by decreasing of sturgeon stocks in the caspian sea, the culture of different sturgeon species especially huso huso was increased in iran. under stress conditions sturgeon can easily be infected by several opportunistic pathogens. in june 2011, mortality happened in 25-28°c water temperature, in one of the most important cultured sturgeon farms in mazandaran province in the north of iran. the m...

increased unemployment and rising incidence of divorce are instances of a risky society that can affect women and men’s decisions about family formation. the present study aims to investigate the relationship between the indicators of risky society and the mean age at first marriage among women and men in iran. the paper uses the district-level data from the 2011 iranian census. the results sho...

Fourteen species of the genus Empis Linnaeus were collected and identified from Iran. Empis (Lisssempis) guilanensis Kazerani & Shamshev sp. nov. is described and illustrated from Guilan province in north central Iran. The following seven species were recorded from Iran for the first time: E. (Euempis) tessellata Fabricius, 1794; E. (Pachymeria) mediterranea (Loew, 1864); E. (P.) obscuripes (Lo...

We describe a new species of mite from Iran--Reticulolaelaps hallidayi Joharchi, Nemati & Babaeian sp. nov. (Acari: Laelapidae). The new species was collected in a nest of Tapinoma sp. (Hymnoptera: Formicidae) in Taleghan city, Alborz Province and in soil in Khuzestan province in southwestern Iran. Reticulolaelapsfaini is reported for the first time from Iran. The genus Reticulolaelaps is redes...

Primary hydatid disease of the spleen is rarely reported. We describe the first report of primary hydatid disease of the spleen which was diagnosed by ultrasonography-guided fine needle aspiration (FNA). A 25-year-old female from Fars province, Iran, presented with left flank pain one week prior to admission. Abdominal ultrasonography showed a large cystic lesion, 8 cm in diameter at the spleni...

background: sleep apnea is associated with increased risk ofdiabetes mellitus. however, no studies have compared sleep apneasymptoms in diabetic patients and their first degree relatives.the purpose of our study was to investigate high risk for sleepapnea syndrome, in diabetics and their first degree relatives forprevention of diabetes in family.methods: as a part of a cohort study, all of diab...

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 ...

Background: For every pregnant woman, it is possible to have a child with chromosomal abnormalities. Although this possibility is not very high, by performing screening tests and considering the mother's background factors, we can largely realize the real extent of this possibility. Many comorbidities (like high blood pressure, diabetes, and obesity) and high-risk exposures (like alcohol consu...