Measurements of Pb, Cu, Zn, As, Ni, Hg, and Fe heavy metals and major elements and components such as Ca, HCO3, SO4, Na, K, Mg and Cl in soluble rain fractions were performed on rainwater collected at Arak plain during the rainy seasons of 2012. Concentrations of the heavy metals in the soluble fractions decreased for Fe, Pb, Zn, Ni, Cu, As and Hg, respectively and the major elements and compon...

Objectives: Due to the importance of social support and healthy lifestyle, this study aims evaluate relationship perceived with health-promoting lifestyle in women who participated national breast cancer early detection program. Methods: In cross-sectional study, 1000 participating program Arak, Iran were selected from 16 health centers using a convenience sampling method. Two questionnaires Pe...

background and objectives: hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection is a worldwide concern and it is the major cause of liver disease. several genotypes of the hcv have been reported from different regions of the world. the determination of the hcv genotypes is important for the prediction of response to antiviral treatment and clinical outcomes. so, hcv genotyping in each region is of great importanc...

The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 led to many changes people’s lifestyles and governments’ policies worldwide. In education area, there has been an increase use online learning due necessity social distancing interruption transmission information. present study aimed determine differences between in-person systems regarding teachers’ perceptions educational knowledge pedagogical sk...

In order to identify drought tolerant chickpea genotypes, an experiment was conducted in the west of Iran, during 2007-2009 cropping seasons. Several selection indices were used to illustrate genotypic differences in response to drought stress. The results of combined analysis of variance showed that year, genotype, stress conditions and their interaction effects were highly significant. Correl...

A survey was carried out to investigate the prevalence of hard tick species (Acari: Ixodidae) on cattle in Mazandaran province, Iran. A total of 953 ticks were collected from 86 infested cattle during activating seasons of ticks during 2004-2005. Nine species were identified: Boophilus annulatus (51.3%), Rhipicephalus bursa (16.8%), Haemaphysalis punctata (6.3%), Ixodes ricinus (6.8%), Hyalomma...

Background and Aim Sciatica is one of the most common diseases peripheral nervous system may be caused by pressure on sciatic nerve. Due to fact that piriformis muscle located near nerve, spasm put nerve cause sciatica consequently syndrome. The present study aims investigate effect core stability exercises pain inflammation patients with Methods & Materials This a randomized clinical trial...

in order to study the yield and growth indices of spring safflower as double cropping, an experiment was carried out in 2007 at the research farm of faculty of agriculture, yasouj university, iran. the experiment was a factorial based on randomized complete block design with three replications. factors included of combination of four sowing dates (may 16, june1, june 16 and july 2) and four cul...

introduction the city population, in particular at the industrialized cities and centers of provinces, has increased dramatically in iran during recent decades. arak city is among of those industrialized cities as a centers of markazi province which has experienced a fast increase in population. this changes in population numbers tend to increase in consuming water resources as well as increasi...