Parcel delivery is a complex logistic service, as it serves many small or medium-sized customers who may send or receive parcels. Modeling such delivery system needs to integrate two different research areas of hub location and vehicle routing. As it totally depends on the network and the linkage of the nodes, in this paper, some door-to-door service providers are taken into account to provide ...

Background and Objectives: Kurdistan Province has always been one of the areas of interest in national disease control programs due to a high number of human brucellosis cases. This study was conducted to explore some of the epidemiological indexes and the trend of the incidence of human brucellosis in this area from 2009 to 2016.   Methods: The target population of this cross-sectional study...

The current study explores the perceived quality of life of Syrian refugees who have entered the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Two hundred and seventy participants residing in refugee camps in the Erbil region in Kurdistan completed the WHOQOL-BREF, which measures Quality of Life (QOL) within four domains; physical, psychological, social relationships and environment. Syrian refugees in Kurdistan s...

Colorectal cancer (CRC) survival varies at individual and geographically level. This population-based study aimed to evaluating various factors affecting the survival rate of CRC patients in Kurdistan province.In a retrospective cohort study, patients diagnosed as CRC were collected through a population-based study from March 1, 2009 to 2014. The data were collected from Kurdistan's Cancer Regi...

Background: Procrastination is a common phenomenon among people as well as in the workplace and among employees in organizations who spend time with delays in completing some tasks and some have made this time their way of life. Method: This research is applied in terms of purpose and the research design is descriptive correlation. The statistical population is the staff of the Rural Cooperati...

introduction jet stream is strong narrow current concentrated by strong vertical and lateral wind shears (vasantha et al, 2002). according to world meteorological organization nomenclature, jet stream formed when the speed of wind greater than 60 knots or 30 m/s. the major characteristics of the troposphere and lower stratosphere in the vicinity of jet streams were pointed out by a group of met...