The evolution of building codes typically produce design provisions that are expected to create safer and more accurate designs. We as engineers expect building codes to advance the state of the art with each successive edition. The 2009 International Building Code (IBC) and the Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete (ACI 318-08) have significant revisions affecting the design of ti...

BACKGROUND Population health and disease profiles are diverse across Iran's neighboring countries. Borrowing the results of the country-level Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors 2010 Study (GBD 2010), we aim to compare Iran with 19 countries in terms of an important set of population health and disease metrics. These countries include those neighboring Iran and a few other cou...

BACKGROUND Skin cancers are the most common cancers around the world. Cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM) is the malignancy of melanocytes that are mainly located in the skin and mucous membranes. OBJECTIVE This study tried to evaluate the incidence and mean survival time of cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM) in Yazd, Iran. It seems that the epidemiology and clinical aspects of CMM in Iran are...

Background & aim: The difference in the incidence of population transition provinces Iran is accompanied by differences indicators aging them. purpose present study was to determine main causes death elderly country.

Professional ethnography did not enter Iran until the late fifties. For a variety of reasons which are largely nonIranian and non-anthropological the anthropologists who have worked in Iran since then have concentrated their attention on pastoral nomads, and little work of any anthropological significance has been done in the village sector of Iranian society. My general interest in the histori...

morphometric differentiations may explain biogeographic distinctions among populations of a given species. the possibility of morphometric distinctions between two populations of eurygaster maura l. collected from the northeast (golestan province) and the northwest (azarbayejan province) of iran was examined using principal component analysis over 25 body measurements (eight absolute and 17 pro...

introduction chronic hepatitis b virus (hbv) infection is one of the most important health problems worldwide with a high rate of morbidity and mortality. it is a major risk factor for cirrhosis and liver cancer. currently, iran is located in the intermediate hbv zone; however, recent studies have provided some evidence indicating an epidemiological change in the country. the aim of this study ...

Background: The outbreak of COVID-19 has caused a devastating pandemic scenario in the world. mortality rate increased and new socio-economic challenges are emerging. Millions gloves, gowns, face masks, shields used daily to prevent airborne transmission facilitate treatment COVID-19. Mismanagement these wastes can lead concerns due their contamination potential. A comprehensive plan improve ma...

Background: Bladder cancer is one of the most common cancers worldwide and also in Iran. Understanding bladder epidemiology great value for policymakers assists prevention early detection disease. Objectives: The aim present study was to report national subnational incidence trends Iran between 2003 2015. Methods: This investigated age-standardized rates (ASIRs) per annum from 2015 using data r...