1. Dept. of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran 2. Minimally Invasive Surgery Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3. Dept. of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 4. Dept. of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Publi...

Aflatoxin M1 (AFM1) is a category of poisonous compounds found in milk and dairy products. The target of our research is to determine incidence and risk assessment AFM1 through the consumption of cheese in Hamadan province of Iran. Seventy cheese samples including cream cheese (n = 30) and Iranian white cheese (n = 40) were collected from different regions of Hamadan province, Iran and tested f...

empirical models are important tools for relating field-measured biophysical variables to remotely sensed data. regression analysis has been a popular empirical method of linking these two types of data to estimate variables such as biomass, percent vegetation canopy cover, and bare soil. this study was conducted in a semi-arid rangeland ecosystem of qazvin province, iran. this paper presents t...

Use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and sewage sludge in agriculture lands caused the increase of heavy metals concentration in the soils in many parts of the world. The purpose of this article is studying the impacts of agricultural activities on the accumulation of Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Ni and Pb in the soil. The soil samples were taken by systematic method from agriculture fields with cultivat...

Background and aims: Hemodialysis (HD) is considered as the main method of renal replacement therapy (RRT) for end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients in many countries including Iran. Given the limited number of epidemiological studies in this regard at the provincial level across the country, the present study aimed to describe the demographic and clinical characteristics of ESRD patie...

We examine relationships between landscape scale measurements of rangeland complexity and cattle stocking rates in Kansas. Rangeland complexity was characterized using Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) satellite imagery and the USGS National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD). Satellite Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) values were summed over the 2002 growing-season and then ...

brucellosis is a widespread zoonotic disease causing considerable economic and public health problems. despite animal vaccination, brucellosis remains endemic in some areas such as iran, especially in the western iranian province of hamadan. we sought to detect some of the most common virulence-associated genes in brucella isolated from human blood cultures to determine the prevalence of some v...