Semiran city-castle consists of a series monuments dated in the 10th century AD1, located on banks Qezel Owzan River, north-western Iran. On this river, Sefid-rud Dam has been built (1956-1962), behind which lake developed. At time its dewatering, it turned landscape into peninsula, causing significant damage to ancient sites. The following study presents results an archaeological survey, made ...

Diatoms samples in Zayandeh Rood Dam Lake were taken in four stations from surface, 0.5 and 3 m depths of water in three replicate by Nansen sampler. Additional samples were taken from the surface with plankton net. Diatoms samples fixed with 4% formaldehyde and were concentrated and identified using microscope at 400 x. Salinity, NO3, PO4 and SO4 were measured using standard methods (APHA). In...

 Background: As a major responsibility, health authorities must control rational prescription of drugs (RUD). A way to analyze the regional status of drug prescription is the WHO’s recommended indices. The purpose of the study was to determine the status of drug prescriptions in pharmacies of healthcare centers under the authority of Tehran University of Medical Sciences based on the WHO indice...

We discuss a figured pin from Shahdad, previously well known but published with a partial and unsatisfactory drawing.  More detailed observations and a new, more realistic recording of this important artifact reconsider its stylistic and iconographic links with the imagery of the Halil Rud civilization and the eastern Iranian Plateau in general, and, at its opposite cultural poles, with Mesopot...

DING WANG,∗†† XIANFENG ZHANG,∗ KEXIONG WANG,∗ ZHUO WEI,∗ BERND WÜRSIG,† GILLIAN T. BRAULIK,‡ AND SUSIE ELLIS§ ∗Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China †Texas A&M University, 4700 Avenue U, Building 303, Galveston, TX 77551, U.S.A. ‡Downstream Research Group, 3950 S. Fletcher Avenue, Amelia Island, FL 32034, U.S.A. §Conservation International, 1919 M Street, S...

In Australia, Ross River virus (RRV) is predominantly identified and managed through passive health surveillance. Here, the proactive use of environmental datasets to improve community-scale public health interventions in southeastern Tasmania is explored. Known environmental drivers (temperature, rainfall, tide) of the RRV vector Aedes camptorhynchus are analysed against cumulative case record...

The main responsibility for the rational use of drugs (RUD) in children belongs to parents. aim this study was determine knowledge and awareness level parents about RUD children. included literate volunteer with no learning disability. drug scale (RDUS), developed by Demirtas, modified assess parents' (higher score indicates higher level). Questionnaires which all questions were not answered ex...

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