : cholecystitis is one of the most common diseases in gastrointestin...

Shear wave velocity (Vs) is known as one of the fundamental material parameters which is useful in dynamic analysis. It is especially used to determine the dynamic shear modulus of the soil layers. Nowadays, several empirical equations have been presented to estimate the shear wave velocity based on the results from Standard Penetration Test (SPT) and soil type. Most of these equations result i...

Background Neuropathic pain is one of the most common complaints of neurologic clinics. Neuropathic pain is common and important and has inappropriate complications, and despite their importance, there is no effective treatment for them. Objective Because of the importance of neuropathic pain and safe and effective treatment, in this study, we determined the effect of topiramate versus gabape...

Lake Urmia (or Ormiyeh) is one of the largest hypersaline lakes in the world and the habitat of a unique bisexual Artemia species (A. urmiana). Despite this, and several other values of the lake, little literature on it has been published. The present paper is an attempt to provide a brief review on various aspects of the lake. Urmia Lake, located in northwestern Iran, is an oligotrophic lake o...

abstract background: herbal distillates have been used for many centuries as drinks, flavors, and herbal medicine in iran, especially in the city of urmia. recently, some studies claimed the presence of methanol in different types of herbal distillates. methanol is a highly toxic compound which can cause acute or chronic toxicity in humans. acute poisoning with methanol can cause different comp...

frequency of medication errors and its reporting according to self- report by nurses in hospitals of khoy city shams sh[1], bagherieh f[2], feizi a[3], baghaei r[4], hashemlo l[5] received: 4 may , 2012 accepted: 19 jun , 2012  abstract:background & aims: medication errors are one of the important challenges of health care systems worldwide. it is also one of the threatening factors of patient ...

GIS-based ordered weighted averaging and Dempster–Shafer methods for landslide susceptibility mapping in the Urmia Lake Basin, Iran Bakhtiar Feizizadeh a b , Thomas Blaschke a & Hossein Nazmfar c a Department of Physical Geography, Centre for Remote Sensing and GIS, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran b Department of Geoinformatics (Z_GIS), University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria c Department ...